Ha! Forgot to add that I met an old pal in the street yesterday...actually an XBoyfriend from 25 years ago. We must have gone out for six months or a year when I was in my early 20s? And then a good few years after we'd spilt up our paths crossed and we became pals. We had a nice catch up chat and a few laughs yesterday, mainly about politics (he was a political cartoonist in his previous life). He kept saying that I totally didn't look the age I am. Not in a trying-it-on kind of way, for sure, more in a how-have-you-found-the-elixir-of-youth kind of way. Went our separate ways and I felt happy to have good friends who know and like me for being me. Something that I've really come to understand and appreciate since October 2015.
And then I also met XH's cousin in the street late yesterday afternoon. I always liked her, she was always very lively, talkative and open. Anyway, she kept saying how amazing I looked, the picture of health, so tanned and lean (tanned isn't ever a given here in Scotland in the summer - the sun's never strong enough). She was very friendly, as she always had been. I genuinely enjoyed our few minute's chat...threw in some of the things I'd been GALing with over the past couple of years and left it at that.
