Lack of conversation

We all know that one of the principal reasons for playing cricket is to spend time before, during and after with your pals, but it hadn't occurred to me how important the between over conversations are until we had a weird recent match. Because the pavilion had also been booked for a playschool it was decided to play an away fixture with all the bowling from one end with the kiddies safe behind long stop ( in theory and, as it turned out, in fact).
Very disorienting - you usually don't move very far between overs, if at all and you certainly don't go past anyone to exchange a brief bon mot and it must be particularly tedious for normally loquacious keepers, particularly if there's no slip to chat to. The skipper also can't say 'next over that end' but, on the plus side, I was able to confuse a team-mate at a precious wicket-having-fallen- conversation opportunity - 'I don't think they've got the overs right - if we started that end it must be an odd number'.
At least I didn't bowl at the wrong end as I did the previous year - not wrong, you understand for tactical reasons, but for the safety of a house which suffered broken windows in 2010 !