Blog 2
I was really pleased with my first attempt at a blog so after work I dashed round to Pippa's house to show her with a printed copy neatly folded in my handbag. It had, after all, been her idea in the first place and I sort of thought she'd be as excited about it as me.
So, we settled ourselves down at her dining room table with a nice cup of tea and I handed over the fruits of my labour.
Pippa has this little thing that she does with her mouth when she isn't entirely happy ... a small pursing of her lips that makes her nose twitch ever so slightly, and I've never told her about it because I've always enjoyed knowing a bit more about what she's thinking than she wants to let on.
There we're sat; Pippa's reading away, lips pursed and nose twitching as she shuffles through the pages until finally she reaches the end, slaps a huge fake smile on her face and announces:
"It's great."
"Really?"
"No, yes, it's really good."
"Pippa ... what is it?"
"Whadda ya mean?"
"You don't like it."
"No, I do ..."
She pauses the unsaid ‘but' left hanging in the air.
"Tell me."
She looks a little sheepish and then blurts:
"I thought I might be in it more."
Bloody, egocentric cow.
"But all we did together yesterday was have coffee and I did mention that ... I mean, I can't really just write a blog about you and me having coffee because nobody will read it."
"S'pose."
"What were you expecting? What did you think I'd write about you?"
"Dunno."
Her bottom lip is pouting sulkily now so I just stare at her, waiting her out, knowing that if I stay silent long enough that she'll eventually spit it out.
Silence.
Silence.
A huge sigh and ...
"I thought that you might like to write about some of the stuff we've done; you know, in the past."
Aaaahhh.
So, just for you Pippa, here's a blog entry about "stuff we've done; you know, in the past."
We're probably talking about six years ago. Before Pippa was with Jimmy full time, she had her own flat in town and every so often we'd have a girly night in ... sometimes there was a bunch of us but on this occasion it was just her, me, a six pack of Czech lager, a bottle of Sambuca, a couple of bottles of cheap wine, the biggest bag of toffee popcorn you've ever seen in your life and Brad/Keanu/Patrick or Hugh doing their stuff on the dvd player.
Not that we were really paying much attention to the tv ... mostly it was Sambuca shots with beer chasers and lots and lots of giggling.
But all good things must come to an end and even six packs of Czech lager run out eventually. Luckily we had a brainwave; we'd do Sambuca shots with wine chasers. We both liked Sambuca, we both liked wine, it was bound to be good.
Now, there is a possibility that by this point we were a little tipsy and that maybe our judgement was not quite as sharp as it could have been; certainly I remember being rather unstable on the short journey from sofa to fridge to collect the wine and then having to be sent back to find some glasses and then being sent back once again to go and get the corkscrew ... which certainly dates it because every bottle of wine I buy nowadays comes with a screw top.
So, I'm wobbling around in the kitchen trying to find the corkscrew. I've been in here a million times but suddenly I have no idea where anything is, and I'm going through drawer after drawer until ... eureka, there it is ... and sitting right next to it is this huge, black, double ended, dildo.
Well.
Heading back, I stop in the doorway in my best Miss World presenting myself to the judges pose; you know, sort of half turned with the heel of your right foot raised so that your thighs rub together and your right knee juts forward; raise both my arms aloft and shout out:
"Lookee what I found."
Left hand corkscrew, right hand huge dong.
Well, I don't know what I expected from Pippa, but a huge grin cracks across her face and she starts doing ‘gimmee hands' ... and I don't believe it was the corkscrew she wanted. I chuck the dildo across to her, slump down on my end of the sofa and set about trying to get the corkscrew out of the bottle; which proved to be far more difficult than it should have been mainly because Pippa is slurping noisily whilst doing her best impression of deep throating her plastic friend.
Eventually, I end up pushing the cork into the bottle and manage to pour us both a large one. We do a shot of Sambuca, chase it down with our wine and I refill our glasses and all the while Pippa's waving the dildo at me ...