Fourteen copies.
A decree nisi is not a divorce. It is a judge saying you may have one. Somebody then has to apply for the thing that ends the marriage, and until they do, you are married.
Nobody applied.
Desmond Ashby and Sabine Ashby were married in 2006 and they are married now and they were married on the fifteenth of March, 2025, when he stood in a register office at Vaudry and married me.
Which means I am not married and never have been. My son’s father is not my husband. The certificate in my drawer is void and has been since the day it was issued.
That is what I put beside fourteen plates at a birthday dinner.
When I found out.
The fourteenth of February, 2025.
Four weeks before the wedding.
It was in a box file in the spare room with the car paperwork, because that man has never filed anything correctly in his life.
