Twenty Years Ago Already

My friend and I met up for our occasional Breakfast get together and the local market was on which meant we could have a quick glance around and I bought a Simnel Cake (Simnel cake is a fruitcake associated with Lent and Easter and widely eaten in the United Kingdom, Ireland and countries with patterns of migration from them. It is distinguished by layers of almond paste or marzipan, typically one in the middle and one on top, and a set of eleven balls made of the same paste.)

I haven't had one of these for more than 15 years I guess.  The 11 marzipan balls are arranged in a circle on top, representing the loyal apostles of Jesus. These balls symbolize the disciples minus Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus. 

So we both bought one from the market and then had breakfast when my friend said that it was 20 years ago that he was made redundant and of course it was 20 years ago that I started my wonderful job of a life time and of course, both of us, in the July were undergoing Cancer treatment. 

It is a distant memory and we don't really talk much about it but as July comes into view we both get the odd flashback or just feel strange around that time of year.  I tried to summarize this blog at one time and worked on it but actually I made myself very uneasy and had to stop.  There's only so many reenactments of treatments that you can endure and the human brain is great at forgetting things that should be forgotten.  

But twenty years hardly seems possible.