{"id":99209,"date":"2020-08-28T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=99209"},"modified":"2020-08-28T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:07:17","slug":"still-together-still-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/julia-roberts\/still-together-still-going-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Still together, still going strong…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Chris and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary so you may think that the title of this blog is a little odd – you\u2019d like to think he\u2019d still be the one after only a year as Mr & Mrs, but of course we\u2019ve been together longer, much longer, and there is a little story attached.<\/p>\n

We finally got married last year on the beach in Mauritius with just a small group of family and friends, as you can see above, after forty-one and a half years of living together and two children, which I talk about on this week\u2019s Inside QVC podcast, but more of that later. Unbeknown to me, Chris had asked our daughter, Sophie, who used to sing in a couple of different girl bands, to learn the words to a song which I wanted played at the wedding. She\u2019d never heard of You\u2019re Still the One by Shania Twain but she did an amazing job of performing it live (Chris was sitting in on drums) with one of the bands at the Maritim Resort where we got married.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

At the time that brought a tear to my eye, so imagine how choked-up I was when we unwrapped our anniversary gift from our children, who were our best man and bridesmaid on our big day, to find this. It\u2019s the song lyrics to You\u2019re Still the One, cut up into little hearts \u2013 how incredibly thoughtful and touching, particularly as the first wedding anniversary is traditionally the \u2018paper\u2019 anniversary. We both love it and it\u2019s already on the wall, along with a beautiful beaded heart that Chris got me.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

My present to him was less romantic! When we were staying at Debs Flint\u2019s place in Devon recently on our family holiday, we enjoyed several games of Jenga. I spotted this slightly different version of the game in our local gift shop and thought it was perfect. There is the added element of difficulty in only being able to remove the colour of block showing on the dice.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

The four of us enjoyed a couple of games after we\u2019d been out to lunch together and as you can see, Wilfie joined in too. He watched as blocks were removed, lifted his paw to attempt removing his chosen block with it, then changed his mind and used his teeth instead! I don\u2019t think you need to see the photograph of what happened next!!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

It was a different day from the one we had planned as, due to Covid 19 restrictions, we weren\u2019t able to have our mums to stay. Instead, we had a small gathering in our permitted \u2018bubbles,\u2019 which was hugely enjoyable. Not only did we have cards, pressies and champagne, we also had flowers.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

These sunflowers were courtesy of Dan and Katie, because Katie thought they would remind us of the sunshine from last year as it was such gloomy weather yesterday.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

The two of them also made us this gorgeous cake. I love the idea of using the seashell chocolates to decorate with to represent our beach wedding. With the fabulous company, I can honestly say it was a lovely way to mark our first anniversary.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Cake-making duty falls to Sophie and Amber on Sunday, which is Chris\u2019s birthday – don\u2019t tell him I told you, but he will officially be a pensioner!!!! The weather forecast looks quite promising, so we are hoping to host a socially-distanced barbecue of our \u2018family bubbles\u2019.<\/p>\n

It is of course Bank Holiday Weekend and we have an on-air event to celebrate it. If you use the code ALL3EZ at checkout on our website, you can get three interest free, Easy Pay instalments on everything. Tomorrow\u2019s Today’s Special Value is the Dyson<\/a> tower fan that I mentioned on last week\u2019s blog, and on Sunday it\u2019s the Shark<\/a> Duoclean Liftaway Vacuum Cleaner.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I\u2019m still on annual leave so won\u2019t be in for either, but I will be back on Tuesday, when we have a MarlaWynne<\/a> Today’s Special Value. It\u2019s a longline jersey tunic and comes in a good selection of autumnal colours \u2013 perfect to wear with my favourite MarlaWynne<\/a> leggings!!!<\/p>\n

So earlier, I briefly mentioned the Inside QVC podcast,<\/a> hosted by Will Gowing, which I\u2019m featured on this week. I was on one of the early ones (episode 4 to be precise, which is still available to listen to) but that was talking about the early days of QVC. This latest episode is about my life and work outside of QVC\u2026 my early life, including my battle with polio, my time as a dancer, how I met Chris and my move into television, amongst other things.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Do have a listen<\/a> if you like to know more about the people behind the smiles. Next week\u2019s podcast features Corinne Koolman, our Philosophy guest, which ties in nicely with next Sunday\u2019s Today’s Special Value.<\/p>\n

Just briefly, while on the subject of polio, an amazing milestone was reached on Tuesday of this week \u2013 the continent of Africa has been declared wild-polio free. When you consider that as recently as 1988, a thousand children a day were paralysed by polio, this is pretty incredible. Thanks to the huge immunisation programme, largely spear-headed by Rotary International, there is real hope that the world might become polio-free. I think it also gives cause for hope in our current worldwide situation.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it from me today. As I said, I\u2019m not on air, but you can join me tonight at 8 p.m. on Instagram Live (juliagroberts) or my JuliaRobertsTV Facebook page at 8 p.m. for the next few chapters of Life\u2019s a Beach and Then, before we move on to book 2 in the Liberty Sands trilogy next week.<\/p>\n

Enjoy your Bank Holiday weekend.
\nMuch love,
\nJulia x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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