Colette said . . .

While I read the books as a very young man and therefore took in very little nevertheless I came across a quote the other evening. "If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles" which seems a wonderful philosophy for life to me; mind you I would slightly modify it and apply it to things other than truffles, wine for instance. I really feel a glass is insufficient for proper enjoyment, indeed at times so is a bottle.

Yesterday (Sunday), partially as a reward because I had started walking at lunchtime, we went back to Kang Yin's sister's great Mongolian steamboat restaurant. They only sell beer so we took a bottle of a cheapish sparkling wine which went down very well. I did have to get a large beer though since the soup that I chose was quite hot, Alice, above dropping veggies into her side of the soup chose the herbal, very nice and not quite such an inducement to drink as the one I picked.

We were supposed to be going to look at a photographer's afterwards, since we would like a decent picture taken on our imminent 15th anniversary. We had lovely ones taken on our 10th and intend to do the same on the 20th, but we will just go for a single one for the half decade.

However, as you can see, the fact that we over indulged in the food (yes, we finally have a proper link to the quote) made the idea of swanning off on a probably fruitless search, since many wedding etc photographers seem to be closed on a Sunday, just plain laughable.