My pals are visiting from down south... these are friends I have known since my school days so we have forty five years plus of memories, laughs, trips away, surviving many good and bad times together - its crazy to think of all the moments we have shared and how we could never imagine our futures and how they would stay intertwined in spite of different lifestyles and living so far apart.
Its what makes a good friendship, nothing really sustains it - it just does.. it just happens through thick and thin regardless of external influences, people, events, distances it just endures. There is no secret I think it either happens or doesn't, some people you can never be rid of ha ha and in some circumstances I'm one of them!!!
I think we must be 17 in this picture, My friend didn't join school until the sixth form and united by a love of similar music - Lou Reed, (early) Queen, Genesis plus more we became firm and, as is has turned out, lifelong amigas!
I still have that dress! its in the dressing up box... I remember making it and wearing it with huge high platform sandal covered in hessian with green flowers stenciled on them...
Over the years this friendship extended to her sisters and to one in particular - its lovely to have them visit even with the naughty dogs!! (dino actually tried to eat a tin to get at the flapjack)!!
Partners in crime we have traveled the world, drunk copious bottles of wine and gin, flouted fashion (I'm thinking of the matching cheesecloth shirts - I never really improved ha ha ), listened to endless music, partied with each other, consoled each other, laughed together, cried together - drugs sex and rock and roll - well in our own way ... its been no effort and its been great fun and hopefully will continue that way for many years to come!
This recent visit felt quite fleeting but we packed in a lot of conversation, some wandering by the river, quite a bit of gin, not so much wine as we used to - age starting to tell on us - earlier nights and later mornings but still excellent company and a great time.
We probably over dosed on meringues but that's what friends are for - looking forward to our next get together.
Its what makes a good friendship, nothing really sustains it - it just does.. it just happens through thick and thin regardless of external influences, people, events, distances it just endures. There is no secret I think it either happens or doesn't, some people you can never be rid of ha ha and in some circumstances I'm one of them!!!
I think we must be 17 in this picture, My friend didn't join school until the sixth form and united by a love of similar music - Lou Reed, (early) Queen, Genesis plus more we became firm and, as is has turned out, lifelong amigas!
I still have that dress! its in the dressing up box... I remember making it and wearing it with huge high platform sandal covered in hessian with green flowers stenciled on them...
Over the years this friendship extended to her sisters and to one in particular - its lovely to have them visit even with the naughty dogs!! (dino actually tried to eat a tin to get at the flapjack)!!
Partners in crime we have traveled the world, drunk copious bottles of wine and gin, flouted fashion (I'm thinking of the matching cheesecloth shirts - I never really improved ha ha ), listened to endless music, partied with each other, consoled each other, laughed together, cried together - drugs sex and rock and roll - well in our own way ... its been no effort and its been great fun and hopefully will continue that way for many years to come!
This recent visit felt quite fleeting but we packed in a lot of conversation, some wandering by the river, quite a bit of gin, not so much wine as we used to - age starting to tell on us - earlier nights and later mornings but still excellent company and a great time.
We probably over dosed on meringues but that's what friends are for - looking forward to our next get together.
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| later photo ... not quite recent but within last decade... (still got that dress too) |
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