Last night we went out with a group of my new work mates for an
alternative St. Patrick’s Day dinner. It was organised by Jane, from Dublin, who
was naffed off by the lack of organisational skills shown by her fellow
countrymen*. So Cath and I, along with about twenty others, when to a very nice
Italian restaurant, called Cucina's, about ten minutes walk from our apartment. As the restaurant is located within the very grand Hyatt Hotel we
were able to have alcohol with our meal and it really helped the banter to
flow. It was a very well organised event, with spot prizes and a bright green pistachio
cheese cake for dessert. And I suspect a far more civilised event than the one
hundred pounds a ticket ‘real’ St. Paddy’s show. No doubt both events will be compared and contrasted in work on Sunday.
*The Doha Irish Club had sold six hundred tickets for a five
hundred seat venue and when they had to suddenly drop one hundred punters it
left a lot of unhappy people in the lurch (it was a ‘black tie’ event and some
of the disappointed had already invested in a tuxedo and/or evening dresses).
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