End of an Era
Another of our closest friends left London for the coast yesterday -
I met Simone in 1987 at work and have been best friends since then. In the trend towards moving out she put her house on the market in the summer....I looked at houses with her in Berkshire and Oxfordshire , found nothing suitable and then she found an amazing opportunity in Bideford, not as close to London but plenty of opportunity to develop and build etc and also to let Bram grow up in the countryside...
Anyway it will be weird - she has always been around the corner - we have had plenty of late nights, drunken New Years, Guardian Crosswords, Squash Lessons,Theatre trips, Suzanne Vega concerts, exercise stints,shopping sprees, having our colours done, cinema clubs, getting taxis to collect booze and fags for everyone at two in the morning in Tooting, choosing spectacles together, buying very 1980s suits together in Jane Norman! buying the best ever suits in Cerruti in the 90s, being the massage guinea pig, reading Chinese Horoscopes and believing them, accompanying each other to Mysteries to have our tarots read, been loud in central London restaurants, getting a whole restaurant standing on chairs in Kensington to the tune of We're Going up Sunshine Mountain', cooked more dinner party food in your house with our other great friend Emma than I can remember and more recently frequented the swings at Dulwich Park while waiting for Nelly - even one day losing her son Bram one hot sunny afternoon! only for five minutes don't worry! ...enough enough I could bore for hours about the good times we had so let's not get sad....
2007 New Beginning all round .........
I lent my vacuum cleaner so Ganka, our shared cleaner, could tidy up before the new people arrived and went round this morning to a very empty house...We had a brief farewell yesterday afternoon and decided that we should all now invest in Skype phones so we can conference call together at about 6 30 in the evening when we usually congregate at her house for a cup of tea or glass of wine ( usually the latter ) .. Anyway if you read this - Thanks Mate - for all the good times, the stair gates, playpen, changing station etc etc ....we sure are going to miss you and we will be down sooner than you think. Looking forward to picnics by the sea
Anyway China - our acceptance letter is in Beijing we now have to wait for the ITT..think we will book our tickets in the New Year and maybe go to get our visa next week....
Off now to collect the poor pussy cat who had three teeth extracted today ....
tune in again for next China update.....
I met Simone in 1987 at work and have been best friends since then. In the trend towards moving out she put her house on the market in the summer....I looked at houses with her in Berkshire and Oxfordshire , found nothing suitable and then she found an amazing opportunity in Bideford, not as close to London but plenty of opportunity to develop and build etc and also to let Bram grow up in the countryside...
Anyway it will be weird - she has always been around the corner - we have had plenty of late nights, drunken New Years, Guardian Crosswords, Squash Lessons,Theatre trips, Suzanne Vega concerts, exercise stints,shopping sprees, having our colours done, cinema clubs, getting taxis to collect booze and fags for everyone at two in the morning in Tooting, choosing spectacles together, buying very 1980s suits together in Jane Norman! buying the best ever suits in Cerruti in the 90s, being the massage guinea pig, reading Chinese Horoscopes and believing them, accompanying each other to Mysteries to have our tarots read, been loud in central London restaurants, getting a whole restaurant standing on chairs in Kensington to the tune of We're Going up Sunshine Mountain', cooked more dinner party food in your house with our other great friend Emma than I can remember and more recently frequented the swings at Dulwich Park while waiting for Nelly - even one day losing her son Bram one hot sunny afternoon! only for five minutes don't worry! ...enough enough I could bore for hours about the good times we had so let's not get sad....
2007 New Beginning all round .........
I lent my vacuum cleaner so Ganka, our shared cleaner, could tidy up before the new people arrived and went round this morning to a very empty house...We had a brief farewell yesterday afternoon and decided that we should all now invest in Skype phones so we can conference call together at about 6 30 in the evening when we usually congregate at her house for a cup of tea or glass of wine ( usually the latter ) .. Anyway if you read this - Thanks Mate - for all the good times, the stair gates, playpen, changing station etc etc ....we sure are going to miss you and we will be down sooner than you think. Looking forward to picnics by the sea
Anyway China - our acceptance letter is in Beijing we now have to wait for the ITT..think we will book our tickets in the New Year and maybe go to get our visa next week....
Off now to collect the poor pussy cat who had three teeth extracted today ....
tune in again for next China update.....
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