Gurmeet was a disabled film producer I worked with in Islington. He always had a light blue Morris Traveller http://www.travellertimbers.co.uk/pages/tt006.html car, with its distinctive wooden window frames.
When he died a group of us went, after his funeral, for a drink in his honour at the Kings Head Theatre Pub in Upper St Islington http://www.kingsheadtheatre.org/. Gurmeet had worked there on Saturdays in the office, and it was his local. Everyone knew him there.
We sat around a table in the early evening. I saw a light blue Morris Traveller pull up and linger outside the pub. "Look at that!" I said. Melvin and Dave turned around just in time to see the car pull away. We could not see the driver.
It was hard not to feel that Gurmeet was saying goodbye.
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