Encore

This week has been just wonderful.
The past three days have been exceptional:
A) the weather has been warm and kind
B) the customers have been warm and kind and funny
C) nothing has broken.

Yesterday a couple ordered their lunch and were asked the usual question: where will you be sitting when we bring your order - in the main room, the conservatory or outside?
The gentleman answered immediately.
His wife looked astonished: "He's never that decisive!" she said.
"It won't happen again for another year" he quipped.

The same couple returned today. His opening line?
"I know what I'm having for lunch, but no idea where we're sitting or what sort of coffee to have."

It was a day of returning customers. Last year we hosted a family meal for four generations at two long garden tables in gorgeous sunshine in July. The organiser was celebrating her 80th birthday though we are certain she has a portrait in an attic somewhere.
Today she and her husband came for lunch and to book a repeat performance. This time to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary. We checked the date, adjusted the menu a little and ordered the sunshine for July.