Old Friends...

Hitting the North Circular once again we are heading back south to spend the day with friends we met 37 years ago. We met Peter and Sue Swiss before they were married and while they were on their first date… Peter was a friend of John Savage who I worked with in my first English job in 1968 at Reid and Campbell, a Fire Extinguisher Rental Company; I started work there just two weeks after we were married. We were unable to attend Peter and Sue’s wedding in early 1970 but they remember us sending them a Telegram from Dubrovnik in the old Yugoslavia where we were touring (and sleeping) in our old London Taxi cab at the time.

Peter became our English Dentist not only for us but also for our children when we returned to the UK in 1977; he firstly visited us in Australia in 1973 and has since visited us regularly every couple of years or so in his capacity as a consultant to the British Medical Defence Union.

It was lovely to visit their beautiful little Village of Warnham, near Horsham in Surrey once again, I almost found their home without help, we were actually in the street right beside their home and only 20 feet from the front gate when I doubted myself and gave them a ring. We enjoyed a brisk walk through some rather muddy lanes, a good warming lunch and sitting by the open fire while we poured over photos of their three beautiful little grand daughters, their grown up two sons and daughter-in-laws as well as a lot of photos from my lap top. Thanks for a really lovely day Peter and Sue.