New Lives - Different Lives

LL

As you head for your October vacation on the Costa del Sol soon, I wondered if you might like to borrow my convertible Aston Martin:))) It's garaged in Marbella and wouldn't look out of place on the front at Puerto Banus. Why do you two always leave it until October? Next week is looking cloudy. (It's 82C here and no cloud). Where would you prefer.....

In fact why always the same old place? So boring!

Funny old thing life, isn't it. There you are in a rut, when that's exactly what you once said you didn't want, There you are with the ultimate fat guy, when that was exactly what you didn't want. Do you know that I still weigh 12 stone 7 lbs and have a 36 inch waste with my belt on the last notch - the narrowest notch that is. Of course you know my life is anything but in a rut. I bet you reflect, in those quiet times when you are alone, that you made a major mistake when you played around. Very, very foolish on your part, wasn't it. I bet you would never admit though. You almost did once though, with that remark about always making the wrong decisions - you were right on that latter point.

Events launch us into lives we never imagined, don't they. There was I very happy in a life with my late wife and family, when cancer cruelly snatched her from me. From there to a very dark place which I was only just beginning to surface from when I met you. That life was something I never anticipated either. Falling in love with you, only to find you were spreading yourself (literally) around with other men while maintaining a relationship with me. You broke my heart then, so quickly after having had it broken with the loss of my late wife.

You have the occasional correct insight. You said I was strong and would recover from what you did to me. That was spot on. I already had you worked out in 2004 and had started to move on then, long before you eventually threw your lot in with the fat man. Events again intervened and I entered a third incarnation of my life when I met Ash, my wife of the last 9 years. I haven't looked back since - except to remind you of what a fool you were.

So Spain for you, briefly. Me, I am off to Singapore in a couple of weeks, then a month in Australia. Your snatched vacations don't compare do they. I'll be around Brisbane, Noosa and down in New South Wales. We have a new apartment in the latter. I think I told you.

In the meantime let me jog your memory of happier times with some recent photos of places near my home, here in Florida.

Pretty good isn't it. The warmth is all enveloping - remember? Stepping outside from the bedroom first thing into such a warm and sunny day is something you just don't get where you are, and rarely on your repetitive vacations to the same place.

No hard feelings, so as they say here - Enjoy! By the time you return I'll be about to head off to Singapore and Australia.

No worries mate! None whatsoever - money really does make a difference.

Ciao