And the So this is what I've been doing this week. I've been having a significant birthday

about which I felt sufficiently traumatized that my wife had to organize a

series of events to take my mind off it which she did very successfully so

should I just tell you what they were because you can chime in if you have

experienced these things on the day of my actual first they had lunch at rules.

Marvelous. I've never been to rules before. I never eat the rules.

England's oldest restaurant.

England's oldest restaurant features in the end of the affair by Graham Green, which is one of my

favorite books, one is Green's favorite restaurant in London by Repute and

is sort of a combination of haunches of venison and spotted dick.

Lots of red velvet and kind of...

And Mel, Melvin Bragg arrived halfway through, not on my table. That would have been that would have been quite the thing

that would have been organized by the other anyway so that was have you have John have you ever

eaten the rules I have I have eaten it rules it's a very odd odd reason why I've eaten a couple of times.

One is that the QI office was down the road and the other is that the man who owns it,

John Mayhew, used to own Browns with Jeremy Mulford in Oxford.

And he made so much money.

Browns was fabulously successful in the early 80s and he was bought out and he used his money to buy an estate in

Scotland and then bought rules in London and his estate in Scotland I think

still supplies all the game for for rules in London so I we had a jolly there once which was you know

Oxford kind of bar I was working behind the bar in Browns and we went down and had a slap up feed.

It was a feast, I ate to forget.

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