Violin

This was hanging on the wall in the cafe. I can never see a violin without thinking of my friend, Joyce, from junior school who went on to be a professional musician. Her dad used to sit us down in the front room and play 'Meditation' by Thais on his violin, when we were very young. Joyce emigrated at 16 with her parents to New Zealand and came back to Europe to Germany in her 30's to play in orchestras there. We kept in touch all that time until, sadly, she died at 47 years old.