Timely

So I've just been on the phone to Quirkie. For those of you who read her blog and have been wondering where she is, her return is imminent - and yes, Bill Jr arrived safe and sound. She just hasn't been able to blog because of me - yes, me! That's the kind of crazy power I wield. She felt it would be wrong, since we are actual real-life friends, to announce the birth of her fourth-born via a blog without telling me first. Neither of us are spectacularly good at regular contact. What she didn't realise was that I'd been obsessively checking her blog thinking that if I couldn't get hold of her in person she would surely announce something there.

We had a lovely conversation until it occurred to her that it had been lo some fifteen or twenty minutes since the school bell had rung and her other offspring would be waiting for her by the side of some lonely, dusty road with only the occasional passing tumbleweed and pervert for company.

Screaming with horror at this realisation she abruptly hung up in my ear. But that's okay. We'll pick up where we left off in six months or so. If not, then no doubt we'll catch up at Bill Jr's 21st.