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An interesting development

I omitted to mention my New Year’s Eve, didn’t I? An entertaining evening chez Tall Andy and Kitten. An evening of Wii gaming, alcohol (for others - I was driving) and company. For reasons I can’t go into here (just in case) I spent a fair amount of time on Tuesday morning thinking of puppies.

I’d left early as I’d arranged to meet some friends at the Bure Valley Railway for the 11 o’clock Mince Pie Special. A good start to the year and we resolved to make this an annual event. Shame the weather was rather pants.

I don’t recall doing anything much yesterday but today I popped over to Bedfordshire to look at a shop which specialised in wargames stuff (I’d seen their website and calculated that postage and packing for what I fancied wouldn’t be far short of the cost of fuel there and back). Managed to pick up some special paint which’ll make painting my miniatures quick and effective.

Now that you’ve dozed off, I’ll drop the bombshell in the form of a text message exchange.

14:20 Are you back at work now?

14:21 Yeah where r u

14:24 I’m on my Christmas hols, but there’s a big, Stubby-shaped hole in my life. I was hoping you were still off so we could do something tomorrow. Oh well.

I waited, eagerly, for the reply.

Nothing.

Oh dear. I’d clearly gone too far (and my use of “big” wasn’t my wisest choice of word). Ah well.

But wait - six hours later my phone announced “Woo hoo! The mail’s here!”

20:14 Afraid not i’m back at work. U busy the weekend. we could do something then.

I checked and it definitely came from Stubby.

20:15 I’m free. What would you like to do?

20:16 Don’t mind. I’m busy sat lunch time but we could in 2 coast or something sun perhaps. U any ideas.

20:17 I’ll check the forecast and see what’s on.

Is her resolve finally weakening? Will 2008 be the year in which there’ll actually be some interesting content in rARsh? Am I (as I suspect) reading far too much into this?