Nice Women

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I wonder whether shiny leggings will be looked back upon as a fashion no no
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I take the number 8 bus home. Yesterday, the bus was unusually packed and I had to squeeze into a corner seat on the ground floor - the kind where you have two people facing you. A pair of women with a suitcase and a copy of the Metro between them sat across from me. I pulled out my current reading choice and was about to start a chapter when one of them spoke in french to the other. Something about her was familiar. I looked up and realised that she was one of sushidog's oldest friends, introduced to Wink and I some time ago during one of Sushidog's visits to London. She's the one half of a lesbian couple who have known Sushidog and her parents for ages, now living in Hackney - really funny, warm people.

The non-Londoner must have been a french friend just arrived in town. They chatted about what to cook for dinner and called someone to confer about courgettes and Tesco. (I imagine it was the other half.) They got off at Liverpool St station. I should have said hello, shouldn't I?

This morning, a prospective candidate from the French Guiana came into our agency for an interview. We got chatting in french and it turns out her mother is brasilian (from Fortaleza). She was lovely. It was the first time I spoke to a native french speaker where I didn't feel a sense of inadequacy. I hope they find her a good job.