Good friends are hard to find - but the old ones are the best

In this week’s big interview young actress Tallulah Greive talks about the friendships she formed while filming her new movie Our Ladies. The film is about a group of five teenage girls from a Catholic school in the Highlands and the voyage of discovery they take together.

It’s set to be Tallulah’s breakthrough role but she came away with a lot more than professional achievement – she made friends for life. She tells us on page 6&7:“I was so lucky to be involved with such wonderful women who all looked out for each other.”

It got me thinking about my own group of friends, and the chances that brought us together – moving house, the classes we were allocated at high school, a new job.

I am lucky enough to still count my school friends among the most important people in my life. Over the decades we have between us experienced marriage, divorce, redundancies and serious illness. But wherever we have ended up we have always had each others’ backs. they are my security blanket.

I have another close circle who I met through work.we share a different history, a difference kind of bond, but I can’t imagine my life without all of these women in it.

Thanks to Covid it is looking like many of us will continue to work from home. there are many plus points to this, but I can’t help feeling sorry for the younger folk who will miss out on the chance to form those special friendships that nourish us throughout our adult lives.

Because good friends are worth their weight in gold – but old friends are priceless.