A Midsummer Night’s Dream and cast Joy, who’d just returned from university, as quick-witted Helena. With our shared sense of humour and love of Shakespeare we were soon inseparable.
One evening we were sitting on the sofa in Joy’s flat watching a Kenneth Branagh movie, our eyes met and we both experienced the same all-body falling sensation.
We kissed and I knew in that moment we’d spend the rest of our lives together. On New Year’s Eve 2002, I asked Joy if she’d be my wife, and in 2004 we got married at a castle in Kent, with Joy wearing this fabulous Lord of the Rings-style dress.
When our daughter Lily, now 13, was born three years later, followed by our son Ben, now 10, in 2010, I was the happiest man in the world.Looking back, our.
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