Now we are one

Yet another anniversary: I've been "hanging out" with you for exactly one year today, Sam, having arrived in Sao Paulo to meet you on October 27, 2010. Feels like a hell of a lot longer to me, and probably like a lifetime to you. 5.44 am. I'm staring at the nearly completed Shard, through my bedroom window, our window, a giant lighthouse on the doorstep. There was a lot less of it, and the beacon less bright, when your journey began here in this cosy corner of a foreign field. January 17, 2010, according to some sources.