Sunday

A wonderful walk this morning.  

I also bumped into the daughter of a school friend. She told me that she was named after a suggestion of mine. I didn't know.

Her mum had a disastrous marriage and I visited her in hospital when she had her daughter.  Her husband was with her and the tension between them was tangible. He left the bedside and she told me that the one time in the last 2 years that they slept together, she got pregnant.

Eventually my friend divorced and he remarried and had 4 other children. An alcoholic, he later drowned in his own vomit and that was it.

I'm very fortunate.

Later, we walked into town for a minute silence for The Queen.