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When did you last meet a new person?

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NotJackieWeaver · 07/02/2021 21:42

In the flesh, I mean. Someone whose name you learnt and you continued to have a connection?

I have a strange feeling mine was a year ago, early Feb. I drove to Wales to meet a new client.

My Pilates studio was open in summer but I don’t think I met anyone new.

That’s a long time!

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PleaseReferToMeAsBritneySpears · 07/02/2021 22:11

I've made a few new friends in my village during lockdown through a Facebook group. It's been invaluable.

CovidPostingName · 07/02/2021 22:12

Multiple years. Probably when I joined a parent support group for my son's condition back in 2019.

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NotJackieWeaver · 07/02/2021 22:16

Has to be face to face :)

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bluebellation · 07/02/2021 22:19

New neighbours that we had a chat with outside today.

ErrolTheDragon · 07/02/2021 22:21

Mine was in June when DD and her BF, who'd been at his parents home since the unis chucked out all the students last spring came to us for a couple of months. So that was a proper getting-to-know.

Oh, and at some point last autumn we were out walking and I briefly met in the flesh someone I'd only known from zoom Pilates up till that point. So I knew her name already, just an unexpected crossing of paths on a hill.

AhFiddledeedee · 07/02/2021 22:22

Honestly?

I cant remember... I dont think the people that deliver my food shop count do they!

alpenguin · 07/02/2021 22:22

2005

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NotJackieWeaver · 07/02/2021 22:25

Alpen - seriously?

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aliceandroo · 07/02/2021 22:31

September when my ds started reception.

ChristmasinJune · 07/02/2021 22:36

I've met quite a few, on holiday in the summer. We all made friends and kept in touch and are hopefully doing the same holiday all together again next year.

At work we've had several new starters and new families to work with.

Not anybody else socially though, I rarely go out unless it's for work.

PleaseReferToMeAsBritneySpears · 07/02/2021 22:43

@NotJackieWeaver

Has to be face to face :)
Sorry - Having first got to know each other through the facebook group, we have met when out and about around the village, walking, playing in the snow etc. (Socially distanced, of course!)
DipSwimSwoosh · 07/02/2021 22:43

September I started a new job.

ErrolTheDragon · 07/02/2021 22:52

Oh, and I've met (across the street conversations) a new neighbour who moved into our road a few months ago. She seems very nice and interesting, similar age to me - someone I want to get to know better.

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 07/02/2021 22:57

@bestbefore
Her complete uni course both subjects was turned online (lectures, study groups, seminars, tutorials etc). She knows lots of people but all online.

CathyandHeathcliff · 07/02/2021 22:59

I met someone online during the first lockdown, talked and then met up in September when we were then allowed to do so.

caringcarer · 07/02/2021 23:01

Actually I met 2 new people in February. I advertised for builder to install new kitchen in btl. 2 applied do I let 1 install kitchen and found some other painting work for the other. Met them both at empty btl to let them in to work. Before that about a year I would say.

Katie517 · 07/02/2021 23:01

I’ve met quite a lot of new people surprisingly given the circumstances, from being on maternity leave. My NCT group of mums and dads have met up quite a lot since our initial meeting in July and now alternating 1:1 walks, met some new people in our village and at the gym. I think not being at work has led me to meet more people than if I had been having a “normal” year at work.

Ragwort · 07/02/2021 23:06

Yesterday .... I have started a new volunteering opportunity and met a very nice volunteer there, we had a good chat and (I think) both enjoyed each other's company.

I am happily married but for everyone who says it's difficult to meet single men ... he was charming and single Wink.

noblegreenk · 07/02/2021 23:15

I met a few new people at a funeral in january. I also met a nice woman when walking my dog in the summer and we exchanged names/numbers as she's a dog sitter.

SirVixofVixHall · 07/02/2021 23:16

About eighteen months ago.

lisalandry · 07/02/2021 23:19

In April I started collecting prescriptions for an elderly neighbour and we've had lovely doorstep chats every couple of months when I drop them off. Then last weekend I met a friend's new baby for a walk in the park, if that counts!

RedToothBrush · 07/02/2021 23:45

Met quite a few bizarrely enough.

I think the one that sticks out is the old lady who lives down the road with her husband who has alzheimers. She always stops to say hi if im out in the garden. She likes to see how its growing. Apparently its kept her going because there's always been something new to look at. Im not a gardener. I started in February last year prior to lockdown as we'd moved and it needed doing. She's lovely and it makes doing something ive grown to love, more enjoyable.

I currently have snowdrops out and there's crocus and daffs on the way. It marks the passage of time well. In a productive way.

89redballoons · 07/02/2021 23:55

I moved house during the first lockdown and have met my neighbours, in the street and at a distance only. There is one particular lady with kids a similar age to mine a few doors up who I think I could be proper friends with - we've said we'll have a playdate for our toddlers when it's allowed. Whenever that might be.

It is a friendly street and the first house I've owned rather than rented, and I'm expecting to live here for a while. It feels so weird not being able to invite people in for a cuppa! In early December we all stood on our driveways and sang carols one evening, which was really nice.

I really miss making new friends, and especially having had my first baby a few months before the first lockdown, I haven't made "mum friends" really like everyone seemed to do before the pandemic. Sad

BackforGood · 08/02/2021 00:01

Not counting through work, then October.
When we went to visit dd (in her first year at University) and met some of her flatmates. (when it was allowed).

jay55 · 08/02/2021 00:06

We've some new staff in the Mail room where I live. But the extent of conversation has been the weather.