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Revealing the secret ... stage 2

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Back from the supermarket clutching suitable egg for icing a message onto (nowhere nearby to buy one ready made so it's a DIY version). Carefully opened the box, made up some icing and put into piping bag, drew up a template when the phone rang. "I thought I'd come home early, I'm doing some shopping at the supermarket round the corner - anything you'd like me to get?". How he hadn't seen me there I'll never know, as calmly as I could -whilst frantically packing up the chocolate egg, I replied that vegetables for the weekend would be useful. Dashed upstairs with the icing dripping from the bag to hide the evidence in daughter's room. Piped the message with shaking hands onto the egg and packed it away just before he got back.

He settled to read some running magazines and made a point of showing me the reviews of running bras (!) in case I should want to take up the sport. Does he suspect? We were all on eggshells waiting to see when he would check his blog and, sure enough, after tea he settled down to catch up with his virtual world. "Hey! I've got a comment! Someone called SR thinks my blog is great and recommends I google Couch to 5K!" Elder daughter nearly gave the game away with unusual interest - "who's SR daddy?". I surrepetitiously dragged her back into the kitchen to help tidy up. We know about the Secret Runner, but it's not time for him to yet ...

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KittyCattGraduate

I love your blog posts! I cant wait to hear the reaction when he eventually finds out :)

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Rose885Graduate

Wait...are you revealing your secret via the egg or is that a different secret? I too can't wait for his reaction, especially since you're all in on it and he still hasn't noticed haha!

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sfb350Graduate

This is brilliant - I look forward to the next installment !

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AliB1Graduate

loving it...can't wait for the next post....should we continue to call you Beckipeg or your other name SR?????

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BxsterGraduate in reply to AliB1

He he he he

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BxsterGraduate

giggling :) he's got to be suspicious now surely... :)

wonder if he'll find these blogs if he googles...

Looking forward to Sunday :)

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juicydeeGraduate

The Reveal is imminent!!! This would make brilliant reality TV...... Do tell when it happens!

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juicydeeGraduate

...and what have you piped on the egg?? (PS I loved it when you said you were all on eggshells....)

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AllyballyGraduate

Brilliant!

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Suzz2012

Ooooh love the suspense, we are all on tenterhooks :-)

AliB1 profile image
AliB1Graduate

Maybe you should post on his blog again with a link to your latest blog! Hope he doesn't find the egg until Sunday :)

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bluebootsGraduate

Just catching up with posts, hope I've not missed anything. Can't wait to hear how this goes. :)

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