Connie

This one is for E. When hearing that I was going to visiting south for a week he said 'ooooh, wow cool - don't forget to say hello to Connie'.

No - Connie is not his Aunt or his cousin or my friend or her daughter I am seeing at the weekend (all of these people know when his birthday is and write to him, call him and sometimes even go on holiday with him) or my other friend who is getting married at the weekend and memorably brought us a case of wine and four bottles of toffee sauce from M&S.

Connie's the dog. No - he's never met the dog.

So here we are. Connie says hi back. Sigh.

As you can see - she's grown