The circle of life

My daughter is living in Sydney with her husband, baby son and small stepson. They have just moved to a new development and my daughter was feeling a bit lonely. Being an older mother, she is 45, she decided that she needed a 'mummy friend' who would mirror her - she couldn't really face chumming up with a girl in her twenties. She went to a roaming playgroup, the large van turns up at a location and installs all the playthings just for the day and then moves on. After a short time she noticed a potential candidate - a mature woman with a baby and small boy and she walked over to speak to her. As she did, the woman gathered her children up and made to leave. My daughter and the woman smiled as they passed but didn't talk. My daughter was a little upset that she had missed her chance. Ten minutes later the woman and her children returned to the playgroup and approached my daughter. They got chatting and found they had a lot in common - quite apart from their age and children. The woman's husband had been Best Man in the UK to two of my daughter's closest friends several years previously and those friends were the ones who had introduced her to her husband. A few days later my daughter held a birthday party for her son and invited her new found friend with her husband and children. When my daughter's husband was talking to the 'mummy friend's' husband they realised that they also had a friend in common. The woman with whom my daughter's husband had travelled around Australia many years ago, was also a friend of the other man. How many coincidences is that? They were, it seems, destined to meet and become friends.