Minestrone

Just look at the colours of the seaweed on the shore at Ganavan Sands near Oban - like a wonderful soup on the clean, pale beach. We were enjoying one of these days when intervening years in a friendship are as nothing, walking along the shore in a chilly wind with a couple we last spoke to at our #2 son's wedding in France almost 11 years ago. 

We spoke of Brexit and Scottish Independence; of teaching and writing; of music and drama. And we were of a mind on everything. 

Our friends are French and live in France.