I had twenty people (I had invited thirty-one)
to my little flat in Kennington, for food and drinks, for a Saturday chatting
and intermittent shouting at BBC coverage of the Olympic games.
The dish I cooked in my new purchase was ratatouille. It was the first time I had had invited more
than a dozen people.
Apart from the aforementioned "rats",
I also fed the hordes with homemade bread sticks, tarragon chicken parcels, Greeksalad, tapenade, bean dip and stuffed aubergines.
I had borrowed another telly, so there was one
in the living room and another perched in the bedroom and last person left a little
after midnight.
As well as the Olympic games being held in Barcelona
that Summer other major news over the previous weeks included:
- Iraq had refused a UN inspection team;
- Denmark had (narrowly) rejected the Maastricht Treaty; and
- Two skeletons had been discovered in Yekaterinburg, they were later identified as being Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra
On lighter news…
- The first nicotine patch was released publically
- And the Space Shuttle Endeavour successfully
made its maiden voyage.
This was also the year that the Queen paid
taxes for the first time and also the year when Windsor Castle caught fire.
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