Hayward Gallery by George Rex from London, England, CC BY-SA 2.0
This was a super event; both the restaurant and the preceding gallery visit. Click here to see, on The Internet Archive, the book that accompanied the fascinating Eyes Lies & Illusions exhibition.
RSJ’s was an old haunt/stomping ground of mine, dating back to the 1980s. It wasn’t quite a private room, more like a mezzanine section/area, which detracted a little from that “private party, let your hair down” atmosphere we tended to aim for.
Not that it stopped people from enjoying themselves. It was a very popular event that year.
I think the lack of privacy meant that, I’m pretty sure, we skipped the song that year, but we didn’t skip the giving of gimcrack and an early incarnation of Secret Santa. Had the “Linda Quiz” tradition started yet? The answer to that question might need some silicon dating or some other form of computer data forensics.