Freya's call to her late brother
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00:30Well, I didn't think I'd be making this phone call, but this is a bright, crisp, sunny
00:50winter's day in England, and what does it make me think of?
00:56I'm down by the beach.
00:57Well, I'm in the Japanese Garden, Carl, but it's right opposite the beach, do you remember?
01:02Coming down and we'd sit there together, and you always said one day you'd like a chair
01:07in your name down there.
01:08Well, maybe we'll do that one day, but do you know what?
01:11Let me tell you, and I'm probably going to talk about things a lot, so you're not going
01:16to get a few words in edgeways with me, are you?
01:20I went to Liverpool Airport recently, the old Speak Airport.
01:25I haven't been there since I was 18 or 19, and I was taken there by a friend as a surprise,
01:31and it just brought back so many memories, memories of you and me, and you're what we
01:37were like at that age.
01:38If I was 18 or 19, you'd be three years younger, and it made me get some photos out when I
01:44went home, and do you remember our lovely German Shepherd, Cheetah?
01:51God knows how we got that name actually, Cheetah, she was a German Shepherd, strange name, but
01:57we used to go across to the park, do you remember the park in Birchfield Road?
02:02So we'd go into the park and sit, and I've got a photograph of me in my Danae uniform,
02:09yeah you remember it, yeah, wearing my Danae uniform, and you're sat with me on the park
02:13bench with the dog at our feet, and I'm telling you about the stories and the things that
02:17went on at the airport, and do you remember, a few years later when I was there, oh, you
02:24know, crazy teenager, 19, I got to walk right through the airport with the Walker Brothers,
02:29oh what a joy that was, and I met John Walker years later at the King's Theatre in Southsea,
02:36not that he remembered me as an older lady, but he did remember being in Liverpool, and
02:42I said I'd fallen madly in love with him, and his wife burst out laughing, not jealous,
02:48they were seniors, he's passed now sadly, but a lovely memory, and what else, what else
02:54can I tell you, yeah, Gerald Durrell came into my office at Liverpool Airport, and I
02:59fed his baby monkeys, they'd chartered one of our aeroplanes, and the aeroplane had a
03:05problem and we couldn't leave them on board overnight, so I brought them in, and I fed
03:10this baby monkey and it was such a joy, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm glad you remember that story,
03:17yeah, do you know what I do remember though, Cole? I remember a time, me little, dressed
03:23like a fairy tutu girl, going to ballet classes, I don't even know if you were born when I
03:28first started ballet, but by the time I was seven, you certainly were, because you were
03:33three years younger, anyway, I got interested in fairies, and you were really, really good,
03:38do you remember you used to buy fairies for me, and when you drove down this way, because
03:44you were a coach driver, you'd bring me fairies and they were all over my garden, and it,
03:50do you know what, it got me into writing fairy stories too, and it's kind of like I'm coming
03:56full circle, Cole, you know, the trip to Liverpool Airport, I say it's the all speak airport,
04:03not the new big John Lennon one, really set me back on a new course of thinking about
04:08where my life had been, and how I miss talking to you, how I miss your voice, tragic that
04:15you're no longer here, it was not a nice way to have to say goodbye to you, but I remember
04:21all the good stuff, so if I get to write all the nice things that happened in my life,
04:28because I'm thinking of writing my life story, Cole, you know, all those things I've told
04:32you over the years, that some people have heard and others haven't, I thought maybe
04:36it's about time I sat down and I wrote it, and there might be a fairy or two springing
04:41up in it as well, good memories, Cole, yeah, your voice, gosh, not that I had a Liverpool
04:49accent, though some of it comes out occasionally, but do you remember going down to see Nana,
04:55Auntie Margie and Uncle George, and we'd have Sunday lunch in relays, and George would
05:00always say, hey girl, get in here girl, get in here girl, it's your turn now, and I'd
05:05be queuing up to get my roast potatoes and my roast lamb, it's still what I do, Sunday
05:11roast lunch, one of the things I really, really miss, most of all, I miss you, Cole, I miss
05:19our conversations, I miss your smile, I've got the fairies, yeah, yeah, and I remember
05:28that too, thank you for reminding me, yeah, do you know what, if I write my story, Cole,
05:35if it touches somebody else's heart, then it was worthwhile, you're with me every single
05:41day, every morning, when I wake up, I do a meditation, and every evening before I go
05:47to sleep, and in my mind's eye, I draw the little treble clef, and I link it to what
05:53I call my soul star, and my earth star, and I think of you, and everything you brought
05:59into my life, your love, your laughter, the music, your crazy antics as a kid, I remember
06:05you cutting up a sweater, oh god, that just came, yeah, you cut up your sweater, you were
06:10hiding in the dresser, weren't you, mum thought it was the cat, Tiddles, what a name, hey,
06:15because she did, and it wasn't, it was you sitting inside the bottom of the Welsh dresser,
06:21cutting up your sweater, because you didn't like it, it was one of those v-neck, what
06:26do they call them, Fair Isle ones, that's it, yeah, so, lovely memories, Cole, yeah,
06:33yeah, I guess maybe it is time to go now, but ending it on a really lovely note, the
06:40note is, you tuned my guitar, you put it back in tune, you found the key of C, hey, yeah,
06:47for Colin, you tuned my guitar, it's still in my lounge, you're with me every day, love
06:53you lots, Cole, bye for now.