Six Degrees of Separation!

In 1982 I was working in on a project in Fiji. I made friends with Tony and his wife Angela and their three children Simon, Hamish and Sarah. My eldest daughter, Catherine was living in my home in Auckland NZ. My other children Clare, Helen, Stephan and Marion were living with their mother in Ireland. I decided to get Stephan (at the time 14yrs) and Marion (8yrs) to Fiji for a holiday. They met up with Tony's three children on this holiday. Later in 1983, I returned to my home in Auckland. Tony and his family returned to their home in Christchurch NZ. I kept in touch with Tony in subsequent years. Sometime, about 1995, My second daughter, Clare, was on a backpackers holiday from Ireland in the South Island NZ. I suggested she should call and meet Tony and his family in Christchurch NZ, although she had never met them. Unfortunately she had already visited Christchurch and was on her way to Dunedin. Later, I had a phone call from her to say she was in a backpackers hostel in Dunedin and had met a young fellow called Hamish. They got chatting and soon realised that Hamish was Tony's son! I rang Tony In Christchurch and jokingly said "how come your son, Hamish, is chatting up my daughter, Clare?" Tony said, oh, that is where he is. We wondered where he had disappeared to, he seemed to have gone walk about. So Clare met Hamish who had played with her brother Stephan and her sister Marion so many years before. Stan B