On the doorstep
Oct. 21st, 2020 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustOur across-the-toad neighbour phoned to ask if we would like some apples: of course durham_rambler said 'yes please'. So she delivered a bagful to our doorstep, and rang the bell - and we got there fast enough to say 'thank you, and how are you?' and so on. We had been chatting for maybe ten minutes when another neighbour came past and accused us of mingling - which I denyy. We were socialising, but we weren't mingling, and we carried on doing that, the four of us, and very pleasant it was.
And useful, too, exchanging information, and thoughts about the latest planning application, and the residents' association, things that were too half-formed to provoe an e-mail or even a phone call, but which come to mind because - well, because that's what conversation is, and I miss it!
Also, I have a bag of apples.
durham_rambler said 'yes please'. So she delivered a bagful to our doorstep, and rang the bell - and we got there fast enough to say 'thank you, and how are you?' and so on. We had been chatting for maybe ten minutes when another neighbour came past and accused us of mingling - which I denyy. We were socialising, but we weren't mingling, and we carried on doing that, the four of us, and very pleasant it was.And useful, too, exchanging information, and thoughts about the latest planning application, and the residents' association, things that were too half-formed to provoe an e-mail or even a phone call, but which come to mind because - well, because that's what conversation is, and I miss it!
Also, I have a bag of apples.
