{"id":1639,"date":"2017-02-14T14:56:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:26","slug":"louise-and-mark-we-have-so-many-wonderful-memories-made-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2017\/02\/14\/louise-and-mark-we-have-so-many-wonderful-memories-made-in-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise and Mark- we have so many wonderful memories made in Cardiff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Louise <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">(MPharm 2005)<\/span> met her husband Mark<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> (BSC 2004)<\/span> in their first year at Cardiff University.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I met Mark in February of our first year and our first date was on Valentine&#8217;s Day when he cooked for me in his flat in Talybont, how romantic! \u00a0Mark went all out and served a Tesco Chinese ready meal that he cooked in the oven, rather than the microwave, followed by a Sara Lee chocolate gateaux all washed down with 2 bottles of red wine!<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from Cardiff University Mark worked for an accountancy firm in Birmingham and I moved to Stockport and worked initially at Stepping Hill Hospital to complete my pre registration training year before then qualifying as a pharmacist in 2006. I then got a job at University Hospital North Staffordshire where I completed my postgraduate diploma. Mark and I spent three years travelling up and down the M6 every weekend before I moved to the University Hospital Birmingham. We were lucky to both get a 6 month sabbatical in 2010 to go traveling around South America and South East Asia, before returning to our jobs in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>We now live in Solihull along with our one year old daughter. Mark works in finance for an energy company and I work as Lead Pharmacist Women&#8217;s and Neonatal Services at Birmingham Women&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>We got married 10 years later in 2012 in Florence and now have a beautiful 1 year old daughter. I can&#8217;t believe Valentines day 2016\u00a0will be 15 years since our first date, we have so many wonderful memories made in Cardiff!&#8217;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2017\/02\/louise-and-mark.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1643\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1643 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2017\/02\/louise-and-mark-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"louise and mark\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2017\/02\/louise-and-mark-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2017\/02\/louise-and-mark-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2017\/02\/louise-and-mark-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2017\/02\/louise-and-mark.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louise (MPharm 2005) met her husband Mark (BSC 2004) in their first year at Cardiff University. \u2018I met Mark in February of our first year and our first date was [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1080,"featured_media":1645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,38,1],"tags":[126,127],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff-cariad","category-our-alumni","category-uncategorized","tag-cardiffcariad","tag-valentines"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}