Living in sin? The World's moral compass is going to Hell in a hand cart.

As we say in Yorkshire ... "Livvin' o'er t'brush".

Yes, being from the east I hadn't heard of that until I had the good fortune to move west. I've been at it for eighteen years now, couldn't bare to lose the title.

When we visited tb's parents in South Africa for the first time, his father took great pleasure in shocking assorted people we were having to meet by introducing me as his "common law daughter in law".

It's amazing what we still take from pagan times.
Jumping over the broom (or brush) is still practised in many humanist wedding ceremonies.