Afterwards, we drank and chatted and laughed into the small hours before making our way to the BBC's studio on Broadway.
I chatted to a few, who told me that this was still their home and that they prayed for peace, which they hoped for but never expected to see.
Dale, who had never been in trouble with the police, was gunned down as he chatted with friends in the street and was found collapsed in an alleyway off Farnborough Road in Miles Platting.
We went to a bar, shared one Bacardi and Coke and got chatted up by some lads from Preston.
I chatted with the waiter about his new baby and afterwards, quite of his own volition, he picked up my daughter and took her off to make friends with the other waiters.
"My son Ben and husband Brian just walked the dog and read their books, while me and Amy sat on the bed and chatted and did some yoga.
The Anglo-American owners, Tom & Kelli, fired up the barbecue for us as we chatted with them into the wee hours, swapping Latin American adventure stories.
She had a few drinks and according to fellow passengers chatted a bit loudly to the family next to her and played "hairdressers with a young girl".
