For a baby less than a year old we were very touched to hear he had invited us, his other godparents and his family for a pre-naming ceremony meal at Ask. He even contributed to the cost of the meal! 20 of us arrived at this lovely little Italian restaurant for an early-ish dinner. Thank you baby Ashley! (and parents James and Sasha!)
Food was nice- I had gone for one of the new pizza's on the menu which claimed to be hot but in reality had very little fire to it. To be fair it does take a lot for me to notice heat. Mr M had the Calzone and RV had what looked like a really good seafood stew.
I wasn't at all jealous of the fact that I am still supposed to be being good with my food at the moment and therefore didn't have any dessert. Instead I sat there and watched while Steve ploughed his way though this mountain of profiteroles. The green bowl is a fairly close approximation of the colour my face went as I had to hear about how good they were.
After food Sasha's sister and brother-in-law surprised everyone by cracking open a fair number of bottles of sparking wine. We all grabbed a glass and toasted the fairly bemused baby Ashley and his parents in anticipation of the next day.
Just take a minute and look at these three. Do they look like they are up to something to you?
This was them mid-scheming plan. After the meal they started rounding up all the men folk for a night on the town. Originally there were no girls allowed but this quickly fell apart as they put their stilettoed feet firmly down. Those of us with babies or commitments said our goodbyes and headed home (I had a pile of Pasteis de Nata still to bake!).
From the stories I heard the next day it was a fairly riotous affair (I'm looking at you grandmothers - I heard about your antics crawling on the floor under the tables and throwing your email address in paper airplane form at young men!) Some of the men were decidedly in the dog house the next day and there were a number of sore heads as we arrived at the village hall in the morning. Here is the lesson - when the boys get this look on their face it's probably best to say no!
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