I have been seeing more than usual of Anne this week, to my considerable satisfaction. We had a Tuesday lunch together and today we had a small dinner party together. And Anne and I will be dining together tomorrow.
Anne's best friend is J.. and she has a husband G.. and J.. hosted the dinner party. I get on well with G.. so I was invited along to make up the numbers of the foursome. In a very traditional way, the men mainly talked in the dining area while the women talked in the kitchen
Our hostess
Our host
J. did an excellent pie with vegetables for the dinner and in a very Scottish way Anne dished up my version of the dinner. She knows what I take. So I got a big slice of the yummy pie and only a token amount of vegetables. I noticed that J had only a small slice of pie and a plate replete with vegetables so I am glad I didn't get her dinner.
G. and I chatted about political matters in our usual way. G was at the time thinking about how Australia's constitution could be improved and so we also discussed constitutional arrangements in the USA and Britain. No wonder the ladies retreated to the kitchen!
G. is firmly anti American, as is common in Australia, so he was rather surprised and pleased when I told him that America is more democratic than Australia and Britain because it has congressional (parliamentary) elections every two years. So a bungling government can be kicked out more quickly there.
We had our tea all together in the parlour after the dinner so everyone was amused when I briefly nodded off during one of G's harangues. It will be a remembered event, I think.
After the dinner, we went back to Anne's place for a lie down where we had some very pleasant chats in our usual way
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