You Look Wonderful Tonight Who: HMS Blood When: 26 September 2015 Where: North and Southbank, London Rating: Status: In Progress
He'd have preferred shamrocks arranged about thistles but the willows branches proved elegant and just as poetic. Delicate woody tendrils curled round single, rarest bud thistle the same way Miles Bletchley had curled round his heart. Roots grown so deep and entangled neither would survive the severe pruning required to extricate Scottish wild flower from willow's embrace. Tied with a ribbon of tartan, the thistle would bloom for only four hours before dying, just long enough to live through first half of couple's first properly "grown up" date.
Set to the task of planning a special evening - courtesy of Remy arranging a weekend pass home for adoptive son - Oliver had wracked his brain the first twenty four hours for ideas. It was important he do this properly, in the same way that young love always felt the only thing that mattered in the entire world.
His Miles. Center of the known universe and tonight, Oliver would make sure he felt that way.
So it was he'd be waiting for Miles at the Embankment Cafe, a charming outdoor eatery just off the tube. A secret garden, as it were, in the heart of London's Northbank, and at its center a young man waiting for the love of his life in jeans and blazer holding a single thistle.