I’ve met Fiona!

My brother has this girlfriend. Now this is Quite Big News for several reasons. Firstly he is 30 this year and still lives at home and has not to my knowledge had a girlfriend since Kelly Chapman when we were at middle school! Secondly there was this theory doing the rounds (well OK Ady thought) he might be gay. Thirdly, well it just brings out the annoying big sister in me and despite being 32, married and with two children of my own the temptation to sing songs about Frazer and Fiona up a tree is just toooo great! 🙂

So we’ve known that Fiona exists for a couple of weeks now. Dad told us about her first and then I quizzed Frazer about her and he was all newly in love and gushing about her. Now they have spent practically every night for the last month either at my parents or at her place together so it all seems a bit grown up and serious. And frankly my biggest worry is for my children – if Frazer ever had kids they would imediately usurp my children in my parent’s affections and I bet they’d send them to proper school and not take them to youth hostels in Scotland and fields in Suffolk! And it would make Christmas even more expensive! 😉

So my parents have met Fiona and in Mum’s eyes she’s quickly gone from ‘Fiona’ said in hushed and awed tones as in ‘Fiona – the one who is going to take Frazer off my hands, sort him out once and for all, make him leave home, start eating a wider diet than McCains Oven Chips and toast and maybe give me grandchildren with Davies as a last name instead of just a first one!’ to ‘That Fiona’ said with utter disdain and all hope dashed. Apparently she wears scruffy shoes and utterly failed to engage with my Mum in conversation about favourite baby names. Or something.

This afternoon I popped round the shop for some poppadums and lemonade and there was the usual group of teenagers hanging around the shop trying to persuade people going in to buy cigarettes and cinzano for them and as I went in a saw a scruffy looking woman looking a bit shifty and sort of skulking about inside the shop. I stood next to this bloke who was standing infront of the poppadums and he looked at me and said hello and I realised it was Frazer. At which point I realised the scruffy woman was standing rather close to us and was about to take Frazer’s arm and lead him away from her incase she was a loony stalker type when he introduced as us. Yep indeed this was Fiona! She’s clearly very shy as she sort of muttered ‘hello’ and then sped off into another aisle leaving us to chat for a while. We then queued up together and she continued to wander round the shop coming over occassionally to rest her head on his shoulder and ask if he wanted red or white wine (wine! wine? my brother doesn’t drink wine!). But anyway she seems to have had a very positive effect on him. He was very much ‘the man’ putting his arm round her and doing lots of ‘looking after her’ type body language. He’s actually quite quiet, shy and lacking in confidence so I guess he was never going to pair up with someone loud, overbearing or OTT really. Hopefully I’ll get to meet her again in some other situation. Ady was dead jealous though when I burst in the front door yelling ‘I’ve seen Fiona! Na na na nanah!!!’. My family, as mature as Hugh’s group of friends when Julia Roberst comes to dinner! 🙂

In other news today, Dad came over and teased Tarly then he and Ady went to get some logs. Tarly played with some scales, a calculator and the toy till. I started my career as a checkout operator 🙂 Her and I also did some reading today although we’ve not tried 100EL lessons yet. Then she brought out all her Dora books – I think she has about 12 – so we looked at them.

Davies has played with the geomags for ages, watched W&G, did lots of drawings on his easel and cultivated a whole new range of gestures and facial expressions to use while wearing his glasses 🙂 They really suit him actually, he has his old fogey / mad professor / quirky ways anyway and they sort of help! He only wore them for about ten minutes but there’s certainly no reluctance to do so.

And Ady, well he chopped wood!

Dad hung around for lunch and then headed off, Ady and the kids spent ages bouncing on space hoppers while I read various things about feminism and pondered long and deep on it. Then got bored of that and did some more trivial blog quizzes! 🙂 I also made snickerdoodles again which went down just as well as last weekend.

We also watched a Michael Jackson show on VH1 so we were singing along and Davies was trying to recreate some of the dancing 🙂 Good old Jacko eh! 🙂