Such loving friends!
My mate and I are hoping to go back to London for a week in July. It's my birthday on the 18th, Lord of the Rings closes on the 19th, so we want to see it again before it goes. I also want to do another week-long workshop there like the one I did last year, and he'll probably do it too. Good summer fun!
Then I have August to work the debts off...
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller