Tempest63
Justified & Ancient
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One of the consequences of getting old is your similarly aged friends start dropping off the perch and you find your network of contacts diminishing. Lockdown exacerbated this situation as we further lost contact with the casual acquaintances that we would bump into when dropping in the local for the odd pint and missed the gossip of the local grapevine.
I met my sons for a couple of pints on Paddies day and found out a buddy of mine “Dangerous Dave” had died last summer. Dave was one of our little ”in” crowd and we would bump into each other several times over the course of a week pre-Covid. When he found himself homeless (domestic dispute) he camped on my sofa for several weeks until he found somewhere suitable to rent.
Dave was never one to phone up for a casual, and in his view, pointless conversation, and would have thought you were wasting his time if you rang him on such a basis, so we would never have kept in touch by phone. Our contact was always in person, in the flesh, over a beer. To find out a friend had died in such a small town as ours, and you only hear of it 10 months later is a sorry state of affairs and in some respects shows what damage lockdown caused.
Me and Mrs T63 have been discussing what other friends we have lost contact with and wondering how many of them may have fallen by the wayside?
I met my sons for a couple of pints on Paddies day and found out a buddy of mine “Dangerous Dave” had died last summer. Dave was one of our little ”in” crowd and we would bump into each other several times over the course of a week pre-Covid. When he found himself homeless (domestic dispute) he camped on my sofa for several weeks until he found somewhere suitable to rent.
Dave was never one to phone up for a casual, and in his view, pointless conversation, and would have thought you were wasting his time if you rang him on such a basis, so we would never have kept in touch by phone. Our contact was always in person, in the flesh, over a beer. To find out a friend had died in such a small town as ours, and you only hear of it 10 months later is a sorry state of affairs and in some respects shows what damage lockdown caused.
Me and Mrs T63 have been discussing what other friends we have lost contact with and wondering how many of them may have fallen by the wayside?
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