belated bests

be·lat·ed
prn: /bɪˈleɪtɪd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciati[bi-ley-tid]

–adjective

1. late, delayed, or detained: We started the meeting without the belated representative.

2. coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: per; belated birthday greetings. See: your shitty friend, Carli

3. archaic. obsolete; old-fashioned; out-of-date: a belated view of world politics.

Though days late, your online address has been circling round my little head like a hungry shark in a party dress, not fed, yet not forgotten.

I'm still reeling from Friday's sugar induced coma, still full from two dozen tea sandwiches, and presently steaming my Tom Colin's soaked crinoline in my bathroom.

You're a prized friend, with a high prize mind, and wiz with online inbox prose.You're a braless wonder(ful), cat-eye aficionado, and sew a fast, fine, racy hem-line - shorter, and shorter, and "shorts under this dress?"

You wouldn't dream of it.

From all of us (Myself, I, and of course young, and highly impressionable Me) at HPL, Happy Belated Birthday, Cherie.

Love love.