Hello SUMites

Over the last two weeks, Bryce and I have been staying in the north of England, in a town called Haworth. It is a bleak and spooky place.

It is famous for being the town where the 19^th-century ‘Bronte sisters’ lived: Emily, Anne and Charlotte Bronte. A family of writers, their novels are considered among the greatest in the history of English literature.

I love English literature; Bryce doesn’t. But, on arrival in Haworth, we had ten days ahead, we were staying in a little Victorian cottage filled with Bronte memorabilia, and there on the bookshelf were a few of the Bronte novels, calling out to be read.

“We have to each read a Bronte novel while we’re here!” I exclaimed, thinking he probably wouldn’t.

Well, blow me down, he went for it. He quietly reached for Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, donned his reading glasses, and settled into a corner with it. Looking over at him in amazement, I drew Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte off the shelf for myself, and curled up on the couch opposite. Thereafter, by lamplight every evening we’d sit there reading these books.

I was very impressed by my husband: It would SO not have been his choice to read that book, but once he opened it we started to connect about the Brontes and see Haworth in a new and different light. 

What’s more, he finished the book! I told him I was proud of him, and he smiled in a way where he looked quite pleased at the praise LOL.

I guess I’m sharing that story as I love the fact he read that book, and it was a lesson to me that it’s nice to give something a go that your partner wants you to.

Perhaps I’ll try a little harder to take an interest in his stuff too. I am writing as he lies here next to me watching a Formula One race!

Have you or your spouse ever tried a new hobby or interest for each other?

Love

Ann