Despite having attending hundreds of conferences and training courses, I have no photos of delegates with name tags helping themselves to enormous plate-fulls that will put them to sleep in afternoon sessions.
The only photo that I could find on the flash drive I've carried with me to the States was from a festive meal sometime in the 1980s, I don't know the actual date.
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| Christmas Party, South Wales |
Annie Scotney, my mother, is the lady on the left of the front row. Its the last photo that I have of her before she died well into her eighties.
Looking at the bottles of sauce on the table I can only wonder what they had to eat.
It has been an interesting experience to be in the USA at Halloween and to see pumpkins outside properties.
It was a bit of a shock therefore to also see the first scattering of snow at Halloween.
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| Halloween snow 'fall' |
However that set us up for a festive meal, inside, in the warm.
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| Halloween spread |
Food for four that would have fed twelve from a local Middle East restaurant and not a name tag in sight.
To see how other Sepians have fared just follow the links at Sepia-Saturday-252.
