Farewell

FM is leaving us next week after nearly 10 years here, so we went to our usual haunt to chat, eat and drink over a long evening together. V joined us just for the drinks, and a jolly evening it was. He was quite overcome by the gifts and reminiscing and I dread to think how he’ll be next week when it’s his actual last day! Still, he’s only going down the road to HW so I’m sure we’ll have other evenings together over this next year of farewells.
The daytime had sped past in virtually overlapping online and in person meetings but I did manage to dent the inbox by starting early and shovelling emails quite effectively.