Never too old to learn!

Late last night I wrote my Blog and it was quite an amazing piece on my feelings and thoughts on 'Friendship' and if  I say so myself it read really well. Thoughts transformed into the written word just flew onto the screen, I was really humming and creativity was in full flight when just as I was pasting in one of my favourite quotes I managed to delete the whole lot! As you do.

So once again I learnt that no matter how old and seemingly wiser I am I still manage to mess up! And all I had to do was save it and finish when not so tired.

No you are never too old too learn. So 'Friendship' I will tackle again tomorrow.

Tonight was a really special occasion for together with some good friends I led a small, informal 'unveiling' ceremony  at our local cemetery and what a poignant yet joyful time it was. Memories were shared, those rich times when our friendship has grown across the years with our friend  were recalled as the setting sun sank behind us like a glorious blood red  ball disappearing below the horizon. Humorous anecdotes of our amateur theatre experiences provoked loads of laughter, then there were those sacred moments as we spoke of what our friend meant to us and we silently held him close in grateful hearts.

We drank his health; some shared poems for himI loved my friend and so we honoured our friend, Alan Edgar George Flatt.

Alan on the left as Admiral Nelson with Colin Kemplen as Hardy

in a comedy sketch from a production I directed called 'Slice of Life' in 2006

I have taken the liberty of adapting a wee poem by Langston Hughes as it says it all.

"We loved our friend

He went away from us

There's nothing more to say 

The poem ends, 

Soft as it began- 

We loved our friend.”