Mary Reid

Every year the new Mayor hosts a farewell dinner for the retiring Mayor. But the latter gets to choose the venue, so I suggested the Patcharee Thai Restaurant near Kingston Station.

I'd been invited there back in February to 'bless' their first anniversary (check it out for pictures of the food). We had been entertained by some excellent Thai dancers on that occasion, so I was very pleased to watch them dance again last night.

So here is the top table. From left, David Jacobs (High Steward) , me, Cllr Shiraz Mirza (Mayor), Naheeda Mirza (Mayoress), Col Geoffrey Godbold (Representative Deputy Lieutenant), Cllr Sheila Griffin (retiring Deputy Mayor), David Griffin (retiring Deputy Mayor's consort), Cllr Bart Ricketts (Deputy Mayor). Ian did his usual trick of getting out of the phot by taking it.

Incidently all four councillors inthe picture have blogs so should all be reporting the event as well as me!