My day started Ok as I had slept in (as I have today) waking at 5.30 but have had a great full nights sleep, it does make you feel so much better. The weather was colder and damper but Ok. I had a phone call from Jock as he had been to see Peter who has cancer and was in a hospice, I knew the end was near and Jock said how shocked he had been to see Peters condition.
I put the telly on and watched for the first time the Cenotaph and the Festival of Remembrance. I haven't watched this before as I'm usually at Blackheath Rally having been to the great fireworks display laid on every year there. So this year I was best home in the warm. I cried my eyes out with all the music and it did seem to be more about our young men fighting abroad in the modern wars. It brings it all home to see the role call of the soldiers that have given their lives-- 18 and 20 year olds that haven't even lived life yet. Poppy day has become modern in the eyes of modern men. When it was finished we went for a walk around the park for some fresh air and I came back and pottered around tidying up and helping Ray. We made a Roast Beef dinner together late in the afternoon and then I watched X factor results which has become a controversy as the twins were nearly voted out--- but they have appealed to me as they are so full of life and fun and so young. It's what is needed a bit more of in this world FUN!
I received info on how the MCC rally at Blackheath went so Ray and I wrote a report out for the Kent MCC web page and Ray loaded it on with some photo's we had and so Our first report was done.
Then the phone went and when Ray said Hello Jock I knew Peter had died. I just knew my friend had gone. I was right and I have lost a dear friend that has helped me and answered all the questions I have had when I first started treatment when I found out that I to had Cancer.
I waited until it was announced on the forum of MHF and I entered my thoughts but I was so sad-- I have lost a wonderful man a partner in crime that I wont be able to talk too anymore. Goodnight darling Peter xxxGod Bless.
