Thanks idi and Liz.
Well my son calls for me at 2 and we go and have a ginormous Sunday lunch (I had roast beef) with my granddaughter Lola, who is aged 14. She is very beautiful and also, like her grandmama bunking off school. So we have a one conversation about how not to see after the rest of the family and spend the rest of your life trying to get an education. The grandsons had to leave to return to Scotland so we missed them this time but we pledge to all go down to my daughters at the end of May together.
During a cigarette break, my sons calls an old friend of mine who I haven’t seen for 18 years. We fell out when I went with Pete and he said that he was shocked that I had gone with a black man… yes really. This friend had helped me when Ben was little and I was on my own in a tower block in the old,Kent road on my own with Ben. he was fundamental in getting Kai interested in electronics and fixing things. He had had an unrequited love thing going on for many years with me hence taking it so badly when I went with pete. It was very shortly after his mum died and I had met pete at the wake. So, a lot of history. It was such a rigmarole at the time. He told my sons that pete had taken me off at knifepoint and then an all points bulletin went out wit my family. It was crazy stuff but I fell in love,with pete from the first moment I met him. Dave is now aged 72 and incapacitated with a stroke, speech difficulties and has a carer. Ben left a message on his phone and I also followed with a nice message which w8ll give him a huge, but pleasant shock, I hope. Well, no one can say my life wasn’t boring until I got cancer.
It was a lovely lunch and I paid for it. yea!! It gave me great joy to do so and I gave my granddaughter a fiver. I don’t care if I don’t have much, if I can spare it my family gets it!
