Chutney

No. 1 joined us for a drink and a curry, something we haven't done with her for ages. We tried a different pub to usual which turned out to be nicer than anticipated as we bumped into two different sets of friends.

One Himself and I knew from a long time ago at work; he got made redundant and has had a number of local jobs since. He was out with his, now very grown up, son.

The second is couple where he is a black cab driver, and still really struggling with London just not being as busy as it was and she works in our local hospital. We had a bit of a 'did it all [Covid] really happen' conversation before realising we probably sounded quite old to No. 1. She was laughing at us.

We went for a curry after. It was yum.