Dear cherubic offspring of many, many wombs with a view,
Mother's Day approaches and we are here to remind you to book now to make it a special occasion for your Mamma.
If you don't plan, dear readers, things go wrong. I'll confess that one year we forgot to book somewhere to take Mrs K to lunch. We remembered on the Friday evening before the Sunday of lillies and roses that is Mother's Day. So we called up. Restaurant after restaurant - pubs, bistros, chains and posh venues. They sneered, laughed or clucked disapprovingly at us down the line. "Don't you know", said a thousand incredulous booking persons, "that it's Mother's Day?"
(We rather do know, thank you very much - why do you think we're trying to book?)
We did get a table in the end - at the Pizza Express in Whetstone. I swear nowhere else had room at the Inn. It's... biblical stuff.
All I will say is you should have seen the look on Mrs K's face. I like Pizza Express, they do a fine pizza, but they did not help us by having a huge pink sign outside that announced "Because you love your Mum - and because your Mum loves pizza."
Mrs K mentioned at some point during the lunch that she would rather be dead. It's OK, we cheered her up, with a fine chianti (well, a chianti anyway) - but heed this cautionary tale. If you can - book while you're ahead.
See you on Wednesday 23rd March at the launch,
Love, M&T x
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