Dads old girlfriend!

While on a family holiday in Australia with our 3 children in 1993, we booked ourselves on to a boat trip for the day. As we boarded the boat, we heard English voices up ahead ( the only other English people on the boat!). It was a big boat and our paths didn't cross with the 3 couples (all friends) until after lunch. A dingy took people to the island for a swim, 12 at a time, and yes, you've guessed it, we were in the boat with them. It turned out that 2 of the couples were visiting the 3rd, who had emigrated years before, and were all old friends. On enquiring, as to where they came from, all the couples were from the same area as myself, Rainham in Essex. It turned out we knew some of the same people and had lived in the same road etc. One of their sisters had been to school with my mum, but not only that, the expat wife had actually been my dads girlfriend about 45 years before.!!!!