Friends

I’m a person that doesn’t really have loads of close friends but seemingly a large circle of associates. My main two close friends are Gary and Dave who I met in my first job when I left school, which was when I was 15, we are still very close now all these years later. Dave is a computer boffin and Gary now works over in Hong Kong as a fabric technologist and both are married. Apart from that I have some really good mates in my local that would help with anything should I need it. I also have a couple of good female mates too. Then of course there’s my eccentric work mates, though they would call me eccentric too, having spent many hours with them working nights we’ve got to know each other well and they are good lads. Then there are hundreds of other people I know from socialising, work – past and present, the internet and just everyday characters in general.

So what is the point to this blog you ask?

Well this week has shown me just what friendships are about, the warm glow they sometimes give you. It sort of felt like Christmas for me this week. Pat, my self styled cynical wookie friend from London sent me a parcel with two really fantastic books he’d managed to lay his hands on as he works in comic / marketing industry. Earlier in the week my mobile died on me and Dave came to the rescue and gave me a replacement from his mobile museum of phones. Then on Tuesday Gary arrived from Hong Kong on a trip home and he’d brought me several gifts from there including memory cards and computer games.

Friendships aren’t all about gifts though, I guess I just wanted to say how good I felt this last week. I’m happy having a few good friends that matter to me, than having loads that don’t.

(p.s I think Pat sent me the parcel to make up for letting me down over the Zodiac Mindwarp gig)