This gave me a little bit of unscheduled time to finally use the photos of the Millennium Baton that Alan Franklin had sent to me a few weeks earlier before rushing down town to do some shopping.
I needed to be at the cottage by 10 am but I had an extra hour this week before our guests arrived as they were practicing on the Billown Circuit for the classic racing. I planned to do some spring cleaning under he stairs and in the shed and then I visited the skips at the amenity sites on the way home.
I had been thinking about Graham Young all day! I had been invited to a small celebration for his 65th birthday the following day and planned to do a feature on the site. When I got back from the cottage I asked Marie if she thought the present I had bought him was appropriate and she told me that there were four messages on the answerphone from the previous day that I had not seen, all for me, including one from Graham.
I phoned him unsure whether he knew about the birthday party and after discussing the party for the Parish Walk's 50th anniversary I wished him a happy birthday and said that I hoped I would see him soon.
After spending the evening watching the Eurovision Song Contest (I was dozing by the second song!) I compiled the slightly shorter tribute to Graham's career skipping (for now) all the detailed stories I had planned to write earlier in the day - when the wine bottle was still full.
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