Over the cold winter on the sofa nights, ITV, Britain’s main commercial broadcaster, ran a documentary series featuring the activities of the City of Westminster’s Register Office where births, deaths and marriages are recorded. It was a distracting little show, a funny and touching fly-on-the-wall human interest fest for a chilly midwinter’s evening that helped the digestion and wasn’t too taxing on the brain. There is something rather dignified and valiant about the ordinary people – the hatch, match and dispatch squad – who deal daily with the relentless cycle of life that we must all face and the relentless cycle of emotion that goes with it. Veteran registrar of 28 years, Patricia Gordon, confessed that she was none too comfortable with the notion of civil partnerships. But, through friendship and by example, fellow registrar Tommy helped her see the light; now she can’t wait for him to find his own soul mate so she can do the honours. And guess what? Patricia officiated at our Civil Partnership in 2008. Here is she doing the business:
Thank you for changing your mind, Patricia.
Can you see I’m smiling?
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I’m seeing it 🙂
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I would have liked to seen this series as my mum was a registrar of births, deaths and marriages for many years.
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Annie, you should be able to pick it up on catch-up on the ITV player.
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Planning our own union for summer. After 20 years…I like your simplicity. Did you have a bash?
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Congratulations. It’s been a long time coming. Yes, we had a big do afterwards with family and friends. Here’s the post I did about it a couple of years ago https://perkingthepansies.com/2011/03/03/second-time-around/
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I just threw some rice from Canada. 🙂
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Ta very much. Probably landed somewhere near Iceland! 😀
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