Hmmm, I have been somewhat blog tardy in recent days. I humbly apologise and shall attempt to rectify said situation immediately! (Thanks for the gentle reminder Wenhams!!)

Been a fabulous week - job is really starting to take off and more and more young people are seeking out the service and exposing all sorts of holes and gaps in the 'Care' system - obviously I can't write about specific cases but I'm finding the challenge of mediating between a mightily- pissed-off-and-not-without-good-reason young person and a Social Worker with a HUUUUUUUGE ego ....interesting to say the least!

I also love that my office is by the seaside so I can go and look at the sea and walk along the prom at lunchtime. Makes me feel very free and not at work at all! Good God times. I love that there's a road called 'Smuggler's Way' and I have taken to providing my dad with a daily text service as to the state of the river and whether there are any Neptune's White Horses! (like in the Rupert books)

Thursday brought the super-exciting news that Baby Heywood has at long last graced us with his presence. No longer dubbed 'Vincent', Little Ted weighed in at 8lb 13 (That's nearly 9 bags of sugar GOOD LORD!) Mum and I went to see him and his proud padres last evening. CONGRATS Kathy and Andy! Edward is so beautiful that I cried all over him as he snuggled in my arms and went to sleep. Entirely unprepared for the emotion he provoked in me...what the..?! But he ROCKS and I managed to smuggle champagne for K&A past the nurse...mwah hahaha.

Rich has been away this weekend at the usual post-Easter Lake Bala Youth Camp where he is speaking and leading a group and doing programme and seemingly everything else. So, Friday night I settled down with Party of Five Season One (CATE! Come home already!!) and watched it till my eyes went all gozzy! No cries of 'Turn it off', just pure, unadulterated, ME time! Woot woot!

Saturday was almost summer-like so I met the mother figure for 'cawfee' and we shopped our asses off! LOVE IT when I make her buy things - this week's offering was a pair of chocolate brown leather open toe wedges, but of course she plumped for the black ones...still needs working on that woman! ;)

I, however, spent y0nks being a super sleuth to find an Alexander McQueen Pirate print scarf - a rip off one, naturally. And figured the best place to begin would be 'lovely' St. John's Precinct....questioned about 5 classic Liverpool lasses and they suggested Primark (nope, know their stock inside out, defo not there), The Market (so trawled round there but to no avail) and finally one suggestion....TOPSHOP! Blinkin' TopShop! MAN ALIVE! So needless to say we zoomed to aforementioned establishment and FOUND IT! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!! Not only did I find the scarf, I also made the hilarious discovery that TopShop now do a line in....wait for it....can you guess?.....DOG FASHIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG! I couldn't BELIEVE IT (in Victor Meldrew stylee) -yup, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and Coleen McLoughlin types can now purchase fashions for their 'Itsby bitsy doggies' (quote P!nk) from my beloved Top of the Shops! What is the world coming to?....

Saturday night was spent in the most awesome company of my dear Abigail watching HILARIOUS 'Dr 90210' on Sky and talking about our new fave subject of giving birth - no, we're not 'with child' but man alive it's a whole new world of conversations...Abbi thought 'cervix' was a bone and I was HUGELY misinformed on the matter of 'dilation' PENNY! I think we need a seminar from you! hahaha!

So that's a brief catch up.....this week's fun include reminiscing about how mental I was this time last year and looking forward to our first wedding anniversary on Sunday 30th April - yikes, where has that year gone!!!??? Rich also starts his new job tomorrow AND I think the Dunnett/West nuptials are happening soon if not this weekend?! CONGRATS to you! AND as if all that were not enough, there's yet another Bank Holiday coming up- WOOT WOOT!

Right, I'm off to tidy and clean and try to fit in the gym AND 'Shipwrecked'!

BIG LOVE Y'ALL! xxxxx