A last supper

This evening Jenny put on a dinner mainly aimed at giving Joe and me a last chance to talk to Paul and Susan before they depart for Scotland.  It was held in the BBQ area of her back yard but was not a BBQ.  Jenny and Susan had cooked up a delicious dinner in the kitchen.  It was a Mexican curry of their own devising with guacamole and rice.  It also included some of the leftover ham from Christmas day.

We always buy a large first class ham for Christmas. I have been shouting it as my contribution to the dinner for around 30 years now.  It is always the best ham of the year and we always have plenty of leftovers so it features in everybody's dinners for some days afterward.

We talked about many things but Ken's activities with the waterfall punchbowl on Christmas day were noted. We also noted the possibility that Timmy's wife Rachel is related to Nanna.  There is the unusual surname Cairns in both ancestries and a similar place of origin in Britain in both ancestries

Joe was an exemplar of good manners in not starting to eat his dinner until Susan had sat down.  The rest of us were more slack about that.  I think it is modern manners for someone to start if the hostess is taking a long time to sit down.  As soon as one person starts, others follow suit.

The kids were all present and Bambam had to be roared at a couple  of times, as was to be expected.