I took the train down to Winchester last week to meet up with an old friend for a pint (see above), a gossip and some food at the Wykeham Arms. I hadn't seen this chap since we were 10 years old (over 50 years ago!), when our families used to live in Portsmouth and we were best buddies at junior school, we only knew each other for a couple of years as my family moved away and his remained and we never kept in touch. Anyway, he found me on Facebook a while back and we determined to meet up and chew the fat over old times, last Friday evening we did just that.
It was great fun remembering our school days and the many times we got into trouble and it was interesting that I remembered events that he didn't and vice versa. It was also very spooky that, over the last 50 years, we'd lead very similar lives, he'd ended up in the technology industry much like me and we both travelled around the world with our work and ended up back in the UK with grown up families and lives in the leafy home counties. We ended the evening around 8pm as I had to catch a train back to Reading but we agreed that we'd meet again soon for a "re-match", now that I'm retired it's great to be able to do such things at anytime...
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