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Living on the Edge 158; Three Little Words…

Well good morning Everybody! Are you up and about already too? I blame the clocks changing. I tried to save the extra hour we had to use when I really needed it but it had a ‘spend it or lose it’ clause attached so I couldn’t. Never mind, maybe next autumn…

Over on the table there’s been a bit of a Mills and Boon Moment, but have a handkerchief ready…

Living on the Edge 158; Three Little Words…

Lewis, Lisa and Lulu had been friends forever. They had been born within days of one another, grown up next-door to one another and pretty much never been apart. A trinity. An unholy trinity their mothers had called them; forever in each other’s back yards, giggling, sharing secrets and dreaming up some new scheme.

But today it all came falling in around Lisa and her hopes lay in shards on the cliff top. Today, Lewis and Lulu had announced that they were engaged to be married. Things were never going to be the same again. Ever.

When she saw the delight written across Lewis’ face, a silent tear rolled from Lisa’s top left window. She had always thought that she would be the one that he proposed to, the one choosing a ring with him, the one he truly loved.

“But I love you” she whispered inaudibly into the wind. And then, her inner actor assumed the role of joyous friend, and with her toothiest grin, she turned to the happy couple and proffered them the bottle of champagne she’d been saving… xxx