School together?

I was in the pub with a friend I used to work with (Jon). One of Jon's York university friends (Luke) had come along and brought an old school friend of his (Andrew). Jon and Luke were reminiscing about university days, leaving Andrew and I on the margins. I jokingly said that we should pretend that we'd been at school together and made up a geography teacher to talk about. Andrew got into the gag and after a while I asked Andrew where he and Luke had actually gone to school. He said that it was a small village in the Midlands. Given that I'm from a small village in the Midlands this got me interested. On questioning it turned out that the village where Andrew and Luke had gone to school was two miles from my own small village and we had lots of friends in common. Even better, it turned out that Andrew actually grew up in my village and we had known each other as small children and played together. In fact we had gone to the same montesorri nursery school, so after making it up, it turned out that we really had been to school together!