Meetings

Yesterday turned out to be a highly social day.

As you know, I was intending to go to get some salmon in the afternoon. While doing so, we bumped into Heidi, an old friend form Pub days. We haven’t seen her for a couple of years. She apparently has moved up to Heysham these days. It’s strange we bumped into her sister-in-law at the golf club on Saturday, again for the first time in years.

After a long chat with her, we got off to the library, then our local village pub. Here we met up with Lynn & Rob. They were full of enthusiasm for their recent holiday to an island not far from Tunisia. It didn’t strike us as a place for us – all sun & sitting around a pool, with plenty of alcohol as it was an all inclusive holiday – but it seems to have done the job of re-charging them. They, too, are looking into the possibility of another holiday in September.

We had barely finished talking to them, when we in walked Howie, another regular we’ve not seen as much as usual. Admittedly we did bump into him at Snatchem’s last week with his wife – we’d never met her before & had begun to think she was one of those mythical creatures who didn’t really exist. We usually see Howie on his own, getting a quick drink to unwind from the stresses of work before venturing home for the evening. It was good to see him in smarter, more casual, attire looking so relaxed with his wife.

It’s not often we bump into as many different groups of people in a day. I wonder who we will find at the supermarket today. But then Morecambe is such a friendly place you soon get a large acquaintanceship that rapidly become a circle of friends.