“Happily my dining companion didn't ask too many questions about the timing of the booking, or the unusually suave dinner suggestion for a Sunday night”
“Too many fatty, salty, over the top experiences had left me feeling a bit like Henry VIII, but without any of the interesting stories about his former wives.”
“At most, I was expecting a couple of slices of reasonable pizza, a sweaty stroll around my old neighbourhood and a quick return home for a standard post-lunch Saturday nap”