Touring

For LL in the UK

If you have been 'following' me LL, you will have figured out that I am on a short tour of the UK. I hasten to add that I am not alone either. After London at the beginning of last week, I spent some time with friends and at my home in Cambridge. Then we travelled north to York where we spent a couple of days. Durham was our next stop mainly because I spent time at University there back in the 1980's.

Our latest stop is Edinburgh. I'm here tonight and tomorrow then onward. Wonder where that will be? Well, I don't have to wonder, but you may. It's not often I travel all the way around the UK but this trip is special for both of us.

Soon it will be back to London and then away to Europe and other 'friends'.

You really did me the biggest favor ever when you played away. I would never be where I am now if it hadn't been for your playing away. Strange how just one event can change a persons life. What you did behind my back, certainly changed mine and very, very much for the better. I guess you may have figured that out by now.

It's not been a bad life overall. A naval career, a banking career and in the last twenty plus years a multi-millionaire (billionaire in fact). I lost two wives to death's clutches but they were both wonderful people - one English, the other American. These days there is no talk of marriages, just good times, very good times with a variety of 'friends'.

Then there's you - the loser, and you are the loser, which I'm sure you realise. Of course over the past nearly fourteen years you have come to terms with it, but I know you regretted your decision and your actions. Remember what you said? 'Why do I always make the wrong decisions'. I think it was a question, but it also works in a rhetorical way, too.

Sad really, not so much for me but for you. I had very strong feelings for you back then, but now? You hold no attraction for me whatsoever.

I'll write more as I graze past your neck of the woods...and I do know where your neck of the woods is, of course. Not that I will be paying you a visit, of course. Nothing could be further from my mind.

We were getting along just fine back in the day, but ma'am you really and truly know how to mess things up and your life along with it. Look where you are now - with a grossly overweight soccer fanatic whose ego is almost as large as his gut. You aren't doing too badly yourself either.

On that note we are off to dinner.

Ciao