No-one seems to want to arrange parties after the age of 30, so we are tryng to keep the tradition alive.

20 guests (some on a ciggie break when this was taken) many of whom had not sat down to chat before. It was lively, but 'relatively' sober. We are still working through the surplus supplies.

There were 10 tiny courses which took about 6 hours. My daughters did an excellent job of serving. Many told me they had had a similar experience in their teens, serving at their parent's dinner parties. The overall impression was that it was a fun experience and they got to hear a lot of interesting stuff about adults that they didn't know about ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken