O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

Back in the rehearsal room with the Grads. Tonight's Romeo and Juliet rehearsal was just the ill-fated lovers going over the famous orchard scene.
Earlier in the day I went for lunch with some former colleagues at the bank. As some of the group still work there we met at a restaurant just around he corner from the office. H and M are both still there - a couple of guys I worked quite closely with and with whom I shared similar high standards when it came to checking documents. We were actually told off once by our manager when we had reviewed a document because we had made too many comments on grammar, punctuation and spelling. We couldn't believe it - these things are crucial in making your meaning clear, and in IT the sooner you find a mistake the cheaper it is to fix. If you don't find it until user acceptance testing it costs a whole heap more to fix than if you got it right in the first design document. But no, we got told off for correcting grammar. Still riles and baffles me in equal measure years later!
G was there and although we were at opposite ends of the table at lunch we had a chance to chat some more when the others went back to the office and the three non-workers went for a tea/coffee. We talked about photography and the newish photo app he's got for his phone. And how his chemo is going. He was in earlier in the week and it takes it out of him, but things are 'stable' at the moment he said. And the people at the hospital have told him it's pretty amazing he's doing so well as when he was diagnosed over 20 months ago they hadn't expected him to still be around by now. Perhaps his high levels of fitness, that made it seem so unfair when he got the diagnosis, has helped him to cope with the treatment that has seen him progress. Although he says he's not up to running for a bus, he still goes climbing on the indoor walls in Granton and out at Ratho. And he was complaining of blisters on his fingertips from practising the guitar so he's keeping pretty busy.