OT: A second book

[CTMilller]

Sent for it for the wife, thanks CT & good luck with it.

Thank you so much, Lolmorgan! If you get a chance let me know he she gets on with it.

[CTMilller]

Just been delivered by Amazon, looking forward to reading this and if it's anything like the first then I won't be disappointed.

I knew of this book when I last met up with CT and he told me he'd got it on hold. So glad he's managed to finally have it published.

For anyone who has not read 'Far Away And Further Back', I can highly recommend it as it's a great read.

Thanks for the promotion, Brin!

As I said to Sota, it's not so much a travel memoir as 'Far Away And Further Back' (though one chapter does explain my early fascination with the USA.) I hope it still pleases.

[Brin]

I’ve already read the first chapter. Likewise but in different circumstances, I too ‘knocked’ about with my closest and coincidentally, two best friends after school,

The bonds you make you hope are never broken until very late on in life. Alas, my most dearest friend who I first met in nursery school at the age of 4 years old and who I subsequently went through my entire school life with, was tragically killed at the young age of 32.

I sometimes upon reflection, bring his name up in conversation with my Wife. Even after 31 years later, I still hold him dear st heart, such is bonding with your true first friends.

[CTMilller]

A question Sir. Are they playing cards you are holding up to your nipples?

That should arouse some interest, heh Pidge

I had to go and check the picture which is up on the wall in this room!

On the right is a wallet and on the left a packet of 20 Dunhill cigarettes. Presume they happened to be conveniently in my hands when the picture was being taken. The photo is from 1969, the year I left school. We all smoked then, I suppose. Six of us bought an old Dormobile for twenty quid and did it up to drive down to the South of France to meet up with some girls. (I must have bought 200 Dunhill cigarettes duty-free on the ferry over. Couldn't normally afford them.)

We were driving through the pine forests outside Biarritz and the brakes were overheating and nearly seized. We stopped to let them cool down and free them off. The other lad, of course, is my pal, Howard, who crops up in the first and last stories and at least once more in another chapter.

We never got as far as the Med. The van was drinking oil and the exhaust was going so we turned back and went to Paris for a few days instead. 'Halikon Days' indeed!

[CTMilller]

I’ve already read the first chapter. Likewise but in different circumstances, I too ‘knocked’ about with my closest and coincidentally, two best friends after school,

The bonds you make you hope are never broken until very late on in life. Alas, my most dearest friend who I first met in nursery school at the age of 4 years old and who I subsequently went through my entire school life with, was tragically killed at the young age of 32.

I sometimes upon reflection, bring his name up in conversation with my Wife. Even after 31 years later, I still hold him dear st heart, such is bonding with your true first friends.

Sounds like some interesting parallels, Brin. Read on!

[avondalemiller]

I'll try it when i book the next holiday..................soon.

Just read Roger Daltry(again),,,it's his own side of the Who story, well worth a read on the beach...............

[CTMilller]

Thanks, avondalemiller. Let me know how you get on with it if you do.

Which of the Daltrey biographies was it? I'd like to give that a go. I've read the Moon and Entwhistle ones. ('Moon' was very good for the early days but, like the man, inevitably deteriorated badly into the squalor and madness of drugs, booze and willfulness. The Ox was good but I felt didn't go deep enough.)

[MILLERSTALE]

I'll try it when i book the next holiday..................soon.

Just read Roger Daltry(again),,,it's his own side of the Who story, well worth a read on the beach...............

You can borrow my copy !

[sota]

Thanks, Nobby! It's a bit different from the first one so I'm glad you're enjoying.

Interesting about your neighbour having the same ailment. (Is it the neighbour or one of his/her children? Tends to be something you're born with and from which you die if it's not treated...)

Lol (the Nobby bit ) 😊
He’s the same age as me within 4 days. He lives directly opposite us. I keep trying to catch him to ask him for the correct medical terminology so I can double check it’s the same thing. Sounds very similar though.
He must be out of town or on a biking trip. He’s the bloke I mentioned that rode across the US on his bike. He’s a very cool bloke….wears a Stones cycling jersey too 😊

[CTMilller]

Lol (the Nobby bit ) 😊
He’s the same age as me within 4 days. He lives directly opposite us. I keep trying to catch him to ask him for the correct medical terminology so I can double check it’s the same thing. Sounds very similar though.
He must be out of town or on a biking trip. He’s the bloke I mentioned that rode across the US on his bike. He’s a very cool bloke….wears a Stones cycling jersey too 😊

I remember you posting about him, Sota. Sounded quite a character so do hope what he has is as treatable as mine was all those years ago. It’ll be interesting to hear if it’s the same or similar.