Browsing the Bookshelves

A return visit to the Laughing Gravy - a super restaurant in Waterloo - last night to wish a merry Christmas to friends Liam and Brett who will be spending Christmas itself in Texas this year. I'm not sure if I'm envious or not: the prospect of a quite Christmas at home is tempting, but then so is the idea of getting away for a while, if even only for a few days. Anyway, the evening was delightful. A number of Liam and Brett's other friends were there, only a couple of whom we'd met before but the company was perfect and the food very good.  The Laughing Gravy no longer has blackberry and apple crumble on the menu which is a shame as that particular combination really is the food of the gods.

Took the opportunity to release a few books (details of which can be found here), but I'm not sure I did the job very well: in my haste to drop them off, I forgot to put any of those wonderfully eye-catching neon labels on the outside, so it's not immediately obvious that the books are bookcrossing books.

In the end, Rod and I left as others were enjoying their coffee. I am finding it increasingly difficult to keep going late into the evening. I think it's a result of the low-level but constant pain caused by whateveritis that is wrong with my face.  Roll on the operation...