Friends

Returned to Stroud for the first time in ages and caught up with Steve, of blip cleansteve fame.

Had a most enjoyable time putting the world to rights at our favourite hostelry - the Crown and Sceptre.

Among our group was Ann(e?), a lifelong Everton fan, who was delighted to discover that landlord Rodda was another Evertonian who has a collection of signed caricatures of Goodlison legends like Gordon West and Brian Labone around his bar.

Apparently Rodda is a member of the Chile Everton supporters' club. It's a long story!

The picture was taken on my walk home, looking across the Golden Valley to Butterrow as night fell.