p class="MsoNormal"strongIt has been a while since I have updated, this is set in 2020, but in my world, there was no Covid, Covid does not exist, so life is style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"It was a cold wet Friday night in late November, the kids were all glad it was the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanGrace had been pestering everyone about putting the Christmas tree up, despite Rachel and Richard insistence that it was too early./p
p class="MsoNormal""Mum its not fair that we can't go to see Phil's show" Lucy groaned to Rachel who was putting mascara on/p
p class="MsoNormal""Because you are too young to get into the venue"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Rachel put finishing touches to her hair with some extra hairspray to try and keep it in place but knew It was futile the rain outside was awful./p
p class="MsoNormal""Fine, can we at least get something from just eat for dinner?"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Rachel smiled and nodded; her sister-in-law Angela would be here shortly to watch the kids./p
p class="MsoNormal""Go next door and get Rose, and do not go through the tree house, its too style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI don't want to end up in AE on a Friday night"/p
p class="MsoNormal"It didn't take long for Rose to be sitting watching Harry Potter with her cousins, and for Auntie Angela to appear just as the taxi beeped outside./p
p class="MsoNormal"Rachel gave each of the kids a kiss on the head before leaving in the taxi with Eddie and Melissa, Richard's flight had been delayed so he would be meeting them at the Comedy Store./p
p class="MsoNormal"Eddie, Melissa, Rachel and Richard were sitting in their seats waiting for the curtain to come up, they had already been backstage to see Phil and he had warned them that he may feature in his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanRachel glanced at her watch, only a minute to go before the show started. She squeezed Richard's hand and smiled he had gotten there a few moments earlier after rushing in a taxi from Manchester style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSuddenly the house lights went down, and the stage lights came up as Phil came running onto the stage./p
p class="MsoNormal""Good evening, Manchester it's good to be home" cheers filled the room, and he started his routine./p
p class="MsoNormal""We have some special guests in style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanFirstly, the Waterloo Road style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe main man Bolton Smilie, Manchester's number 1 DJ" The crowd cheered, and Bolton let out a big cheer./p
p class="MsoNormal""We also have my Mum and Stepdad, and my Auntie Rachel and Uncle Richard" the crowd cheered again./p
p class="MsoNormal""So, I have talked about my time at high school before, but I left the good stuff until style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI wanted to wait till Auntie Rachel and Eddie were here"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Rachels head fell to her hands as she glanced across at her brother-in-law, tonight was not going to be quiet what she expected…./p
p class="MsoNormal"To be continued.../p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"It was a cold wet Friday night in late November, the kids were all glad it was the style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanGrace had been pestering everyone about putting the Christmas tree up, despite Rachel and Richard insistence that it was too early./p
p class="MsoNormal""Mum its not fair that we can't go to see Phil's show" Lucy groaned to Rachel who was putting mascara on/p
p class="MsoNormal""Because you are too young to get into the venue"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Rachel put finishing touches to her hair with some extra hairspray to try and keep it in place but knew It was futile the rain outside was awful./p
p class="MsoNormal""Fine, can we at least get something from just eat for dinner?"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Rachel smiled and nodded; her sister-in-law Angela would be here shortly to watch the kids./p
p class="MsoNormal""Go next door and get Rose, and do not go through the tree house, its too style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI don't want to end up in AE on a Friday night"/p
p class="MsoNormal"It didn't take long for Rose to be sitting watching Harry Potter with her cousins, and for Auntie Angela to appear just as the taxi beeped outside./p
p class="MsoNormal"Rachel gave each of the kids a kiss on the head before leaving in the taxi with Eddie and Melissa, Richard's flight had been delayed so he would be meeting them at the Comedy Store./p
p class="MsoNormal"Eddie, Melissa, Rachel and Richard were sitting in their seats waiting for the curtain to come up, they had already been backstage to see Phil and he had warned them that he may feature in his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanRachel glanced at her watch, only a minute to go before the show started. She squeezed Richard's hand and smiled he had gotten there a few moments earlier after rushing in a taxi from Manchester style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSuddenly the house lights went down, and the stage lights came up as Phil came running onto the stage./p
p class="MsoNormal""Good evening, Manchester it's good to be home" cheers filled the room, and he started his routine./p
p class="MsoNormal""We have some special guests in style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanFirstly, the Waterloo Road style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe main man Bolton Smilie, Manchester's number 1 DJ" The crowd cheered, and Bolton let out a big cheer./p
p class="MsoNormal""We also have my Mum and Stepdad, and my Auntie Rachel and Uncle Richard" the crowd cheered again./p
p class="MsoNormal""So, I have talked about my time at high school before, but I left the good stuff until style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI wanted to wait till Auntie Rachel and Eddie were here"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Rachels head fell to her hands as she glanced across at her brother-in-law, tonight was not going to be quiet what she expected…./p
p class="MsoNormal"To be continued.../p
p class="MsoNormal" /p