Wednesday 3rd July 2024 Brian’s Birthday Bash
As the title suggests, today the lads are celebrating the occasion of Brian’s birthday with a visit to the West Yorkshire town of Saltaire. They plan to carry out a circular walk which will include walking along the canal bank and then return along the riverbank ending up at the Boathouse Inn for a lunch time meal.
It was a group of seven that participated in the walk, those being Colin, Mark, Derek, Dave, Glenn, Malcolm and of course Birthday Boy himself Brian, joining them for the meal would be Keith, who would be in for a memorable surprise. John unfortunately having to withdraw from this outing due to last minute commitments.
The seven lads doing the walk met up at the railway station in Saltaire at about 10:45, from the station it is just a short distance down to the canal side and the beginning of their 3 mile walk. It was a pleasurable walk with the odd siting of wildlife ,the weather stayed favourable with no rain falling upon us at all. Along the way we sang the customary happy birthday song for the pleasure of Brian with some other fellow walkers joining our rendition.
We were scheduled to meet up with Keith outside the Boathouse Inn at about 12:15 and that was what happened, a table had been pre booked for 12:30 so they were expecting our group. It wasn’t too long before we found ourselves seated at the cafe and ordering our drinks along with our individual preferred meal options.With our lunches enjoyed the conversation turned to future plans and travel arrangements along with a surprise presentation for Keith.
A few weeks earlier he had celebrated his 80th birthday, so to honour this event the rest of the Lads had clubbed together and purchased a most memorable gift in acknowledgement of the true friendship that they share with him, he was truly gratefully overwhelmed by this gesture.
Upon reflection today’s celebrations were what can be achieved through great friendships .
Well Done Everyone.
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