Consider this me shouting from the rooftop ...

[mc_mike]

In case you couldn't ruddy hear my smile across the far recesses of the good ol' UK, let me catch you up:

Yesterday morning, as I'd the bloody incredible fortune of waking up next to my gorgeous girlfriend and I was thinking how sodding brilliant it'd be to wake up next to her all ruddy the time, a ring found it's way into my possession. Being a sharp wizard, I seized the opportunity and took the risk to make the brilliance permanent. Jammy bastard I am, Padma agreed.


What? Couldn't hear it? You're needing me to say it again? No, don't ruddy mind if I do.

Padma and I are engaged.


Well wishes, bottles of champagne, good-natured heckling, and other gifts and goodies offering congratulations are more than appreciated and expected from those who know who they are.

Comments

IO to MacDougal ONLY

[http://users.livejournal.com/mike_corner_/]

Relax, MacDougal. I've no burning desire to practise polygamy so I'll be holding my tongue well and good.

You talked Whistler into it, did you? He's agreed to a couple years of this, yeah?

IO to Michael ONLY

[http://users.livejournal.com/_morag/]

I knew you were intelligent - when you allow yourself to show it, anyway.

Years? Not ruddy likely! I'm hoping we can put an end to it within a few months at the very most.

IO to MacDougal ONLY

[http://users.livejournal.com/mike_corner_/]

Ha ha.

I know Padma and I're engaged, but we're not getting married in a few months and I've no plans to quit tutouring Douglas and Minna. What's going to happen to ol' Mr Quidditch if you're involved in a fake relationship with your mate?

IO to Michael ONLY

[http://users.livejournal.com/_morag/]

That's just the point. We'll let Mum get used to you being engaged - it's too bad they don't cry bans like they used to, I reckon that'd settle her! - and let her think Kevin and I've gotten serious. Then once she's seen that you and Padma are a cert, Kevin and I can 'break it off' as far as she's concerned, and if Oliver and I are still dating, I can tell her that I'm seeing him a bit after that. I'm hardly going to tell Oliver about this rubbish, though!