A little concerned and being brave

Last night we attended a party to farewell a group of civilian volunteer sailors about to embark on one leg of a sailing trip to China which is part of a round the world event. I was just a little concerned about what challenges I would encounter since we had never met these people before except for knowing my son and his girlfriend. It was a reasonable sized gathering of about 50 people and when it got too noisy for me to speak I went outside into the garden where there were also lots of people (strangers)! Well that is not totally true.

In the course of the evening we learnt that not only did we know our sons girlfriends brother's girlfriend and mother, whom we had attended the School of Philosphy with 6 years previous but we also knew from many ago the best friend of our sons girlfriend's mother. What a small world!

Now, engaging in conversation with these people was interesting because at no time did anyone comment on my voice. As I was getting a little self conscious I did let one of them know that I was recovering from the side effects of the Botox injection and her comment was that she always thought I was softly spoken anyway. All in all it was such an enjoyable evening making new friends and becoming re-acquainted with old friends.