Slots of fun

It was all booked and we were so looking forward getting together. Just the 6 of us.

I’ve known these ladies for years and years. They are the sort of people that you already know you have had the best time away, even before you have gone ☺

Putting the world to rights, laughing… Lots of that. Helping each other vent about something that’s bothering us or upsetting us, cheering someone up, sometimes wiping the tears away and having a cuddle, taking the mickey, getting drunk and then watching your friend help another because she has fallen out of the taxi, while the rest of us are laughing at the situation. We are in our 40s. That was a true event.

I can rely on them to take any difficulties away that I would face on my own. Because I treat my reading glasses like the holy grail and frightened of breaking or losing them, I don\’t take them out. I will have to get a spare pair of glasses.

But for now… they become my spare set of eyes.

They would read the whole menu for me if I asked them, but I wouldn’t have them doing that and because I’m at the seaside I will most likely say… ‘have they got one of those seaside fish and chips special things with the little pot of tea and the bread and butter?’

They will read it out to me. Tell me how much it is and then bless them, they will usually order for me as it’s just less stressful for me.

They will read anything I can’t see if they see me squinting or I ask them.

Enlarging a photo on their phone is standard nowadays. Then, even if I still can’t see it, they tell me what it is, I stare abit more and then I can usually make it out if I know what I’m looking for.

Sometimes I just say ‘still haven\’t got a bloody clue’

I also have to trust them if they take a picture as my eye has developed abit of a slight squint that I only became aware of when I looked at some photos recently.

I think it’s because my eyes are so near a phone they are rapidly trying to focus. Panicking thinking.. ‘What they hell is that? … Hurry up… She wants to see it’

They point out where I should look at them camera. We will all delete one, when it’s not best for all of us.

If it\’s bumpy ground or there is kerb hell where I am, I will link arms so that if I go down… they will either stop me or I’m taking them down with me.

The thing is… I can relax.

I usually don’t like looking at my phone very closely in public. But I will when I’m with these lot as I don’t care as much, because woe betide any randomer that would make a comment about it to me.

Before I could even react or say anything at all, the poor person would immediately regret it ☺

They would most probably be more angry and upset than me.

So, we have provisionally moved our little holiday for October.

Something to look forward to ☺

If that can’t happen then we will just move the date again.