@dlowan,
Trying to figure out who here best matches my current favourite neighbour, Bella's Baba Evda.
Someone who likes dogs saying hello when she's on the porch, tells good stories about her grandchildren, bakes wonderful bread and is really easy to relax around.
osso's got the bread baking part down and has good stories but sometimes she's too quick on the uptake and so would lose in the relaxing category. It's not that Baba Evda isn't a smart woman. She is, but we don't tend to talk about things that matter in the grand scheme of things. We can talk about tomato and cheese sandwiches for literally hours.