All change

Photo: a “new build “up the road is guaranteed to have one of the most spectacular views in the area.
 
I rang my brother in Wales this morning and we reminisced about the changes to our local town, https://visitcrickhowell.walesCrckhowell, how it is now gentrified with few local people still living there.
We talk about other changes too like the rising cost of living.
He had just received his oil bill. It had shot up by £200. (We are on a fixed tariff so we are immune for a while).
He tells me of a wedding they have been to of a distant family member. Why wasn’t I told about it?
 
We didn’t like to tell you, he says. “ She married a woman.” The penny drops. The first gay marriage in the family in rural farming Wales. Yes I could see they would have not found it easy to talk about it.
 
No I am not surprised, I tell him, everything has changed these days.   Did not artist  Tracy Emin  ( 

 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/24/tracey-emin-the-stone-i-married-is-beautiful-and-dignified-it-will-never-let-me-down )marry a stone in the garden of her house in the south of France and what about and that Australian  guy  Joseph Guiso who married, Honey, his Labrador? (https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/man-marries-his-honey-a-dog/image-gallery/a679661e78d029777a90848ed2f624e2?page=1

)
or the South American woman who married herself? ( https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-who-married-herself-now-25519160 )

 
Decide not to tell  him about a male friend of mine from art college days  who is now known as Poppy.