I’m excited. In fact: I’M EXCITED!

I’m doing the cat that got the cream impressions, the mad woman with the permanent grin on her face impression and even a fairly passable Bobby Ball 'I'm excited, Tommy' impersonation. I’m also greatly indebted to Scally, who has gone far beyond the call of friendship yet again.

We booked a week off work in September and hoped to get away somewhere nice and warm – then Son dropped the bombshell of the wedding and we had to book that with the travel agent fairly smartly, which took a large chunk of our holiday savings for this year.

Due to the awful weather everyone over here has decided to go aboard and consequently the last minute bargains aren’t bargains at all. They are still near enough full price. So it looked like we were destined to find Bed and Breakfast in this country for a couple of days. The break is important to us, I love my dad dearly but he can be incredibly demanding at times, my holiday is the one week where I’m at no ones beck and call. We just suit ourselves, no sorting everyone else out before we go out or having to get back at a certain time to make sure everyone is fed. One week a year that keeps me going for another 12 months, and it wasn’t going to happen.

But fear not – this is where Scally worked her magic. She not only found me very affordable flights but also a hotel with half board all for the price I’d have paid for one person, self catering, with a travel agent. She’s done all the leg work for me too – everything is sorted and booked.

The icing on the cake being it’s close to where she lives so I’ll not only get to met her, but spend some time with her too. Yes, that’s another threat, but she’s used to it.

So how’s that for friendship? In less than 24 hours she has turned around disappointment and guilt that Himself wasn’t having the holiday that he needs so much to I can’t settle down to work as I’m far too…..

EXCITED!

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It also dawned on me today that it was now 12 months ago I decided that I could write m/m slash and just how difficult was it to produce a web page? Yes, well, sometimes you have to learn the hard way.

It was then that I found a small group of people that have come to mean an awful lot to me; they’ve helped me move on in my life. I don’t think you can go looking for that sort of friendship – it has to happen naturally. I didn’t expect it and I couldn’t begin to put a value on it or explain how much they’ve all come to mean to me. Being an only child can be very lonely at times.

We exchange emails nearly every day and I can almost guarantee that if something has upset me or I need some support or advice I will get a response from at least one of them within 10 minutes what ever the time – how's that for a support network? They’ve put up with all of my moods and have made me laugh so much – something that I’d forgotten how to do. With them I can truly be myself – the only other person that I can be like that with is Himself.

I was talking to Pooks about this the other day and she pointed out that you don’t always get that kind of relationship with your siblings, there is no guarantee. Sometimes the important family is the one that you make for yourself and it grows up around you over time. Occasionally, just occasionally I find something that Pooks and I can agree upon.