Hi Dior,
I'm back! Norfolk was iffy weatherwise but apart from being caught on the beach in a thunderstorm, which was a very elemental experience, there was enough sunshine to keep me happy and I came home with lots of books (good 2nd hand bookshop there) and visited a lot of pretty churches (one of which had a help yourself tea table).
DP was working most of the time, but we had three nights together and I was able to watch three shows - all sell-outs. Very romantic nights, things are so much better when he's working, and he drinks less as he has to work . One thing I was on edge about - he has a friend there whom he met when he worked at the same theatre many years ago. What I didn't know, was that they had a brief 'thing' in 1990 - but I guessed within 5 minutes of meeting her as she was very cool towards me and gave him a huge, almost snoggish hug after the show - which he admitted he'd found quite inappropriate as it was in front of the entire cast and me. She really seemed to be trying to claim her 'territory' and I decided not to rise to it. When I quizzed him later, he told me all quite openly, said it was just a summer fling that was not continued afterwards, but that since he went to Norfolk this year, she's been a bit clingy even though she knows about us, and that he feels he has to extricate himself from the friendship but doesn't want to hurt her by doing it too suddenly and obviously - she's divorced, no kids, on ADs and obviously hasn't moved on. I trust him, but I do feel my hackles rise when, as yesterday, he says he's spent the afternoon watching cricket on her cable TV (at least he's not lodging with her - I'd have to put my foot down if he was). However, I'm not going to go on about it as he can't avoid meeting her (she works in the theatre some evenings) and he's only got another month there. Also, I really don't think he wants to revive anything with her. It still makes me feel uneasy though. I know a lot of his female friends are old girlfriends, and yet I don't have a problem with any of them as we all get on. I do with her - probably because I sensed a hostility and possible unfinished business on her side.
Anyway, enough of me - Dior, glad you had a good day in London - I love the Eye - have been on it twice in daylight and darkness, both spectacular. Pity H let himself down in the evening. How are things today?