New beginnings
Lorraine and I up to the smoke today to Diane's party in the Garden Cafe in Regents Park. Very stylish venue and Regents Park in full bloom and busy in the sun. After recovering from a cancer operation last year Diane decided to have a party "to celebrate new beginnings".
Mum and Mase were there, and we met lots of Diane's family I had not seen for many years. Nice food and bubbly and plenty of friendly chat. Mum and Mase recovering from a cat emergency as Salty returned home needing stitches this morning. Diane enjoying things, and gave a nice short speech over a candled cake.
Then we returned to Brighton and snoozed. A delightful little girl of perhaps four talking to her father all the way down. As we were pulling into Brighton she asked "how do people with only one leg go to the toilet? Do they hop on?"
Out with Sue and John, who we'd visited in the Cotswolds last year, and are very close friends of Lorraine. We had a nice Japanese meal with them at Oki-Nami. Nice food, and plum wine is yum. Both interesting and likable people. John told me how his life had changed when he was stabbed as a teenager near the Whittington Stone in Highgate. Instead of going to college, he instead went up north and worked in hospitals. He then studied psychology and has ended up as a university lecturer, on teaching people with learning disabilities.
After the Japanese meal, we went off to The Bricklayer's Arms for an absolutely final beer, and to open the tins on the wall to read the messages. As Lorraine and I walked home we passed some comedian outside The Brighton Tavern yelling at people "keep it (the noise) down! I'm trying to smoke a cigarette" and then arguing happily with anyone who paused to take issue.
Lorraine and I up to the smoke today to Diane's party in the Garden Cafe in Regents Park. Very stylish venue and Regents Park in full bloom and busy in the sun. After recovering from a cancer operation last year Diane decided to have a party "to celebrate new beginnings".
Mum and Mase were there, and we met lots of Diane's family I had not seen for many years. Nice food and bubbly and plenty of friendly chat. Mum and Mase recovering from a cat emergency as Salty returned home needing stitches this morning. Diane enjoying things, and gave a nice short speech over a candled cake.
Then we returned to Brighton and snoozed. A delightful little girl of perhaps four talking to her father all the way down. As we were pulling into Brighton she asked "how do people with only one leg go to the toilet? Do they hop on?"
Out with Sue and John, who we'd visited in the Cotswolds last year, and are very close friends of Lorraine. We had a nice Japanese meal with them at Oki-Nami. Nice food, and plum wine is yum. Both interesting and likable people. John told me how his life had changed when he was stabbed as a teenager near the Whittington Stone in Highgate. Instead of going to college, he instead went up north and worked in hospitals. He then studied psychology and has ended up as a university lecturer, on teaching people with learning disabilities.
After the Japanese meal, we went off to The Bricklayer's Arms for an absolutely final beer, and to open the tins on the wall to read the messages. As Lorraine and I walked home we passed some comedian outside The Brighton Tavern yelling at people "keep it (the noise) down! I'm trying to smoke a cigarette" and then arguing happily with anyone who paused to take issue.
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