WhatsApp Audio 2023-03-18 at 08.40.32

The speaker reminisces about happy memories with their friend Phil, including holidays in the VK, skiing, and a weekend in Lausanne. They apologize for a past incident and express regret over a negative experience with Susan Craigie's family. They also mention Phil's wife Molly and how their relationship changed after Molly's wedding. The speaker appreciates Molly as a sister-in-law and enjoys their shared tastes and gift exchanges. Overall, they wish Phil a happy birthday and express gratitude for their friendship. I'll chime in now and I think I've only known Phil for 50 years so I've got practically nothing to say but I've got lots of lots of happy memories all our holidays you know we had lots of holidays in in in the VK and we went skiing and we went to Mallorca and and we had that lovely weekend in in Lausanne that was great um all good good fun and all those lovely parties at Ebenhays including Ollie's wedding which was memorable in lots of different ways Izzy particularly I remember and there was a party the night before Tim's wedding which you were kind enough to host for us there that was great I've remembered that I really need to apologize to you for squawking when you squirted me with an empty syringe under the table at the Wigan's very grand lunch table I know that you suffered for weeks and weeks afterwards not to mention other holidays and every time you saw them and if I'd only kept my mouth shut you wouldn't have had that embarrassment the other thing I feel badly about is the awful time we had when we went to stay with Susan Craigie's family in Yorkshire that was really bad we were having a much much nicer time with Barkie and Pie and Curry Rival and it was such a shame we went off and did that but anyway um these things happened so happy birthday Phil happy birthday Mol I haven't said anything about Molly yet we were thinking about it we decided that we hardly knew you at the time when we got married but I think a lot changed a year later when it was your turn to have a wedding and we both remember your wedding as an absolutely fantastic party the other thing that's been absolutely great about having you as a sister in law Molly is that you can be a really girly friend and it's so nice that we have quite similar tastes and that we've had such fun over the years buying each other the presents that we really wanted for ourselves and knowing that they were going to be fully appreciated