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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. Well two friends of mine,

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Speaker 1: Margaret and Stephen Hogan who I met Margare when I

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Speaker 1: was at university and she met Stephen and we all

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Speaker 1: met Stephen when he came to university to visit some friends.

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Speaker 1: He and Margaret fell in love at first sight. All

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Speaker 1: these years later, still married. I'm godmother to their daughter.

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Speaker 1: We've known their family for so long. Margaret and Stephen

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Speaker 1: had a joint art exhibition. It's brilliant if you want

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Speaker 1: to go and see it. It's at the Maunselwick's Gallery

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Speaker 1: in Glenmore Road in Paddington. Margaret's an extraordinary painter and

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Speaker 1: Steve is a sculptor who's the stuff he's found on

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Speaker 1: the farm. They live in Bathurst. These steel sculptures made

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Speaker 1: with bits and pieces that he's found of old farm equipments.

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Speaker 1: Just spectacular. But what I loved was that my sons

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Speaker 1: turned up too, because they know Margaret and Stephen and

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Speaker 1: their kids. And I looked around the room. I thought,

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Speaker 1: these are people I've known since I was seventeen eighteen

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Speaker 1: years old, and here we all are in our early sixties,

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Speaker 1: and what an extraordinary journey. And I loved that my

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Speaker 1: kids saw that at university. At the moment, these are

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Speaker 1: the long lasting relationships that you forge and at the

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Speaker 1: time you have no idea what role they will play

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Speaker 1: in your life. And I love that I could say to,

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Speaker 1: you know, Margaret's kids, I was there when your parents met.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's very rare chunks of your life that

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Speaker 1: happened this way. And for my kids to see that

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Speaker 1: they're in the drop zone of their Uni years where

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Speaker 1: this can go and these links that you will forge

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Speaker 1: for the rest of your life, it was just it

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Speaker 1: was fantastic. You try to get the Claric Club back together.

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Speaker 1: The Claric Club, I was. It was years years later

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Speaker 1: when I was going out with Harley that I could

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Speaker 1: actually tolerate red wine because at the Clart Club we

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Speaker 1: would drink pretty och as went there to meet boys.

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Speaker 1: You pretty much drink vinegar and watch people throw up.

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Speaker 1: And that was it. And you know, it was the

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Speaker 1: best club I've ever been in, the Claric Club. Eighteen

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Speaker 1: year olds in the Claric Club there was cube cheese

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Speaker 1: and red vinegar, oh delicious, and a good mob