June 22, 2019

successful failure...

 The evening was wonderful and I'm betting there wasn't a soul there who didn't have a great time. Stan was brill as ever.
But how can a restaurant - who knew how many people would be there since they'd all booked tables - fail so conspicuously?
Understaffed with an indifferent menu. Tiny portions of dull stuff, arriving late. Sudden and early lack of house wine meaning expensive bottles have to be bought.
I like to think the staff did their best - they did, for sure - but where was the chef? Gone, it seems (the curse of St Gobains strikes again) plus no effective planning for a full house.
Our friends made their feelings plain. Roland actually took plates into the kitchen to give them a hand. Its a shame because everyone there wished the place well...it'll be hard to get them back there though.

DO NOT BOTHER WITH PLAYING THE VIDEO it wasn't the one I wanted to post and I can't find out how to remove it. And now I'm too wrecked to find the real one, of Stan playing .. 

 Still a pleasure to be en masse and listen to Stan :) (Though not in this video, really, don't bother)




Here are Clare, Toby, Pete...


 Philip and Leo...
and tables of mates. LOTS of people there.



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