The Visit

We made one (and only one) visit to a friend before Christmas this year...mostly on account of Missy being home for the first time since early September.  Eighteen and a half years ago June was praying for my wife's labour to last a little bit longer than my wife would have liked, for the simple and selfish reason that the new arrival and June could share the same birth date - and that is indeed how things panned out.  So June has been a constant in Missy's life ever since and was longing to hear all the news from Uni and the City of Oxford.  We're all triple-jabbed but I was still a little nervous - June isn't as young as she used to be and well, the rest of us have our health issues too but we decided this would be our one-and-only visit of the season and we'd keep it short.   I took the 'Blad - probably not the best choice for indoor shooting in the dark days of December.   The scene metered about 1 second and without a tripod I was forced to prop the camera up on a footstool.  The result was predictably soft:

Missy and her life-long friend June, December 2021.  Hasselblad/50mm, FP4+ in HC-110, on Foma 313.

There's over a 60-year age difference between these two ladies.  I think we all, in our different ways, got a lot out of our visit.  But the next one might have to wait for warmer weather when we can all sit outdoors.