Tomorrow marks the third anniversary for civil partnerships (they're gay marriage in all but name) in the UK and Wales. (Scots and Northern Irish registrars began one and two days earlier respectively).

Made me smile that the traditional gift for the third year of wedding is leather.

Nearly 60,000 Britons had entered a same-sex union, giving them legal rights virtually identical to those of married couples.

Is it rude not to send a leather gift to the government?