It's not eavesdropping if you shout.

If you text someone's housephone instead of their mobile, you can't complain if the wrong person reads your message. Can you?

It wasn't the content of the message that I take issue with as such (she met someone on the internet, then on meeting in real life told him she loved him and couldn't live without him - hardly first-date material) but that the end of the message was "can't wait to see you".

Can't wait to see him? Really? I knew he'd told her that we're going to London for a romantic Valentines-anniversary-Arsenal weekend and I hope sincerely she won't take that as an invitation to fawn all over him and make pointed little remarks about how miserable she is without him, and how wicked I am for stealing him away.

She doesn't have a leg to stand on really, as she left her parental home at 15 (pregnant with him, if that doesn't just say it all) and he stayed til 22, so she's had a good seven years more than she's entitled to. I can only hope and pray that he stands up to her and tells her that this is a couples weekend and not a familial visit.

Plus, after the Christmas fiasco, I doubt I could bite my tongue with her. What's wrong with the meat, indeed!!