Time flies when you’re not updating a dlog, it seems – it’s been over three weeks since my last post, so now we’re preparing for a couple of deadlines that are rather imminent.

The first, and therefore most pressing, of these is the wedding list, which we promised would be finished by the end of this month. We then proceeded to do very little about it for a couple of weeks, so we’ve been dashing about looking for things to add to it at the last minute! Even as I type, Edith is updating the database with some of our final items, several of which are summer-related and therefore unavoidably ‘retrospective’ gifts.

The good news on the retrospective gift front is that, to make it a bit less of a giftless money-gathering exercise, and generally add a bit of ceremony to it, we’ve now prepared and published special printable gift envelopes, which you can cut out, fold up and stick together to give us! You’ll find the corresponding envelope linked to from each retrospective gift’s information page.

Meanwhile, our other equally self-imposed deadline is to prepare a newsletter to be sent out on 3 July, a month after the previous one and just two months before the wedding. This is proving a little difficult on account of the thinness on the ground of news, but we’re working on that too, with some more additions and updates to the web site, not to mention a zoolyweds executive committee meeting this Thursday (OK, it’s actually just Rosy visiting us). By this time next week we’ll have more news than BBC News 24 on a good day. Hopefully.