“How are you doing Bette ?” Kit comes up to me after I have been to the bathroom and I have just come back to the function

“Fine “

“You look tired “

“As I told CJ my daughter kicks almost as much as her mother – and she has an ability to be put into bed the normal way and bingo a few hours later she is lying horizontal with her jumpy little legs kicking me in the small of the back “

Kit laughs “Sounds like she’s going to do things her way or not at all “

“Oh that was obvious from day one – my daughter takes no orders “

“Just as well she is the First Daughter and no one would DARE tell her what to do “

“Pity the poor so and so who gets to teach her “

“That’s still a long way away – enjoy her before she is at school all day and she starts to get her own interests and likes “

“She has her own likes – it doesn’t do to put a DVD in that she doesn’t like – cannot imagine who she takes after “

“And what would she do with the Holly Lancaster situation ?”

“Be sick on her “

I laugh

“Have you spoken to Tina ?”

“She’s out at a function – I will talk to her tomorrow. She will be asleep tonight when I get back.”

“Holly is wearing a stunning black dress “

“She’s a beautiful woman “

“She’s a dangerous one “

“As JJ has been telling me I need to stop giving her the power to hurt me “

“Talk of the devil “

I look up and Holly is heading towards me. She does look stunning and she’s getting a lot of admiring glances. She gets to about 10 feet of me and suddenly Phyllis is standing in front of her and giving her

that HUGE Texan smile and chatting away to her. Holly cannot be rude to her – that’s not in her nature. She stands and allows herself to be dragged into a conversation – as she is chatting away Phyllis is steering her away from me and towards a couple of men who have been watching Holly with interest. The men are delighted to be introduced to her and they are reluctant to let her or Phyllis leave.