Let's catch up with Fee and Crip...

Remember my lovely friend Fee? The very beautiful young girl who got engaged to Crip when he proposed to her in Rome?  Well I thought I'd update you on what has being going in their lives.

Well Crip lost his job at the bank he was working at in the New Year (last year). He wasn't in any hurry to find new employment as he had a good redundency package and wanted to spend the time doing his house up.

Last October I went and spent the night at their house, and Fee and I went to the movies and drinks afterwards.  She told me she wasn't happy with Crip at the moment.  As the wine flowed, so did Fee's feelings.  She was upset with how Crip had become the past few months.  He had let himself go, put on a few pounds, had lost his drive to do anything with his life apart from slothing around the house.  He was always on at Fee to make herself look fantastic (not hard to do) so he had a beautiful woman on his arm all the time, but not bothering with himself.  She said she didn't even like him touching her anymore.  She also didn't like his parenting skills with his teenage children, and didn't think he would make a good father for her children when she decided to have them. Plus she really wanted to do some travelling before settling down, but Crip didn't.  He's already settled.  Fee doesn't have that many female friends to talk to about her feelings and had bottled it all up so certainly used me to get them all out.  I felt sad because they are both my friends and didn't want to see them split, because of how long it took them to get together properly in the first place.  Crip had split up with Fee the year before because of all the reasons she was saying now.  He knew this would happen, but I was telling him it wouldn't.  Fee was telling him it wouldn't!  And now it was happening.

I told her to sit down and talk to him about it all.  Plus sleep on it and see how she felt in the morning, as by this time, we were both incredibly drunk.  So drunk we got lost trying to walk home and called Crip to try and find us. He wasn't impressed as he was in bed and didn't bother, but at least he knew what street we were in (the next suburb, they all look the same in Roundabout City where they live!) giving me an idea where we were!

The next morning, we were having a cuppa together before I headed home.  Everything seemed normal.  By the evening I received a text from Fee saying that she told Crip she didn't want to be with him anymore and had moved out.  When Fee decides to do something, she does it there and then. 

The good news is she moved back closer to Blah so we could see more of her, but not for long.  Her mother was moving to another town an hour away and Fee was going with her.  She thought the further she moved away from Crip the better chance she could start afresh.  So in the five months since the split with Crip, she's been working as a bartender in a golf club, plus doing some work as an 'extra' which she got through our gay friend Ford who's been an extra for years (I keep seeing him on Shameless, Eastenders, Coronation St). Fee's been having an absolute blast, filming on shows like Casualty, Hustle, and some movies.  She's moved out of her Mothers and is sharing with another single girl and is loving the single life, something she's really never had.  Her plan is to finish her accounting degree this year (when she can fit it in!) and then go off travelling for a year or so.  I have a feeling this isn't going to happen.  Fee is so beautiful, she's going to get discovered and become more than an extra (even though she has never acted in her life!)  As long as she remembers me when she becomes famous!!!  Hence to say, I haven't seen much of her, but she is coming to Amsterdam with me for the weekend at the end of April.  I can't wait to catch up with her properly.

And Crip, what's he up to I hear you ask???


Crip has never been single.  He's always jumped from one relationship to another.  He's the type who can't be single.  When they split, he told me he wasn't going to get into another relationship for a long time.  He was even saying that a month ago.  He's lost weight, dressing nicely again and set up his own business.

A couple of weeks ago I bumped into him walking down the street.  He was with an attractive red headed woman, in her thirties, with two small children in tow which Crip was holding the hand of one of the little boys.  He introduced her to me and she said they were on a family day out.

The next day I messaged Crip and asked who's 'family' he was on a day out with.  He told me it was someone he used to work with 14 years ago.  Didn't mention if they were romantically involved.


The next week, he changed his status on Facebook saying he was in a relationship with this woman.

I knew he couldn't be single for long!