Pork pies?

Keeping secrets is always a challenge. The most difficult one for me was a long time ago, when a pupil aged 14 asked me if I could keep hers. When she told me her situation I had to explain that this was too big for the two of us to deal with and I’d have to share it. Less dramatically our family had been arranging a surprise birthday weekend for hubby so secrets were being shared and I was let in on some of the arrangements. As the day crept nearer I found myself telling half truths so he wouldn’t have any idea that all of our young people were going to arrive and he’d be going out for dinner. Balloons, champagne, cake and even a mass singalong in our favourite restaurant took him by surprise. So many porkies, but such fun !