How on earth does one try and find out if a lovely old business chum has popped off, or gone and got married again, or both?
At three-score-years and twelve, there are a few names less on my PC, more's the pity, but when the Christmas cards don't appear, and the emails start to bounce back, a big fear crosses the brow of the hill, and a gaze into the distance occurs.
I've been wracking my brains to ask a mutual chum about a great buddy of mine, and I think I cracked it about right and asked him, but - well - who knows?
It took me a couple of glasses of Lindemans to pluck up the courage, so I hope it was well slurped...
Hmmm; sadly I missed the old chum's passing by a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteIn the old days, I'd have known within hours, but not any more!
I bet he went with a huge grin, just about to be altered slightly as he took on yet another Large Gordons!
'Bye Derek, you ain't really forgotten chum!
I had occasional email contact with an old school friend and fellow trainspotter who I knew was not in the best of health. I was told third hand in January by another friend that Jeff had died the previous November so I never got the chance to bid him farewell.
ReplyDeleteThere are also those people we once knew but didn't keep in touch with for any number of reasons. It's a sobering thing to do - go through a few old memories of people we knew decades ago while also realising that some will inevitably have passed away and we'll never know it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Men!
ReplyDeleteI used to pride myself in knowing as many people as possible, especially where we became good chums, and as my address book slims down, I suppose this sort of thing will be inevitable!
On a brighter note, an old school chum has surfaced after nearly sixty years, and that is a real joy!
Update - The poor guy left us all a couple of years ago!
ReplyDeleteI just didn't know, and wish I'd been there to see him off.