13th March 2024
Today was a meeting of my old school friends from the Bath Art School at the Holborn Museum. Miraculously we have kept in contact over the past few years, and although the whole class(the ones that are left) have tried to get together as often as we can. The others are on a Greek island, Australia, Canada and the USA.
It is special, and although we all have stories to tell, many repeatedly, but we enjoy each other’s company so it doesn’t matter.
I decided to take the bus, and to flash my new bus pass. As it pulled up at the stop, I got on, and was faced by loads of old folk. I don’t consider myself old yet, but I thought I was on an old people’s day out.
Mercifully I got to the city and wandered about until I was due to meet up with Rob for lunch and a long awaited Masala dosa. After enjoying that we had a coffee and headed down Pultney street for our reunion.
The group were huddled outside, it wasn’t the warmest of places, but the heat from our coffee cups gave us some relief.
Eventually we moved inside and took over a large table, that was a lovely warm place.
After several hours we hugged each other and said our farewells.
I walked back with Rob until we parted ways with me heading towards the bus station.
I had an hour wait, but soon I was on the way home. The bus stopped at ever single stop on the way back, it felt like a long long journey.
Another Lifetime to go 