Imaginary Friends

If you are Em or Michelle please feel free to consider this blog post a piece of creative writing. For the rest of you simply feel envious that we got to see Joyce 🙂

I woke up this morning and with a lazy stretch thought happily to myself ‘Joyce is coming today’ :). Then I realised just what the implications of this were and leapt out of bed with a ‘JOYCE IS COMING TODAY!!!!!’ feeling. I recalled with a sense of nostalgia (and mounting panic) the last time she was here way back….(you may want to do that Scooby Doo going back in time whooshy thing before you click here)

So I did much the same as that time really and focussed on clearing a surface in the downstairs bathroom.

We then nipped to Sainsburys for various supplies and I was still emptying the ashtrays on the Titanic when Joyce and Bob arrived. And Maisie, mustn’t forget Maisie :).

Bob took Maisie off for a long walk along the downs, Davies did the honourable thing and also left us to it but Scarlett was less good at taking the hint, or even the very specific demand and insisted on hanging around for much of the afternoon ‘But I don’t want to go in the other room, I want to stay here and listen to your conversation!’ 😆

Had a lovely, lovely few hours catching up on all sorts. Joyce spent a good while talking to Davies about hypnosis which he has long been interested in and had recalled from a long while back that Joyce knew about. 🙂

Bob returned and noted that the last time we met in the flesh he’d not ever have expected me to be a Professor of Chickens (title bestowed on me by my friend’s son :)) in the future. In those days I was far too busy shopping! 😉

Ady came home from work, wine o’clock was declared and he produced a very nice, fit for twice the amount of people dinner including a trough of garlic bread ;). Davies and Scarlett took the opportunity to play out in the garden til it was nearly dark and then we waved them off with hankies on their way to get back to the campsite before the curfew of gatelocking time 😆