So last weekend we were down in Yorkshire for a very flying visit, mainly so that I could meet up with these lovely ladies
This is the 'Leeds Dorothy Dunnett Group, with Leeds in inverted comments since one lives in Salford and one in Lincoln. We used to get together 5 or 6 times a year and obviously they still do and although when we first moved here I used to join them by phone it wasn't a success and it petered out.
Last year, as some of you may remember, one of the group died and since then I have made more effort to keep in touch with the group as a whole and joined them in Leeds in March and again last weekend in Harrogate. It is a ridiculously long way to go for a day, although the plan is normally to combine it with other things that take us to mainland Britain. Logistically that didn't work out this time, but like I found with opera, you don't realise how much you're missing something until you get that first experience of it again. I will be back with this group again at the end of July. Some friendships fall away as we get older because of the way life patterns itself, but some, especially those made in the 'settled' years are worth keeping in good repair, and this is a whole set of them that fall into that category.
Meanwhile having mentioned opera, we're off to Inverness on Tuesday to see their new production of La Boheme which, depending on what you read is either sumptuous or totally OTT. All I know is, we sponsored the donkey, so it had better be good!
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