This morning while perusing the forums there came a knock on my door, it was my good friend and neighbour up the road, “We have the grand kids up this weekend, but thought that we might get a Chinese takeaway in on Saturday, so why don’t you come up around 6 p.m. and we can have a few drinks together, a few others will be there”
He then listed the other people and all were very good friends and neighbours who have been so kind to me in the past year. Now I am not daft and I know the reason behind this invitation and the significance of the start time, I also know that my mate is like me, tough on the outside and not one to show his feelings. I know why he is doing this and I know he would just pass this off as having a few beers with the lads, but I know differently.
So in a generally shitty world it is your friends that rally round you and offer comfort and support, it is those same friends who watch out for you and it is those same friends that you can never really thank because you cannot find the right words to do so. If you try they will just brush it off with embarrassment and make light of what they have done for you. We will no doubt sit around eating our meal, having a few drinks long into the evening and chatting together and no doubt the subject will raise its head, but it will be amongst friends and not just someone sitting alone and remembering. By the time I get back home I will be a bit tipsy and very tired and tumble into bed and soon it will be another new day and maybe that is their intention.
They will never know that I have told you all about them or the gratitude I feel for having such good friends and neighbours, but I felt I had to share this with you.
and willing you on! 
to you all.
