5 April 2007

During the whole broadening my horizons thing that Lady of Leisure was doing for me, where she was helping me break out of socialising solely with work colleagues, we discovered we actually quite like one couple, Dorothy and Scarecrow. Dorothy has always been part of the first wives club, a founding member no less, and LoL has always considered her one of her closest friends here and over the last few weeks I have been getting on pretty well with the Scarecrow. We decided that we should work a little on that friendship before they too left Jamaica. They are on their way to Oz via another expat gig in Dubai.

To that end we invited them around to dinner (with or without munchkins), and thankfully they chose without. We packed little madam and Wee Lad off to bed early and settled down to prepare. Lady of Leisure, since we have moved to Jamaica, has gradually annexed the kitchen from me. It used to be my realm, particularly for entertaining but tonight I am reduced to throwing together a simple roast pepper and parmesan starter. Main course are provided by LoL with a Chilli Chicken Ramen followed by Melt in the middle Chocolate pots. Such a mixture of flavours, matching wine was going to be a problem. I cleverly decided that rather than the usual matching rules of cut or cover , I would smother and keep copious quantities flowing all night.

Conversation flowed as easily as the wine and before we realised it was after 3am. Thankfully next day was a holiday, though our next batch of visitors were arriving. Being Good Friday we had given the help the day off as well, which meant that we had to deal with the aftermath of the dinner party, clear our own heads and start all over again.