Guest Posting from Elle

Yes.............. I finally arrived!!!

Clare is letting me put this guest posting up because I KNOW everyone will tease me for what happened yesterday so I thought I'd give you the laugh myself before the story takes on a life of its own and becomes some sort of folklore!! (Clare's already done all the jokes about haggis for tea!!!)

I set off nice and early, on what should have been a two and a half hour journey, knowing where I was going, but needing to check directions again for motorway exits. Don't ask me how, but between phone calls and just a cursory glance at the directions I ended up going the wrong way on the motorway and ended up almost in London!!!

So, the two and a half hour journey became six hours!!! Many thanks to DragonM for getting my message to clare to let her know I was going to be so late.....I didn't want her having visions of either something having happened to me, or my famous visits to police stations (it really only happened the once!) turning into an 'extended stay'.... cells....handcuffs......oooohhhhh lets not go there!!

Its lovely to see clare so relaxed, so happy, and its made such a difference to us. We talked last night about all sorts of things (I know there'll be a lot more of that this weekend) and even things which we both thought might be difficult seem so easy now.... smiles.

As I went off to sleep last night, our conversation reminded me in some ways of the journey earlier.....even while the drive appeared to be going well, there was some sort of sense I was headed in the wrong direction, getting further away from where I needed to be. Once I was certain of it, stopping, turning around and getting on the right road was easy and, even though it made the journey so much longer, I travelled through places and saw sights I wouldn't have otherwise seen. That can happen to us all in our professional and personal lives sometimes just as easily as it can a car journey.

I'm spending today with our oldest snugglebunny while clare's in work.... and then a girlie night tonight for us all. There are lots of other things planned for the weekend, including a visit to see those 'cheeky monkeys' tomorrow..... we must make sure we take the camera just in case we spot two that we recognise.... winks at M and DragonM.

and especially for clare...... thank you for the wonderful welcome to both your homes babes..... its like I've never been away....hugs.

xxxxx