Janie and I were trying to trawl the details of this evening from our memories.
I remember travelling to the house by tube, getting a little lost walking from the tube to the house and then travelling home by cab.
We both remember having a really good time.
We both remember that the girls were there and that they were now old enough to join us and participate in much of the evening.
Did we take a stroll around the neighbourhood that time or was that a different evening?
Janie remembers taking drinks in the garden.
Janie remembers dancing with the girls in the living room.
Janie remembers roasted vegetables with thyme and Balsamic vinegar.
Janie remembers conversation about Sartre, existentialism and that sort of thing.
We both wonder whether all of Janie’s memories of this particular evening relate to this particular evening or whether several evenings have merged into one collection of memories.
I am 99% sure this was our last visit to John and Mandy in London – i.e. it was Saffron Walden the next time we visited. But frankly I’m not much help on this one memory-wise.
“JOHN! MANDY! You’re better at this than we are. What did we eat? Are Janie’s memories impressively good or a mixture of different evenings?”
Whatever – we know we had a great time.