1. Drinking coffee and scribbling in a quiet coffee shop. Although you are in public, it is also very private because no-one will speak to you. And being English, we don't look at each other, either.
2. Old postcards. I love the ones with messages - 'I have worn the yellow nylon blouse nearly every day.' and 'I only know four words of English - "I love you"' and 'It's full of foreigners'. I think my favourite are the two from a little girl thanking her great aunt and uncle for presents - I suppose they were written in two successive years, because her hand writing improves!
3. Delia Smith's cheese and onion soup. It is creamy and sweet and savoury and sustaining.
If you don't look at each other at public places... hmm... does it mean no romantic endevours either? No boy meet girl accidently in a coffee shop?
ReplyDeleteWell... sometimes we do look at each other, I admit, and probably romance happens just as often as anywhere else. But on this occasion, I glanced round and saw a roomful of people sitting resolutely alone, all determined not to make eye-contact. I imagined that they had escaped from their adored but noisy family and busy lives to snatch half an hour of silence.
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