w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

Today's lyric:
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"We met when we were in school
Never took no shit from no one, we weren't fools
The teacher says we're dumb
We're only having fun
We piss on everyone
In the classroom."

The Clash: "Stay free"
From the album: "Give 'em enough rope"

30 years ago, my best mate from college came to dinner, having just spent 6 months in 'open' for drug-related offences. He got easily wrecked on two glasses of whisky and then disappeared abroad, never to be heard from again.

We guessed it was to sever himself from a life which was leading him seriously astray. But he was missed.

Despite regular searches of Friends Reunited etc., we never did manage to make contact again, during the whole lifetime which has unrolled and unravelled since that night.

So when we got home yesterday, and Mrs.D. picked up the postcard from Thailand that Number One Son had left on the 'phone table, all she could repeat was "Oh my God!"

Phil had sent us his e-mail address, with a behest to get in touch? Jeez, there is so much to tell and hear about. Where would you start?

And lord knows from where he got our address?

When we parted for what, I believe, neither of us knew was to be the final time, I forgot to give him the record I'd bought for his release, from which the lyrics above are taken. I've still got the vinyl album. Maybe I'll be able to deliver that gift, one day now?

Labels: Red Letter Days