Today was a day for travelling back : to people, places and sounds.

Foir the first time in months I got to see Amanda and her bump. She’s doing well, perhaps a little cautious about what will happen in two months but happy and at last winding down her work to rest. We met up at an old antiques haunt of ours for tea and cake and a rummage for paintings and furniture then onto the town she used to live in for lunch, baby clothes shopping and to catch up on each other’s news.

It was odd to be back there but nice for us both. Some good memories.

This evening I was out at a stage show which re-created the radio show, Around the Horne. I grew up with radio but never heard this show until recently. The show was excellent, recreating an old BBC radio theatre and the characters who appeared in the show.

Sitting listening in the darkness I could have been back in the 50’s watching it made, just like at lunchtime, sitting in the daylight, I could have been back 5 years.