Well, there's another update and I'm mixed as to how I feel.
X turned up an hour late. I said nothing again and opened the door to let DD4 in. I was intending to blank him but he asked me if he could have my old sofa.
Obviously with him questioning me I had to answer, so I told him he could have it.
He looked through my front window to check out my new sofa and then asked me for a screwdriver to undo the wooden frame of the old sofa. This made me laugh, as anyone who knows me knows I NEVER have any tools in my house.
I told him I've got one but it's too small. He asked me to fetch it. I did so, and then he got why I was laughing because you really can't do anything with a screwdriver that small.
He asked me for a knife. I sighed. He apologised. I went and got the knife and he tried that and failed. He said what happened to your tool kit? I said I lost it. He laughed at me.
Another thing people should know is I ALWAYS lose tools, keys, pens etc. I put my credit card through the washing machine once by mistake, but it still works, LOL.
I told him he needs a drill. He said he didn't need a drill for that, he would have to come back and bring his tools. He asked how many days it's been outside, I said 4. He asked me if it stormed on the sofa. I said yes, trying not to smile because he chose the sofa.
He said can I come round tomorrow with my tools? I said yes. Then my ankle gave way and I said 'ouch' and sat down on my doorstep. He asked what the problem is. I told him my ankle is hurting. He asked what I have done to it. I told him I twisted it yesterday whilst walking.
Then he started complaining about all my millions of rose bushes and how he nearly gets his throat cut by rose thorns every time he goes to my front door and that I should get the gardener to come round more.
I laughed and told him about the last time the gardener came round. He comes round unannounced, early in the morning and then knocks on my door asking me to sign his piece of paper.
Last time he did my garden, he knocked on the door while I was still in my dressing gown and said 'Do you want me to trim your bush, love?' So I said 'Pardon me?' and he said 'Your bush, do you want me to trim it?' I grinned at him and said 'No thank you, I prefer mine natural.'
Well, I told all this to X and we both fell about laughing.
I shouldn't have told him that, actually, but since we were talking about the gardener it just reminded me. I won't do that again, especially not with OW2 on the scene.
He told me that him and the girls are going to this music festival tomorrow, and then added that it's in Shipley park, which is down the road from my house.
I stated I wasn't going out (a statement that I am not going to the festival), and then he said see you tomorrow afternoon.
That's it, and I'm annoyed at myself that I dropped my ice queen routine.
