Entry for October 29, 2007

I am off to a re-union of old school friends this evening. This was all planned a few months back, following a flurry of e-mails. I think that we have all reached (or are rapidly approaching) the age of 40 and have realised that, if we don't see each other soon, at least one of us will be dead. If the evening goes badly, of course, it may be that one of us is killed this evening as a result of the stirring up of some half-forgotten feud.
We're all meeting up at a Chinese restaurant in Larkhall. Inexplicably, the owners have missed out on the opportunity to name their establishment "The Orange Wok" which disappoints me no end. (I appreciate that this paragraph will mean nothing to readers outside the West of Scotland. Don't worry about it.)
I'm looking forward to the evening. I expect that we are now of an age where we will no longer converse about music and women as we did when we were in our late teens. Instead, I anticipate that we will swap stories about operations, gall stones and the price of Viagra.
It will be nice to be in the company of my peers.