Evening Soiree Enthusiast Gifts

Ladies

Sloaney Pony.

"You do like octopus?"

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

"Joel! Killer crust!"

Chicken Little was correct about something falling, unfortunately, it was an axe, and not the sky.

'She thinks it makes her look enigmatic.'

'Is this a party, a cheese and wine do, a cocktail party, a soiree or just another of your old cronies get-togethers?'

"A naked dress is perfect when you have nothing to wear."

The Vicar 's Invitation to Dinner.

Bedtime story.

How to make an unforgettable dinner for four

'Maybe getting gordon ramsay to do the after dinner speech wasn't such a good idea after all!'

'Tea minus one hour thirty minutes and ten seconds.'

'I'm sorry, he likes to let off wind after dinner.'

"I just love candle-lit dinners."

'I'm calling this a plate and I already have service for six. Six more and I can invent the dinner party.'

'This 'homework,' was it done today?'

'Sorry there's no food. We were kind of hoping you'd bring some.'

"We'd invite you to our place in the country but we're having it torched."

"I much prefer the evening milking to the morning one: The farmer is not a "morning person", now is he?"

'You talk about her so much. Why don't you invite that Alma Mater of yours to dinner sometime?'

"High-energy music, motivational coaching, an epic space - depressing stuff but add in some fixed bikes and you're on a winner."

'My daddy thinks you're really funny. He's always telling mommy about the clown he works for!'

Girl who had a bowl of trifle spilt over her dress at her court presentation party the night before

"I'm the writer-in-residence."

"It's only insomnia if there's nothing good on."

"They're boulettes de viande. They're meatballs. They're balls of meat."

That night, Neil Thomas declared himself the poet laureate of 1973 Sheffield Lane.

"There's something you haven't told me."

"I love these quiet evenings at home battling alcoholism."