Well, we've made lots of friends on Salt Spring, but now have friends in Vancouver to stay in touch with as well as our friends in the UK.
And I have discovered a great way to do this. The phone. Of course you're saying - I do this all the time!
But for me, by the time the evening comes round, if I don't have something 'on' then I like to chill and switch off. On the weekends, I'm out and about or I'm busy in the garden. And during the day, I want to be busy doing working on my business. So the problem is WHEN to chat with friends?
Well, by accident, after agreeing a Friday afternoon catch-up call with a friend, we discovered we had both been cleaning our bathrooms while chatting!
And there it is. We have become cleaning companions. Pick a job you don't like to do (that doesn't take much thought or you won't be listening to your friend!) and do the job together while on the phone.
I completely forgot I was doing a job I disliked and had a FABULOUS time chatting and catching up with my friend. And at the end we both had clean bathrooms.
Now there's an idea! What 'job' would you do with your cleaning companion?