Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Chinese, stew and glorious matrimony.

1. Crispy seaweed and sesame prawn toasts.

2. Cooking a vast pan of spicy lamb tagine for my brother and PaulV.

3. PaulV's stories about disasterous weddings - this one involved poor wine, the bride going to punch her mother-in-law, the groom suggesting an anullment and revolving-restaurant-induced vertigo.
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Shower, sparrow and night before bin day.

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