Don’t read this post if you are just a petrolhead or only interested in Morgans, it’s about life and death.
I was going to write this post before last Christmas but not tiled the above , more like Old Men Muttering . I stupidly got a bit upset at some argument that had nothing to do with me and stopped posting for a week or so.
Well every year near Christmas, a group of male ‘friends’ meet up for a meal and a get together to catch up if we haven’t seen each other during the year.
There was a Swedish guy who is married to a vivacious Italian woman who has an internationally famous chef niece. Why we end up at average restaurants when she could guide us is a mystery, plus there is a Michelin place yards from where we went and all live, plus others locally !
So he has had a Lamborghini Espada being rebuilt over the last four years. The usual tale of delay, legal threats, then out of the blue all new valves needed making but definitely this year a planned drive to Italy and then Sweden.
My best mate, a plumber or as we reprinted his stationery for his largish company, an environmental enterprise. He wooed his wife with several Lotus cars but now is sensible with a big Volvo.
The third guy is a Welsh chap , a well known Professor of Medicine. He spent 30 years wowing Californian women with his wonderful Welsh voice, like Burton and driving old English sports cars but not a Morgan. He brought one home , wife not car !
The next guy is a musician who still plays with Rock Royalty but is often bemused . We left his place set up but he failed to show up. Probably arrived the next day but later told us he forgot.
The next friend has not lost his Yorkshire accent and was in international advertising man Living in France for some years and doing those car ads at the time certain French brands were popular - mainly down to him. He hates cars now but set up some Silver surfer, Grey Nomad type agency at the end of his career and sold it to fund his retirement.
Then there is me. Enough said, I’m an open book.
So we talked about Glory Days, past cars, past lives, previous and current wives, kids and lots of Politics. Most anti Starmer, most anti Labour and all worried about the country. Par for the course and the demographic of the guys ?
Well sadly, whilst we are away in Spain we have been told Lamborghini man will not get his final glorious summer road trip, he died over the weekend..
The moral of the story is obvious, often repeated by Richard +8 and Graham but we will set a place for him at our Christmas get together so as to remember his good times and tales.
Another person we know also died at the weekend.
Best to all of you, enjoy what you have . Michael
Mike so sorry to read of you losing two old friends, that really is a big blow and sadly as you alluded to, you Graham and I discussed this on the occasions that we met on our TM mini tours in your neck of the woods Dorset way last year.
It was a joy to have you join us on each occasion for many reasons and the strongest being your sense of humour mixed with self deprocation - being ex Rugby too you are the complete package and a crazy so fitted in so well to our little group and we look forward to the next meeting.
Malcolm enjoyed your company too when he showed up with his Max on one of our visits, always so many funny life stories to tell like yourself and so personable.
Take care and enjoy your journeying despite your losses as I am sure they would have liked that to see you pressing on and not wasting time mourning over them but celebrating their lives in a positive way..
