My friends know me so well

Above is a birthday card and a book received from my cocktail Queen friend.

Bad news today. Jenny, my oldest friend who I went to Venice with, rang to say her husband died during the night. He was in a care home with Alzheimer’s and had been unwell for a while but you can never prepare yourself for it really. She’s very tearful but his son is coming down tonight and her sister will go tomorrow to stay. She says the cremation may not be for 2-3 weeks so I hope we are back in time. Either way, she wants me to go up to stay as soon as we are back.

I was at book group this afternoon. We discussed Ethan Frome for about 30 minutes then it drifted off into chitchat. I might manage to be away for the next one. They are inviting some new people to join as Joan is giving up, leaving Marian and me the ones we have been going for over 17 years. The other book group is more structured and and we spend more time on the book. I was lucky and got several for my birthday.