How great you could manage something like that for a change-up to the more remote forms of communication so prevalent now. Emails and texts shared amongst my kin and friends after the snowstorm in the Northeast here were peppered with remarks hoping for renewal of in-person meetings "in the spring..."
Well, it is the pre-Christmas "relaxation" period, although I anticipate yet another lockdown, (our third) either immediately before or immediately after, Christmas.
As a matter of fact, this was my first social coffee outside my own house in around ten months.
My mother's old friend - 79 and counting, but lucid and very funny - had arranged to meet me earlier in the week, but had cancelled as she didn't feel well.
On the day of my mother's funeral, two years ago, she had said that she wished to keep the friendship she had enjoyed with my mother alive and expressed the wish that we would keep in touch, and - to my delighted surprise (for she has an exceptionally happy marriage, adored children and grandchildren, ran a very successful business for years, and nowadays, has many, many health problems which she faces cheerfully) - she has been as good as her word, and, since then, we have met roughly twice a year until this year.
She and my mother were invariably in stitches of laughter on their outings, they always had such fun together.
