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Unhappy 28th.
Topic Started: Oct 28 2016, 09:37 AM (69 Views)
Rich
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Today I have taken annual leave to attend a funeral of one of my lifelong friends, he was 55 and died from Emphysema.

Way back then we formed a football team called Micklands FC and played in both the saturday and sunday Reading Football league

All of us lads grew up together, went to school together and in later years clubbed together, they really were halcyon days.

As we grew up most of us hung our boots up in our late twenties and took on the responsibilities of marriage and raising families.

There was 15 of us all together, we drifted apart and moved to various points of the compass, today I will see some mates that I have not seen for 20 odd years, I am sure it will be emotional and no doubt we will retire to the nearest watering hole afterwards and catch up with each other.....there are 10 of us left now and I am the oldest.

Jacko was one of a family of 12 and there is now only 5 of them left.

RIP, my mate Colin "Jacko" Williams.  :(
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Steve K
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Sorry to read that Rich. Hope the day goes as well as such can
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Affa
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Remembering the Good Times helps. When you think of Jacko all you will experience is how he was, how you were, when mortality was never even cared for.

RIP Jacko.
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Oddball
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RIP to your mate, Rich. As Affa says, think on the good times, perhaps see some of the survivours more more often. Not sure what else to say - if you were an active Christian I would suggest you prayed for him, and live in hope that one day you will meet up again in a far better place.
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johnofgwent
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It .. It is GREEN !!
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You bring my mind back to about this time last year when there wasn't room to stand as a colleague of mine of some 35 years went to meet his gas mark twelve ... Jeff was a twenty a day man and knew damn well what it was going to do to him, the first stroke flattened him and the second a few months later finished him off. He was a year or two older than me.

He demanded a "celebration" devoid of vicars and "went out" to a button press by his brother that kicked off "Riders On The Storm"

Jeff was a polymath and a splendid piano / organ / synth player, a connoisseur of music from classic through rock to punk. The world really became an emptier and more boring place as we left that afternoon. And I never thought I'd ever say that ...

It also became slightly more terrifying as it was about then it hit home my best mate who lives across the river was he oldest amongst that gathering, and I'm next in line behind him and neother of us are really in rude health .... Was that an indistinct dark figure i saw at the back of the crowd wearing an inane grin and flashing a steely agricultural implement ?

If it was I hope I kicked it in the nadgers on the way out.
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