“A nice thing about marrying a man from abroad is getting to show him around my hometown (London) while feeling like a pro, and rediscovering my favourite places all over again. I get to enjoy these with the addition of the husband’s unique perspectives, including all the oddities that he seems to notice. The things that draw his attention! Now I’m quite a fan of street art and graffiti, but I didn’t tend to notice those small, itty pieces of street art and motifs… you know… those ones that always seem to be placed on top of other, older works? Well they literally didn’t catch my attention, so I used to walk on without batting an eyelid.
Reader, those itty bits of street art are the very things that husband dearest notices, and loves to notice – wherever we go. He’ll spot a motif once, then manage to find the same motif all around a city, I guess some of them are like the artist’s signatures, others a recurrent character, painted in amusing, unusual places. The joy that finding these things gives husband dearest is quite contagious, because now I find myself doing the same! Take this cute ostrich-type little guy we spotted on a quiet street in Barcelona while trying to find the nearest Metro station. Husband spotted him again in the market area, then after that just outside the gothic quarter.
Well anyway, now as I take the husband to some of my favourite spots in London, and as we discover new places together, I’ve learned to look out for the small things. Sometimes they make me smile, sometimes they make my day. Thank you husband, I’m becoming like you.”
The Wife