Illustration/Uday Mohite

I was feeling a bit reckless, I suppose. I recently went on a holiday in the Lake District in England, with two English women I had never met previously, and one of whom I had recently met only on Facebook. We are all women of a certain age; let's call the others Amy and Lyla. Amy lives in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and invited me to stay over. Next, I invited Amy and her colleague Lyla to join me on a holiday in the Lake District. The first time Amy messaged me on Facebook, she mentioned a common friend, and I discovered she loved to tango, and was instantly charmed.