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| Photo from October 2023 visit |
Out to West Harrow to see Jean. She turned ninety on New Year’s Eve. Did try phoning her at the time but had been unable to get through. Tease her about being out celebrating and that was probably true, although not with the champagne I suggest. Her nephew and nieces came over from Canada and the US and they did go out for a meal.
We’ve known each other for sixty years this fall and it will be over thirty years since I first brought J out here - numbers that just seem ridiculous. Good to share a glass of wine and a chat on another sunny, warm day.
Back at our Airbnb J cooks us a lovely tuna steak. We’d been walking past it in Sainsbury just as the man marked it down - from £7.95 ($14.77) to 69p ($1.28). Perfect timing, and, as it turns out, a perfect piece of fish at the end of the day.