9th October 2020
“Don’t mention the name of that Indian restaurant that we go to, we don’t want Pete and Laura to find out about it”
This was a plea from Mike and Lesley as they picked us up on the way to Pete and Laura’s house for the evening.
Both Kelli and I gave our commitment.
Lesley alway told us that often Pete and Laura would copy things that Mike and Lesley had, only much better and more expensive, and this niggled them a little.
They were keen to keep this restaurant secret otherwise it would become “Pete and Laura’s favourite restaurant”
We smiled, thinking “Why should that come up in conversation?”
About fifteen minutes into the evening as the wine was starting to flow Kelli started into a story about me adding extra letters into words that I believe they should have (guilty as charged) one of which was the name of this particular restaurant, I called it “Pendi” when it should have been ” Pend”. My excuse was that my version sounded more Indian.
I could hear that the story was slowly unraveling and tried to tap her foot, to no avail. I was ready to feign a heart attack, when Kelli, realising she was crashing and burning, expertly managed to change tack steering it away from disaster. The four of us breathed a huge sigh of relief, and got on with the rest of the evening, the secret remained safe.
There was a lot of talk about the new puppy that Mike and Lesley were collecting tomorrow.
Pete and Laura has also decided to have one of the same breed from the same breeder much to Lesley’s annoyance.
I expect a lot of rivalry in the next few months.
We complete two pieces today, one was a dresser, the other a bookcase, both were put on Marketplace awaiting some activity.
I started laying the paving slabs outside the sunroom, phase one of the patio master plan.
Another Lifetime to go 