Friends

I dropped in on a former friend of mine last week. We used to live on the same street in Scarborough and I haven't seen her house in thirty years and her only twice since then. We drifted apart, like you do.
I pulled into her driveway and there she was raking her lawn looking just the same but with gray hair. It was as though I had been away for a day or two!She knew me right away and we got down to brass tacks and brought each other up to speed on just about everything. She standing there with her rake in her hand and me in the car.
We are doing lunch( she has always been a lady who lunches) tomorrow and will get down to even finer brass tacks. We were going into the City but she also has a meeting with her travelling companion as they are off to Australia in June. They have been around the world twice in the last few years. I feel a bit dull. Never mind she is a fine person and I am really happy to be able to talk to her again.More on this later, after the lunch.