Once again a few of us got together to remember our time in the CMF unit 21 Psych. Present were Rod, two Peters, myself and significant others with the two Peters.
There were two minor glitches. The restaurant we were going to was closed! They are now not open at night until Wednesdays. That took me by surprise as I have been there on Sundays in the past.
The odd thing is that one of our previous dinners had suffered a similar fate. On that occasion, however, I had a bit of advance warning so was able to redirect people to the nearby Zambreros. In Brisbane, Zambreros is mostly a takeaway joint but they do have plenty of tables. So we were able to get some of their good Mexican food and take it to a table to eat. So we did exactly the same again tonight.
A wrinkle this time however is that Zambreros no longer has any drinking glasses -- not even for water. As a few of us had brought along wine, that was a bit embarrassing. As Von Clausewitz tells us, however, army men are supposed to be good at improvising and Rod, our former Sergeant Major, rose to the task. He went out into the kitchen and found some small but deep dessert bowls that we could at a pinch use in lieu of wine glasses. So we had refreshment after all.
Church affiliations are common among us so quite a lot of the conversation was about church matters past and present.
So the food was good and so was the evening generally
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