TURKISH DELIGHT

 We went to dinner at Richard and Shelley's last night. Chris and Sue were also there.

All was good although Chris made a wine faux pas by bringing a bottle of Marlborough chardonnay. Yes, you read that correctly - a chardonnay from Marlborough! What was he thinking? Richard kind of made up for this with a hand-labelled bottle of chilled red named a Cool Skin. 

It looked, er, impressive but no-one was brave enough to actually open it.

Richard and Shelley provided a dinner with a Turkish theme including Turkish music.

Why?

Well,  can only think that, as Richard is a Liam Neeson fan he had this film in mind:

This film was set in Istanbul which was once named Constantinople - but that's another story.

We enjoyed a convivial meal marred only by some excessive bouzouki playing in the background.

Conversations moved between American politics, Murray Robert's and the origin of 'Steve Is A Brikehead', aggressive violin playing and the location of a long-ago cocktail party hosted by Sue and Chris. You had to be there. Robert and his religious beliefs were only mentioned a few times but quickly deleted like his blog posts and comments.