Blimey, Bant so the village telegraph was well and truly operational! Still, that's solved that one and sounds like you've got a good evening planned. Hope it all goes well tomorrow. The phrase, at least chez OWW, Ike is WHATEVS.
Juliette I hate phoning them, not good on the phone at all and of course there's the danger of getting trapped with some witless wonder like you did. Hope you're feeling a bit brighter soon. There's some kind of negative woo in the air at the moment isn't there.
Velvet, well that does sound a bit difficult. How old are his dc? There could be the opportunity to go round to each other's houses eventually when you have the children round, once you've been seeing each other a bit. It does get easier - I'm now happy to have LM round at mine and vice versa at least for part of the evening, and we have some days out with the children which is a bit frustrating in some ways but lovely in others.
Smoothie - tell us more about your date . . .
Rose I'm really dim but I don't know who you used to be. Help!
Now engaged in sporadic but pleasant chat with LM's friend about snow and school closures. All is well.
Think I am going to go online tonight and stay well away from FB messenger look for some more nice underwear of a stomach-concealing variety.