Life is odd at times...

[Stingo]

So, after a week of lows I returned to Gosport today to await the possible arrival of my new machine tomorrow at 'destination triumph', Fareham. At around five o'clock this afternoon I took myself for a leisurely stroll towards Stokes bay and as I approached 'the cocked hat' I received a phone call from Lucy...she needed to know how to move a file from the pc to a memory stick...so fifteen minutes or so later all is sorted (you try doing it over a phone...). Further on down the road I came across 'The Sea Horse'...and I thought to myself "I'll just pop in there for a pint and something to eat". So I found myself a quiet corner...there were about a dozen or so others in the bar and I proceeded to scan the menu. Hmmm, very nice I thought. Some movement caught the corner of my eye, I turned my head slightly and bigger me there was an old buddy whom I shared a flat with in 79/80. We'd met on two other occasions at reunions since then but this was just unbelievable. So anyway we chatted for a while, as you do, and drank beer, as you do, he had just popped in to the uk to see a relative in Gosport before he picks his new motorbike tomorrow. I am hopefully getting my new motorbike tomorrow. Unbelivable. He now lives in Turkey...Bodrum I think he said and hell be riding the machine all the way there. Sadly I will only be going to Plymouth so I clearly lose out on the bragging rights for distance. But what a coincidence. I've never even been in that pub before. But then after he'd gon I had a lovely chat with the landlord, Warren, who was a similar age to me, about robin trower, Yes, tales of topographic oceans, zep, Hendrix, and other stuff of that nature. After such a week of lows tonight was truly amazing. It is really bizarre sometimes how life pans out and things just happen. Brilliant. Happy days. Not ****ed...just pleasantly surprised! Lol.

Ps: for culture vultures yesterdays event had a recording of Maria callas singing O mio babbino caro, and concluded with a tony Bennett version 'for the good life'. Truly awesome in the particular context.

Apologies. Bit emotional.