There's nothing as healing as the convivial warmth & comfort of sharing an evening with the friends of our youth. The expression old is gold flows through every culture, speaking to the quality & value of those we've loved longest. Thank you Martin Gibson for reminding me that once I was young, for pulling back the curtain on our #halcyon-days when London was ours for the taking as we ran about Mayfair & Shoreditch like neck-or-nothing young bloods of the fancy with #LieghBowery #IzzyBlow & #JoshuaCompston all of us utterly convinced of our immortality as we fluttered from opening to party to book launch acquiring & perfecting the refined #art of #small-talk. Ah small-talk once a precious essential skill, sadly fading like #thank-you-letters, #dance-cards & #White-Tie For Alas we are old now...at every turn at every mirror, we are reminded, yet in the words of #RobertFrost "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, & miles to go before I sleep... Well a few hundreds perhaps Thank you Martin for reminding me of our youthful larks & laughter. I carry you always in my heart, always you are in my prays...the Irish Loyalty both curse & comfort. Once I love I never let go - as two ex-husbands will attest! (at The Wolseley)