DM tells me there is a country & western number that has a lyric # while I was out on my John Deere, she was writing her Dear John….

I hope that’s true because if it is, it’s an inspired lyric.

So, I am crap, crap and double crap with knobs on today.

Why?

Because a few weeks ago, I was sitting in a client’s office and we were discussing possible meeting dates. I was trying to be nice to my colleague, who works part-time and I didn’t want her to work on a day off. So, the client said which day during this week could we make and I agreed tomorrow. Then, a few days later, it hit me – the 18th September isn’t ‘just a day’, it’s DMs birthday. Oh holy shit Batman – I have screwed up big time this time.

So, in a big effort to make 17th into 18th, we’ve been out to dinner and I have given him a pile of pressies.

This one is a pair of John Deere overalls, which are the subject of a long-term standing joke between us. He is now a proud owner of said overalls, even though he’s been told in no uncertain terms that he’s NOT getting a John Deere tractor next…..well, at least not if I am paying!!!!

Now I head off into the wide blue yonder and he spends his 43rd birthday alone – what sort of evil, nasty, wicked person am I? Yep – that’s just exactly the sort.

Last year I was covering a thorny subject too!