I went to lunch at the home of my old friends Mr & Mrs VM, in Thames Town. Their daughter C was there, and her younger son D who is aged two-and-a-half. I hadn’t met him before. Also there were Mr & Mrs AR, Dr & Dr LA, Mrs SG and her friend Mr NT. Mr & Mrs VM’s son J also briefly put in an appearance.
I hadn’t met any of these friends of mine since late 2008. They expressed their condolences; I assured them that the Old Man’s death was in some ways a release for him.
Dr LA(f)’s mother, aged 82, is now in sheltered accommodation. Disconcertingly, she recently introduced her daughter to a group of her friends – people that Dr LA(f) had met a few times already.
Dr LA(f) is unenthusiastic about the NHS reforms that the Coalition government is proposing.
Dr LA(m) is optimistic that a cure for Alzheimer’s will be developed in the not-too-distant future – if the hypothesis that Alzheimer’s is attributable to beta amyloid plaques turns out to be correct.
One of Dr & Dr LA’s sons, who is aged 24, has a new girlfriend. She is aged 30, and is already asking him whether he plans to have children.
Sunday 30-1-11: time moves on
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