New friends

Earlier this year, N & I had an interesting night out. We met up with people from an internet message board we both post on. There were quite a number of people there - a respectable turnout - and amongst those were a couple of people we really hoped to meet.

There are 2 people that N plays online football with that he really hoped he'd get on with in real life as much as he does online, and he wasn't disappointed. As an added bonus, one of the guys brought his other half, and the four of us got on like a house on fire.

After a drunken night out (daughterless of course!), we arranged to meet up again and Saturday night was the night. A and his girlfriend C came to us for dinner so we didn't have to worry about babysitters etc and it was one of those evenings where the conversation just flows and everything is easy. We nattered away, played board games, argued over the rules etc - it was fab.

What's even weirder is that we have discovered that C and I were at school together - she was in my sister's year! Bizarre! We're both trying to dig out the old school photos so that we can compare notes...

N & I are normally so shy it's hard to make new friends but this relationship seems to have just fallen into place at the moment. I hope it's one we can build on - but we're going to need a lot more board games! :-D