[I really must come up with some more imaginative titles for my posts.]
I'm quite subdued today, after hearing that a good friend of ours died of a heart attack yesterday, in his early 70s. We hadn't seen Barrie for quite a while but had an e-mail from him just before Christmas. He was extremely wise and one of the friendliest men we've ever had the honour of knowing. I'd forgotten until just now that he did the address at our wedding. As is usually the case on these occasions it all passed in a blur and I can't remember a word of what he said, but I will never forget how pleased he was that we'd asked him to do it in preference to others who in his modesty he considered were better qualified.
One little gem did make us laugh today though: on my parents' Christmas tree are two small felt stockings, made for me and bro, initialled A and D. My fortuitous lack of imagination in choosing names for my sons means they are now reused but their origins aren't forgotten. Sarah said they stood for Awesome and Dipstick, which I was quite happy to hear knowing which initial belonged to me - but Adam repeated the words as Autumn and Lipstick. David declined to declare whether he preferred to be a dipstick or a lipstick. I couldn't possibly comment.
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