SILLY AND NOT-SO-SILLY SATURDAY

We have had a lovely morning - we went out for our usual coffee to Jack’s and met up with several different friends.

Gill came in with her granddaughter, M, and it was good to see them.  M was very proud of her new gilet, and Grandma said that she had wanted one because her brother had one.  As M was showing it to me, I told her that it was very pretty asked if she thought it would fit me, so when she took it off, I started to put my arm through the sleeve opening.  She looked at me as if I was silly (!) and said “Of course it won’t fit you!” and promptly took it back.  

Gill and I chatted and she said that M was now almost 5 - I remembered that I had taken a photograph of her a couple of years ago when she was dressed in her ballet tutu, so when she heard me say that, M asked if she could see the photograph, so after scrolling through the hundreds on my phone, I managed to find it to show her. 

After taking a photograph of M’s back view in her new gilet, she then asked if she could take a photograph of me - well, I wasn’t that keen, but fair’s fair and I had taken one of her, so here are two “silly” photographs of me, taken by M and my offering for the Silly Saturday challenge.  I must admit it did save me going out looking for something silly.

After Gill and M left, our friends, Trevor and Louise came in and sat with us, so we had a good catch-up chat with them as we hadn’t seen them for a week or so.  Then Margaret, a lady we often see in there, and who lives on her own, was walking past so she came in for a chat - it’s good to meet up with friends - and we are so grateful to have so many.

Then as we were about to leave, I saw a man who used to be our doctor and who knew our younger son, J well -  if ever I saw the doctor, even after he retired, he always asked after our son.  In fact, today, when I went over to speak to him, he asked how J was, so I was able to tell him that he now lives in Vietnam and is very happy there.  

I thought the person with him was Leo, the doctor’s son, who had been a trainee solicitor in the 1980s and who worked at the same practice where I was a legal secretary,.  However, it transpired that the younger man was the Leo’s brother;  he said he would be speaking to his brother later, and would mention my name - Leo may not remember me, because it was over 30 years ago but his brother told me that he is now a solicitor working in Madrid.  I have just looked him up on the internet, and although it is a long time ago, he hasn’t changed that much - I think maybe I have changed more!

“There is something beautiful 
     about watching two people 
          lovingly act silly together; 
behaving as though no one else existed.” 
Steve Maraboli