London

Back in London to Sarah and Iain’s. 

 

Joey and I lived in Wimbledon in 1992 and 1993 .We had a great time and made some friends we have kept in touch with as best as we are capable of. We caught up in Wimbledon on this trip.

Matt Bell. (Belly) was in the firsts when we left in. '1993 and had a game for them last year . Unbelievable.! Other than a couple of grey hairs at the temples he hasn't changed much at all.

Ben to the left and Belly , not to the left.

Speaking of unchanged – Ben’s missus Caroline (Caz) recently did a half marathon pb  and picked up the "time has stood still award" , narrowly edging Belly out. That's her in the middle below.

Debsy and Andy and Rob and Lisa Tudor ( see Wentworth post) came out to stay with us in Perth in 1994/5.

We had one of the greatest day ever in the surf at Yallingup. 

Most of the girls including Debs below.

Ben, see photo sbove with Belly, and I used to play 18 actual holes of golf then fire up the Sega mega drive for a full 72 hole tournament fuelled by a mid strength or two and a couple of kilo’s of onion bhaji’s. Bens mum used to also get in the industrial  sized packets of some round chip things in various flavours that we found were surprisingly  good for us. He was nigh on unbeatable and I eventually gave up after two and a half years. Looking back we probably could have given a little more to our careers in those days.

 

To everyone who came on that Thursday night that is reading this it was a huge highlight of the  trip.Thx again for coming out and staying out. 

Ben, Broshy, Belly, Sean, Farry and Craig, geez didn’t we solve some problems.

 

At midnight Ben rang one of the curry places we used to go to - who told us they were shutting up and suggested we should do the same. The second place Ben rang actually hung up on him. Surprised me as I was involved in the discussions by then.Fortunately that second place wasn’t too far away and we took from the dial tone that they were more comfortable talking about dining opportunities face to face so we wandered down to talk over old times.

 

2.30 we left there with barely an unsolved problem amongst the entire group.

We are off to Portugal tomorrow where my sister successfully secured two hot weak flat whites from the most unlikely of beachside cafés. See you then.