Old friends

I come from Southampton and now live in Nottingham, where I worked in a library before going into publishing. My son was in a pub in Bristol with friends. There was one seat next to him when a group of females came in. He got talking to the one who sat next to him. They are still going out together a few years later. She turned out the daughter of a friend I went to school with, hitch-hiked round France with when we were 16, went to the same university with, later shared a flat with in London for several years and had't been in contact with for c30 years. Just a few weeks after my son's first meeting, a old acquaintance rang me up out of the blue. I had helped him with information searching when he was doing his PhD in engineering in Nottingham in the 80s and I was a librarian. He had eventually moved into publishing, which was why he was contacting after all these years. It turned out that he lived a few houses away in the same road as my other new-found friend in Bristol...