the office never had enough vases, cake knives or champagne flutes, despite employees celebrating life events on what seemed to be a weekly basis).
It was filled with blooms, sea holly and agapanthus and iris, and it was glorious.
An envelope was propped against the arrangement, and I slowly opened the seal.
There was a card inside, a stunning photograph of a red squirrel eating a hazelnut on the front.
Inside, someone (Bernadette, I suspected, from the childlike scrawl) had written WELCOME BACK ELEANOR!
and a multitude of signatures, accompanied by Best Wishes or Love, were scattered across both sides.
I was somewhat taken aback. Love! Best wishes! I wasn’t at all sure what to think.
Still mulling this over, I switched on my computer.
There were so many unanswered e-mails that I went straight to today’s, thinking that I’d simply delete all the others.
The senders would get in touch again if they were important, surely.
The most recent one, sent only ten minutes ago, was from Raymond. The subject heading read: READ ME!!!
Thought I’d better put that as u probs have about ten billion unread messages in your inbox right now LOL.
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