Then and Now SBC11

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This week's The Silverbloggers Chronicles - Prompt 11 is ....

Tell us about your best friend from childhood.

How did you meet your best or a special friend in your childhood? Are you still in touch?
Use your own photos if possible.?

Way back when in Norn Ireland

When I was a wee bairn I did grow up in Northern Ireland until I was 5.

We lived next door to a family similar ages to us. Their oldest child was a wee boy like me. We would go wandering round Lurgan where we lived together.

Unfortunately due to The Troubles my father was forced to move back to Scotland.

We used to play at Lurgan Park.

It may well have been where I got my love of swans and ducks.

It was also a place our mothers were a bit paranoid about lol.

Don't got swimming Edward and C I remember hearing!

He was some boy though, and would knock on our front door when he wanted to go out playing. The only problem was that he could not pronounce Edward properly.

So he would say ...

Can Abed come out to play!

To this day Mrs T loves to bring up when she is in teasing mode!

Of course over time we lost touch. Our parents would exchange the annual Christmas cards but that stopped once they passed away.

The daft bastard

At school in Edinburgh I had a few friends from where we lived and a few from the school itself. But once I moved into boarding school my best friend came from Fife. From Anstruther in fact. It was quite handy, as sometimes his parents would take him for the weekend and I would catch a life to go see my grandma in the next village along Pittenween.

R was a bit of a nutter. Whilst I was sporty he was more musical and I got to learn a lot of bands from him.

We both smoke and drank and got in a heap of trouble, but hey it is all growing up. I left Edinburgh when I was 15 to move to Orkney and we lost touch.

When I went to Uni in Edinburgh I did hear that he was living in Edinburgh.

I was about to meet him, when I found the daft bastard had died of a heroin overdose. That was when Edinburgh was the undisputed European heroin capital!

At uni in Edinburgh I shared flats and bedsits with my best friend Chris.

He was from Kirkcaldy where I live now, and when I saw this double rainbow this evening I took it as a sign that I need to write this tonight.

He loved pizza and even tried to get me to like his favourite ham and pineapple lol

So when I saw the rainbow and Papa Johns I said yep gonna do the post today.

He was a great guy and studied Computer Science. He ended up joining the navy and become a helicopter pilot.

He then Bristows a helicopter company and would fly choppers out to oil rigs.

One summer when I was working in Africa we agreed to goto a football tournament with a few other friends.

As it turned out some others in his company wanted to go and Chris being the nice guy let them.

They went on holiday and watched the football whilst he went to work and flew oil workers to and from oil platforms.

When I return back to Africa from the football I realised that he was on of the pilots killed in a crash.

That is perhaps my one regret in life, that I hadn't forced him to come with us to the football and not be the nice guy for once.

We only live a couple minutes walk from where his parents live and whenever I goto the park to feed the swans I often think of him and our antics.

I think the Universe delivered the rainbows as a sign that all is okay with them up there.

What about you? How did you meet your best or a special friend in your childhood? Are you still in touch??

Let me know in the comments! And why not join in with the fun and start your Chronicle!?

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!

My previous Chronicles ... are :-
Prompt 1 Colour ~ my Chronicle 1
Prompt 2 Joy ~ my Chronicle 2
Prompt 3 Hometown ~ my Chronicle 3
Prompt 4 Wheels ~ my Chronicle 4
Prompt 6 Memory recipe ~ my Chronicle 6
Prompt 7 summer holidays ~ my Chronicle 7
Prompt 8 Moves ~ my Chronicle 8
Prompt 9 back in time ~ my Chronicle 9
Prompt 10 Life of an Object ~ my Chronicle 10
Prompt 11 Childhood friend ~ my this one ...

All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated..

DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND DO IT OFTEN

Haste Ye Back!

@tengolotodo September 11th 2025

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