Recently it was time once again for Castle Reunion drinks at the Counting House in Corn Hill followed by dinner. As with last year my Suffolk chum from Durham University days rounded up ten alumni, as the term is, to assemble and swap stories about their careers, offspring and in some cases grandchildren. The difference this year was twofold – we were requested to find the dinner venue and, owing to my error in asking, to come up with this year’s “Big Question” to the assembled company designed to elicit deep, meaningful and philosophical conversation. The latter, I can reveal, was “What are you personally optimistic and/or pessimistic about?” while the former was La Sauterelle at an unassuming little place known as the Royal Exchange. Continue reading
All Is Transient 