Another event to celebrate our walking group's 75th anniversary - tea at the Hilton Green Park in Mayfair. Very impressive spread it was too. When the waiters brought out the 3-tier plates to our table of 12 with 4 tiny scones, a few bijou cakes and weeny sandwiches - you could see a few faces drop with the minuteness of it all. But then we soon realised that as fast as we could eat, the waiters replenished the plates. And very tasty it all was - plus the glass of champagne I ordered to go with mine.
A very nice afternoon catching up with old faces I rarely see any more - and there was quite a smattering of ex-members from past decades including one lady who'd been a member in the 1940s - walking the fields and hills of Britain before I was born, let alone before I joined the club. Excellent.
A few of us then headed round the corner to Shepherd Market for a drink or two, and giggled over the money-off vouchers we'd been given by the hotel which had an interesting typo - where brasserie had become brassiere ... And a meal in L'Autre - the rather bizarre but excellent Polish-Mexican restaurant (it's a long story).
