A thousand words...

I am sharing this completely delicious picture painted by a friend of mine as I float today  in a bubble of nostalgia.  
I went to boarding school as a  child and as anyone who has experienced this will tell you, the friendships  you make at such a school are quite different from other friendships.  Boarders inevitably become surrogate  family. Powerful memories. Strong glue…
 During my telly years, I tended to  struggle to keep up all my friendships – what with two small children and five live programmes each week - but working as a freelance writer has allowed me to  realign priorities and I have been meeting up with my old boarding school pals  pretty much every year…for more than a  decade.
 This last week we  all got together to celebrate the 75th anniversary of our school and one of our  number Gale McGarry brought along some pictures of her latest paintings for an  exhibition this coming Friday – June 21st. Wow. I always knew that Gale was a  talented artist but my  goodness.
 And so I share the details here not  as any great sales pitch and not with any great expectation that all my lovely
writer pals will have the time or funds to attend her exhibition in Odiham,  England but simply because they will make you smile. (And – don’t we all need a  smile.)

 So three cheers for nostalgia  bubbles  and catching up with the  people we care about.  

Link to Gale’s “happy,  shiny” pictures     Exhibition from Fri June 21 (preview) The Frame, High Street, Odiham, England.

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