In 1972 my best friend Loretta told me she had met a man she rather liked at Cyrano’s cafe in Hampstead ...
A little while later she brought him to visit us and our new son in Highgate .. Roo always joked that the first thing I asked him to do was to put his swimming trunks on (the flat we lived in had use of a pool!). it was the start of a friendship that lasted 48 years with Peter having the honour of being best man at their wedding.
Shortly after - on a cold winters day - we were invited to a house warming dinner in their new home.
Roo excitedly told us he was making a barbecue - we were astonished as it was pouring with rain but Roo told us that we did not need to worry as he had just knocked out the blocked chimney breast and was grilling in the living room fireplace! That dinner was the first of many many joyful wonderful hours spent with a couple whose love for each other was clear to all who knew them and whose generous loving household was always a joy to visit.
Roo was greatly loved by us both, uncompromising, generous to a fault, highly intelligent (except when enquiring when he had shingles, “what’s a shingle for?”) rebellious, totally his own man who against all the odds and because of his resilience and hard work became successful with a wonderful family who he adored.
We have rosemary plants in Studland that he planted many years ago - they were tiny but now are enormous. When I sent him photographs of them when he was in hospital he said “they need a haircut - like me!”
I cut them regularly and think of him ........
In 1972 my best friend Loretta told me she had met a man she rather liked at Cyrano’s cafe in Hampstead ...
A little while later she brought him to visit us and our new son in Highgate .. Roo always joked that the first thing I asked him to do was to put his swimming trunks on (the flat we lived in had use of a pool!). it was the start of a friendship that lasted 48 years with Peter having the honour of being best man at their wedding.
Shortly after - on a cold winters day - we were invited to a house warming dinner in their new home.
Roo excitedly told us he was making a barbecue - we were astonished as it was pouring with rain but Roo told us that we did not need to worry as he had just knocked out the blocked chimney breast and was grilling in the living room fireplace! That dinner was the first of many many joyful wonderful hours spent with a couple whose love for each other was clear to all who knew them and whose generous loving household was always a joy to visit.
Roo was greatly loved by us both, uncompromising, generous to a fault, highly intelligent (except when enquiring when he had shingles, “what’s a shingle for?”) rebellious, totally his own man who against all the odds and because of his resilience and hard work became successful with a wonderful family who he adored.
We have rosemary plants in Studland that he planted many years ago - they were tiny but now are enormous. When I sent him photographs of them when he was in hospital he said “they need a haircut - like me!”
I cut them regularly and think of him ........
