When I mentioned today that I wished I had not wasted so much time in my youth and that I was too old now to achieve what I had wanted to do when I was young, Conrad looked at me in amazement and said in an earnest and caring voice: ” Don’t say that your life is over and that you are too old. People can llive into their 90s, so your live is only half over and there is still so much you can do. There is so much life ahead of you.”

Advice which is like an early Christmas present. My custom made ‘carpe diem’. Heartfelt, simple words of wisdom which came so unexpectedly and yet so appropriately.