Friendship is a great topic of conversation. I reckon the great test of friendship is when you meet up again after too long and pick up just where you left off, as if you'd last seen each other yesterday.

Happened to me a year or two back. Walked into a pub, quite by chance and noticed a handbill on the bar advertising a monthly folk night. Never did much about it until I found out it was being run by some-one I'd known at a folk club when I was knee high to a gnat. Phoned him up and spent at least an hour on the phone. Showed up at the folk night and it was like we'd only seen each other last Tuesday. Magic.

Songs can be great friends too. There's one particular song I sing that has a great rhythm for walking home to. Whenever I sing it, there in the background are all the times I trudged, bounced or just plain walked homeward. There is another song that can only, really, be sung when you are walking along the coast. Difficult to arrange in an open mic!

Pass the cookies please Jerry.....oh no! They've almost gone!

Best wishes,

Peter