“When somebody loves you” said my friend Rosey,
“they forgive your little mistakes”. She looked into Gareth’s eye and
wiggled her index finger; he smiled and gave her a loving wink. Yes, I
did say eye not eyes, because one was hidden behind a patch.
Gareth is Rosey’s new boyfriend and she brought him
to meet us over a cup of cappuccino at Starbucks. The question on all
our lips was ‘where did you meet?’ Well, it seems that Rosey was in the
supermarket last week and a little old lady asked her if she knew where
the gin was. Ever helpful, Rosey spun around, shot out her arm pointing
towards what she refers to as Alcohol Avenue. Apparently Gareth was
standing close behind her studying a display of reading glasses at the
time, and she poked him fairly and squarely in the eye. As you know
Rosey sees the funny side of every situation, and rather than apologise
she'd said, whilst stifling a fit of the giggles, that she hoped they
had a range of fashionable monocles! (In true Rosey fashion, whilst
recounting the tale she demonstrated her arm action, and in the process
stabbed a passing customer in the chest causing him to slop a stream of
strawberry smoothie down his front!)
It seems, according to Rosey that it was love at
first sight. At least it was for her; it was a minute or so before
Gareth managed to regain any kind of sight at all! As you know it's
almost impossible to get cross with Rosey because she has the ability to
disarm and delight at the same time, and this was exactly what happened
just then. In any case said Rosey, if they’d had an argument about it,
she would soon have ‘patched it up’!
So, Rosey has a fella’ again! Gareth seems to be a
nice guy. He works as an accountant which no doubt gets him the seal of
approval of her father. He has a sense of humour which gets the seal of
approval of us! He’s tall and, although I’m no real judge, reasonably
good looking. He’s still got most of his hair and I guess his own teeth
too. Whether or not we’ll see him again I don’t know; Rosey’s
relationships tend to be pretty short lived. I will of course keep you
informed!