A slow start to the morning saw us at least getting up in the light and then we saw the sun... at least that's what I presume it was... most unusual for late December...and so warm too...??!
I couldn't hang around too long as it was time for another reunion today, this time over lunch. I took the train up to London, changed onto the Tube to Oxford Circus, and then walked up north to the restaurant in Marlylebone. I am not sure that I have ever been to this part of London before, on foot anyway, but was charmed by some of the streets I passed though: wonderful looking shops, all decorated, including a spectacular corner establishment appearing to sell nothing but ribbons!
One of our number, Gavin, had booked us a table at a restaurant called
Aubaine in Moxyn Street and it was absolutely perfect for the occasion. There were seven of us lunching and we had a most enjoyable lunch.
At one point, we realised that it was pretty much 40 years ago that we first came together, although we will not the have met each other, as it was the week that all prospective Oxford candidates went up for interviews. We all ended up at
University College, where we soon became good friends, indeed most of us lived together in our third year in a splendid old North Oxford house (famous as being the place where the
Piltdown Man hoax was perpetrated - at least that's what they told us when we lived there!).
We have been meeting up like this ever since: sometimes with wives, in former days with children in Kew Gardens and it is wonderful how, even after all this time, we simply slot in and carry on as if we have known each other for years (which we have!) and see each other regularly (which we don't!). These get-togethers are now one of the highlights of the pre-Christmas season and long may they continue!
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