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Dear Friends,

It was heart-warming to read of all the kind people – from Orkney to Australia – who toasted my Jupiter anniversary. I myself celebrated by riding my MP3 down the coast towards Spain and, in true Jupiter fashion, got lost and found myself negotiating a goat track in that very rugged country we call garigue. I made up for that though with a wonderful meal at a restaurant that was new to me in a nearby village called Nefiés. The place is called Very’table and you should go there.

I have pictures from all over, but here are just a few. The first is from the Blue Lion in Gray’s Inn Road, where my journey began. You can see the old Sunday Times building through the window behind them.

It was Michael Hetherington, on the left, who pulled them all together.

The second picture is from Germany where they did the thing in true Teutonic style.

I know them all, but I can’t remember names, so I’d better not try.

Then my academic friend, Robert O’Toole summoned a group to the Coventry museum, and sent me this:

And finally, transplanted from Meriden to Hinckley, from the Triumph factory canteen and organised by Faye Howe, comes a still life entitled, The Coffee Drinkers.

My gratitude and condolences to all the solitary celebrants who hoisted a glass with only my book to accompany them.

Anyway, it was truly wonderful to be remembered by so many people in so many places. Now we can all get on with the more important business of saving the planet.

Hasta Luego. Auf Wiedersehen. Arrivederci, Au Revoir, See Ya’

Cheers,

Ted