The thing about friends….and other stuff

Old friends

The night before the Easter break I received phone calls from 2 old friends – I hadn’t spoken to them for ages. Within seconds we were chatting away, making silly jokes and laughing our heads off…even when we settled into the serious stuff about families, friends and work we still managed to raise laughs. This, I think, is the best thing about old friends:– it is that wonderful comfortable feeling of being with a person who has known you for donkey years, warts and all, the good and bad (and I guess the ugly moments) and they still love you to bits and you love them to bits. And conversations are so relaxed, funny, interesting (and having someone so interested in your doings), sometimes sharing sadness and pain, no competing, no point scoring (they know you too well *grin*) ….just a good old chin wag and enjoying the moment.

The other friends that I also love are those newish friends who are just like old friends… wonderful and ditto all the above.

And the other old friends that you don’t see or hear from for what seems like decades who suddenly contact you and you are instantly back to where you were….I loved getting an email titled Mad Cow Disease from Frances apropos my walk in Spain…. I immediately started laughing about some of our exploits.

I am very blessed - thank you friends.

The little drummer girl

A number of people have been in touch to find out about how my drumming lesson are progressing. Well here’s the thing….there comes a time in life when you just have to bite the bullet and accept that your next career is not going to be that of rock star. You have to suck it up and admit to yourself and others (or they keep encouraging you to carry on and not ever give up on pain of death) that you have absolutely no talent whatsoever and never will have. Nor any rhythm for that matter – a little of which helps a lot in this game. I am still totally gob-smacked as to how drummers manage to keep all 4 limbs belting out different beats, at differ times, in different directions, all at the same time….and their lips aren’t even moving counting out the beats, in fact they are probably adding a 4 part harmony …. Amazing.

So, a fairly unused set of drum sticks and hardly used practise mat going to a good home…you know how to contact me.

Last but not least

My young niece Chloe posts some very funny things on facebook; but this one took the cake.

She posted it on the Monday morning after Will and Kate’s wedding:

“A prince got married and the bad guy died…a real Disney weekend”

LOL