Tonight we’ve been celebrating! David sold a photo to the United Nations today – it’s one he used in the PotD before Christmas and is going into a brochure for their Farming and Agriculture campaign for water conservation. So, not only did he sell a pic, it will be used for a really good cause too.

So, we decided to kick up our heels, get on our gladrags and go out for the evening. David does look very good when he’s scrubbed up I must say!

When I asked him where he would like to go, he pondered for a bit and then said…. ‘let’s go to The Old Thai House’, a wonderful little restaurant in Camberley – the town about two miles from here.

This place is really special and they really know how to make us feel special too. The first three times we went there we were seated in the restaurant, looking out over the street. We thought it might be a perfect restaurant, really delicious food, a wonderful ambience, attentive but not obtrusive staff and a gorgeous setting in an oak panelled room.

After going there a few times, they got to know us and now we get led upstairs to a room that I can only describe as sumptuous. Painted in a rich, matt red and filled with gold (just like our dining room at home in fact), the room itself is so beautiful it’s breathtaking. We were completely shocked and delighted to find the lights dimmed and two exquisite Thai girls, barefoot and in national costume come on stage and dance. During the course of the evening, they danced five dances, each a little story of love, hardship and the triumph of good over evil. It was enchanting. All of this added on top of wonderful food, attentive but not obtrusive service and all the other things that attracted us there in the first instance.

Tonight we returned to this fantastic place and discovered that they don’t simply perform the same dances each week, the two dancers had a new set of costumes and a new series of dances. These ones were no less stunning.

We had a fab time, it’s been some time since we went out, just the two of us, to a restaurant because I’ve not really been feeling so hot (still not fully over my chest infection). Something I really value about the experience of dining out with just David is that we sit opposite one another, really look at each other and talk. Sometimes in the hurly-burly of everyday life we forget to do those things at home. Sometimes we spend so much time with other people that we don’t have the opportunity to do so. Whatever, it just makes it all the better when we do.