Over a year ago I started going to French conversation class; all the other ‘students’ were pleasant and friendly, but as usual there were some I ‘clicked’ with more than others. There were a couple of ladies who I could imagine having been at school with, and thinking that if we had been at school together we would have been the naughty girls on the back row.
Today we were invited to a Christmas luncheon party which had many of the friends I’d met through French there which was lovely. I got talking to one of the women at my class and although she was older than me she had attended the same school. We compared notes, and when I asked her name, although I didn’t remember her, I actually knew her father very well as he had been a great friend of my father! Her father had also been born in Oldham, where we had lived for for nearly forty years, had moved to Oldham where a good friend lives. There were other coincidences too… we had been to the same social events, we new the same people, and her ex-husband had owned a club where I had often gone with my sister!
How nice it was that a person I already knew and liked, had these connections with me and my family!
Lois Elsden 