This is my favourite photo in the whole world.

@verph11 asked us to share a photo to win 5SBD, and although I'd rather stay out of the prize pool (please give it to someone who needs it more!) I couldn't resist sharing this.

When Jamie and I first met 15 years ago, we decided within three days that we would get married and live in country England (impulsive, huh?). So I went home to Australia, sold all my stuff (which wasn't muc), packed two suitcases, one for my five year old and one for me.

We arrived in England with not much money and this crazy future in front of us, where we were going to move in with a man Jarrah had never met and who lived in a truck on some land near Brighton. This photo is the first time my boy met his future step father. It was summer, and a warm one, where the bumble bees were buzzing in the Hawthorn trees. In this photo, my lover is telling my beautiful son about whales and how many men can fit on their tongue. The little one is eating cheese, crackers and cucumber, which I'd carried in my backpack down from London on the train. J. was suprised we'd made it there all by ourselves as we didn't know the area - or the country!

When I excitedly send this photo to my parents, as if this grand meeting between boy and man had gone swimmingly, I didn't think about what kind of story this picture would tell. The discarded sofa the empty wine bottle, the fire pit - it wasn't a particularly promising courtship, I confess, on the surface, but it was electric and full of hope and promise.

A year later my parents flew over from Australia to attend our wedding. My little boy proudly carried the ring down the aisle on an old red velvet cushion we had bought from the charity shop. Jamie became "Steppie", short for stepfather, which seemed a good a name as any. I would love to reenact this photo one day! I love it because I look it and feel that sense of trepidation that I wasn't doing the right thing by my boy. I was though - he ended up with a blissfully happy mother, with a decent man for a (step) father.

I'm as in love as ever, and now all of that seems a distant dream.

What is your favourite photo in the whole wide world?

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