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I am going to the civil partnership of one of my oldest friends, to his partner of 15 years, next week - and they've organised it up in the Highlands, in Ross-shire, not that far from Skye. In fact, we're going there on a day-trip the day after the partnership ceremony, which is happening on a boat.
All of which is very exciting and happy-making and totally wonderful, of course - except for the problem about: What do I do about a gift? Obviously, the pair of them having been living together for years and years and years, housewarming-style presents would be inappropriate. As would any presents which they'd have the problem of shifting back to Edinburgh. So...
...I bought them a fruit basket. A big fruit basket. I actually spent quite a while putting together The Perfect Fruit Basket (easy-eating fruit, oatcakes, cheese, fudge, nuts) only to discover that the company wouldn't deliver that day. Nor would the next company. Which it finally occurred to me was because of the Spring Bank Holiday in England and Wales on the Monday. So I found a company in Scotland, British Bouquets, and they do a spectacular-looking fruit hamper with cheese and oatcakes, to which I added a box of seashell chocolates. Whee. Sorted.
(Also, I am still not sufficiently over the change in the law - not just the Civil Partnership Act but the legislation that makes discrimination illegal: it was an extra fillip of satisfaction to e-mail the hotel that I wanted to send a civil partnership gift and could they put it in the couple's room, and to get a nice message back from the hotel manager saying they'd be delighted. (There have been a couple of extremely nasty incidents in the Highlands of gay men being literally turned away from guest houses: and a bunch more reported of hotel and guest house staff just being plain mean and rude, though not actually denying a same-sex couple a room/a double bed.) Obviously my friends wouldn't have picked a hotel to stay in where that would happen - they've stayed in that area before - but I'm still getting oh this is cool grins over it.)
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