Friends, Lovers and Chocolate

13th November - OH MY GOD - ONLY 5 DAYS TO GO!!!

I have just finished the latest Isabel Dalhousie book - titled as above - they are so well written! I love her character (not least because she is of a similar age to me) but I equally despise it, because she won't act upon her love for Jamie (15 years her junior - ring any bells?). To be fair, I think Jamie only sees her as a close friend..but I live in hope that this friendship will develop into something greater. Why shouldn't I want everyone to be as happy as me?

FRIENDS

So my dear friends, Bruce and Trev, invited me for dinner on Saturday. How nice to have friends to look after you when you need it. The meal was brilliant (Trev is an excellent cook) with lasagne and Florida Lime Pie - the latter being gorgeous, but looking a lot like all the "pies" thrown on tv!

Of course, the evening started off with red wine. Then we hit the gin - yes, that is the amount of gin (BEFORE TONIC) in each glass. The meal would not be right without a decent port passed to the left and had to be finished with a nice cuppa South African tea. All of which meant I got substantially merry and managed to text Kat a drunken I love you, without remembering it the next day.
A while ago I gave Nim (one of our kittens) to B & T as she was not fitting in with our busy houshold and needed some individual tlc. Turned out she'd been getting more than her share of tlc from the local Toms - but that's another story. They always make out that she's this friendly little pussy and butter wouldn't melt...please see family shot. However, I would like to draw your attention to a more insightful photograph, capturing the evil one's true nature...
We obviously had to play a few games. Sadly, the Pictionary Clinic could not open due to a lack of partner, so we played Rummicub and Verbositi - both of which were great fun. I seem to recall that I won both, but this may just be the happy drunk talking. We came up with some classic phrases, but Trev's "Blind Cinderella's ejaculating yetis' incest tortured her," must surely win the day. I can't wait to play them with Kat - I know he would really like them.

Not sure when we got out the underwear - these lovely items appear to belong to Bruce, who refused to model them! Trev told me the black zipped ones were never worn as they are for a medium sized gentleman...so I took them for my medium sized gentleman (nb we are not talking meat and two veg - that would need to be XXL!)



So a good night had by all - but the sight that met us on the table next morning was a little alarming and certainly open to misinterpretation!!!



LOVERS

So we only have a few more days apart.

It's been a struggle, particularly at the start when I seriously wondered if I would cope at all. I am sure Kat misses me, but he is in a new and exciting place with many interesting distractions. I found that as the weeks went on it got easier and, weirdly, I now feel like I did before I met him, but not a day goes by that I don't think of him and wish him here.

My saviour came in the form of a skype phone, which allows us to talk nearly every day and better than this, lets me see him too.

CHOCOLATE

I've asked best beloved to bring me back some American sweeties - or candy, as they like to refer to it.

You can actually buy all these on a British website for just under £23 (+ P&P), so I am hoping these will be substantially cheaper in the US of A. Sound good, don't they?

Here is my list!

1 pack of Reese's Cups
(Milk chocolate with a peanut centre)

1 bar of Hersheys Milk Chocolate
(Creamy, rich tasting Hershey milk chocolate)

1 pack of Hersheys Milk Duds 141g
(Caramel nuggets covered in a generous helping of Hershey milk chocolate)

1 pack of Hot Tamales
(Chewy cinnamon flavoured jelly beans)

1 bar of Hersheys Mr Goodbar
(Delicious creamy Hersheys milk chocolate with peanuts)

1 bar of Hersheys Milk Chocolate: Cookies 'n' Chocolate
(Lots of dark chocolate cookie pieces in every bite of Hershey milk chocolate)

1 bar of 3 Musketeers
(Smooth chocolate with a fluffy nougat centre. Similar to how a Milky Way used to be)

1 bar of Hersheys Whatchamacallit
(Similar to a Toffee Crisp but with peanut butter and subtle toffee caramel)

1 Hersheys kisses Bar
(Smooth creamy Hershey milk chocolate with chocolate cookie pieces)

1 bar of Hersheys S'mores
(A marshmallow and graham cracker centre smothered in Hersheys Milk Chocolate)

1 pack of Atomic Fireblast Candy
(Rich cinnamon flavour sugar candy)