(290) Neil Cannon, our mothers in the same Care Home, 30 Kimbolton Road and watching soccer on TV

On the afternoon of Saturday June 16th 2018 my mind wandered back to an afternoon in late 1991 when I and a schoolmate, Neil Cannon, had played backgammon together in a house owned by parents of a friend of his in Kimbolton Road, Bedford.

Within the hour I received an e mail from Cannon himself. It was only the second e mail he had ever sent me, the previous one being in January 2017 in which he had said he was back in Bedford to visit his aging mum. He now said that he had spoken with my mother the previous evening when watching the Spain Vs Portugal World Cup soccer match on TV in the Charter House home where she was resident. His mother, he informed me, was also a resident there and on the same ward. 

I had not known that.

I e mailed him back re what I had just been thinking about. He responded with their names -

´Chris & Jonny Potter.  We played chess & backgammon that afternoon.´

As I myself had left Charter House Care Home on one occasion, I too had seen their parents sitting in the front room of 30 Kimbolton Road. For Charter House was in the same street and more or less opposite. 

They too had football on their telly.