surprise 6 October 2009
I’ll preface this by saying that I don’t like surprises and I would generally discourage them. But I got a nice one tonight – Himself turned up in Manchester unexpectedly. Now, it’s not something I’ll be encouraging simply because if things had gone wrong on set I would have been working till 1 in the morning and the grand gesture would have been wasted as he’s off at dawn on the morrow (and what if I had come in the door tired and cranky and not fit for human company?). Also there is the fact that I am trying to do 2 VERY big jobs at the moment – acting and writing in a major clash – and he is lucky that I had my novel homework done by the time I got home and just had to write it up. But the most curious and worrying detail of it all is that the hotel took him at his word that he was my Hubby and let him have a key to my room! He could have been any random nutter. Yes, he stayed here once before but I don’t think any of the staff were repeats from that time and besides no one ever remembers Richard (I have seen the weirdest proofs of that over the years). Most worrying to me is that the Conservative Conference is on in Manchester at the moment and many of the delegates are staying here…so I might have found a TORY in me bed!!!! As a Leftie, that doesn’t bear thinking about – though now that I think of it, if they were well presented, mannerly, entertaining and stood their round I might not be THAT shocked/dismayed???
