Had a very pleasant evening last night with 12 other people celebrating my forthcoming birthday tomorrow in a nice little restaurant about five miles away from here.  The chicken madras I had was pleasantly on the hot side, and there was plenty to go round (in fact I think I was one of the few people to actually finish my curry!).  Highlight of the evening was the person who shall remain nameless – but you know who you are! – who phoned me up to ask where we all were.  I told him he was in the wrong restaurant, five miles the other way, to the amusement of everyone else on the table :)