It was such a beautiful evening that HB and I walked tonight. We walked for about an hour and it was nice to share quiet time with her. The boy that she has a huge crush on is spending more and more time searching her out at school and talking with her and spending time with her. Shes smitten and its so sweet to see… but I become increasingly concerned that he may be getting to the point of wanting to ask her out on a date and we had a bargain that she woudn’t have a boyfriend again until after our move to the States. We figured at the time that it was a good idea to save her being upset by having to leave a boyfriend behind when we finally moved… but this Joe Boy…. hes an angel. Inbetween his exams today he waited with her because she was feeling faint in her Science class (they were disecting a lung and she doesn’t cope well with blood and organs unless its CSI). He just hung out with her for 20 minutes til she was feeling better then went on to his next exam. I guess the whole boyfriend/girlfriend situation may soon be resolved by the fact that he is leaving school in the next few weeks after his exams. HB will be devestated for weeks after hes gone.

I’m feeling pretty chipper tonight… My Boy has just phoned me and the funniest part of the whole conversation was that he is now having to wear a bright orange gortex suit as he is copper plating now… He said he looks like a giant pumpkin…

He goes back on shift on Thursday.. which means that after tomorrows day off (more of which I will tell in a moment) he will be working Thursday Friday and Saturday… and every other Wednesday…

Its the opposite of the shift he was working when we first “met”. I used to love the end of the week… hump day generally meant me rushing home to phone him to wake him and we would talk all day long until I fell asleep tired or had things to do with HB…. and this was repeated on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays too… I used to hate every other Wednesday.. it was a day stolen from me. But anyway.. hes back on shift.. and it’ll be good for him because it’ll cut down on the CRAZY hours hes been working just recently… and the puppy wont know himself having My Boy around for days on end instead of being on his own all day but for weekends.

Tomorrow is a BIG day… in terms of visa stuff… we’ve been waiting patiently for copy documents we need to be sent from the Court.. but its now two months ago since they were ordered.. so having given up entirely ont hem doing as they said they would My Boy is heading down to Salem Court tomorrow to get the documents personally. Whats so special about that you might ask… well… once he has these docs we’ll be able to get the Visa Application together and get it sent off…

Its something we have been trying to get done for so long that I’m not so much in denial about it.. but certainly in a sense of “is this FINALLY happening???”

My friend is tonight in hospital ready for her surgery tomorrow. I hope she is as settled as one can possibly be when one faces surgery for breast cancer.

On that note I’m going to dive away to bed…