Me and My Friend Janet

Ever since we met at the bus stop, we’ve managed to get together about once a week to go for a walk.

One of those weeks, we met at her house and I got a tour of her cute cottage.  The following week, we met at my house and she got the tour of this place.  Each of those weeks (except for our first walk), we’ve stopped at one of our local pubs for a drink (or three!) afterwards.  It’s been really fun getting to know her, and it is really nice to go into the pub for a drink WITH someone (can’t imagine doing it on my own!).

She is a student at Coventry University and is a few years younger than me.  She also works part-time at one of the offices at the University and has just taken on ‘casual’ work at the Co-op in the village.  This has been an advantage to both of us as she gets to know people in the village from ringing up their purchases at the Co-op – many of them happen to hang out in one of the pubs as well.

There are three pubs in this village, although one of them was closed down and another was for sale when I moved here.  The closed one is now open and the for sale one has now closed down, but not before we had a chance to have a drink there.  So now we feel like veterans – we’ve been in all three village pubs.  We’ve had fish and chips from the local shop.  One of the pubs has a Chinese takeaway in it, so we’ve picked up the menu for future use.

The pub we happen to like best is The Rose and Crown.  Not quite sure why, it’s not a fancy place (it’s the one with the Chinese takeaway), but we both feel comfortable there.  There is live music every Friday night, which happens to be the night we go there, and sometimes the music is good and sometimes not so good (based on three visits!).  This past Friday night, I saw a man wearing a shirt that said ‘Milwaukee’ on it, so I actually talked to him and asked him about it.  He bought the shirt in Peterborough (of all places) because he thought it would ‘look good’ when he went on holiday in Ibiza!  lol.  He knew Milwaukee was a city in the US, but that’s about all he knew about it…so that led to a nice little chat.

In any event, Janet and I will continue to go on our walks and out for a drink afterwards.  We’re also planning, one of these weekends, to take a longer walk, but so far, either one or the other of us have had plans at the weekend, or the weather has not been cooperative.  Still, it’s nice to have a friend right down the street from me.

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