More than 20 years ago, some good friends achieved their life ambition and emigrated to America and, eventually, Hawaii. During the intervening years, we often promised to 'go visit' their coffee farm, with its donkeys and goats rescued from the locals' barbecues. This year, we finally made it and it was all you could expect.
Within a month of us returning home, we learned that she's hosting a particularly virulent cancer, so the farm is up for sale, the animals have been re-homed and the web-site which advertised their beautiful holiday accommodation and surroundings, has been taken down. Their entire life and plans for retirement have been completely blitzed.
So, people - my first post will include that well-worn but absolutely sincere exhortation to treat every day as if it was your last. One day, it will be and generally, you don't get to choose it.
Drinking and Driving (but clearly not simultaneously)
