Perhaps that title doesn’t seem so exciting, but when your social circle has reduced to a social line (it was a triangle, but then diminished some more, but I believe the spare point has just returned to the country) then lunch with a (the) friend becomes a very big deal. Especially when it involves lovely lovely intense conversation about things which are important to both of you – the state of the internet, creative projects, juggling work and a real life, that sort of stuff.