I live in a block of purpose built retirement flats.
We have our own community gardens to keep us pensioners happy as well as a community room where we hold regular functions.
Not being the social animal my aim was to settle for a quiet uneventful life, believing all things sexual were long gone. Except for the looking of course and I could always imagine how it was when I was young.
But who was I kidding!
You see; there are lots of lonely spinsters and widows here. One day, there was I, minding my own business and pricking out the spring seedlings in the greenhouse - when along comes Faith. Now every time we see each other I think of Faith Donahue, there's giving away my age!
Now I know a young man's fancy turns to love in the spring but who would have thought a woman like Faith would have sparked off an older guy's fancy!?
We got talking how one does, me just being sociable and friendly with my neighbour, not thinking for one moment there would be anything more regarding her motive in talking to me. But I was soon to discover - (and to my great delight I may add, because it brought out something I thought I 'd lost forever ) -that Faith had other things in mind.
Well she was lonely wasn't she? Yeah! That's all it was. And looking back, I just cannot understand how I could have been that naive not to have recognised her intentions before I did.
I mean there she was, telling me she had to come out of her flat Me thinking; "Right, there is nothing wrong in that!" for an hour or two to take in a breath of fresh air.
But whereas primarily - I was just entering into polite conversation regarding all matters pertaining to gardening - and a few other meaningless subjects too, well meaningless to me anyway, I wasn't interested what her married son was doing in Australia was I!
I didn't pick up her body language at all, not even when, in the greenhouse, she bent provocatively over the edge of the staging to reach one of my prize cactus plants.
I was a little concerned because the mature plant had lots of sharp thorns so I told her to take care. Then I saw her wiggle that enticing hind of hers like she was doing it to music, and realised she was wasn't doing that for nothing. I had no music on or anything that perhaps would entice her to do that.
But Boy! Did it arouse me!