Saturday and the Neighbours

I have a lovely elderly neighbour next door; she is 80 years young and as ‘bright as a button’ and speaks perfect English. Her name in Mrs. I. Ochsenbein, and I first met her shortly after I moved in on the stairwell, no I don’t live on the stairwell!. I said ‘Hi’ to her and she replied back, ‘Hello, so you are English’? I thought, how does she know that, I haven’t said 2 words yet, but she said that Swiss people don’t greet each other with ‘Hi’ so she assumed I was English speaking. I was surprised that she spoke very good English, but many years working in a bank (27) I think she said and many and years of traveling she is a modern woman. So back to the evening there was a combination of different neighbours and it was good to finally meet some I had seen but not really spoken with. In this apartment block there is a mixed selection of different people; some with children, some single, some elderly, several forgien like me, furnishing the 11 apartments. The top floor is the loft apartment, which is fantastic, and I’ve had the pleasure to go up and see this as the couple that live there are now my friends. The girl is a doctor, from German and the guy is formally from London, (they met in Italy, yes a long story), so we can watch the football together! Yes more football, but he supports Chelsea… Nothing too exciting to tell you about this evening, but maybe we will all get together again!