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Melissa Norman's avatar

I love that interaction with Amal! I can just imagine it as a scene in a film. I can really imagine how competitive it gets for restaurants who are quite simular in a town/city.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Thank you. He actually told us more stories but some of them were a bit errr, controversial.

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Melissa Norman's avatar

I can imagine! (Writer brain comes up with lots of interesting and controversial ideas about what happened.)

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Felicity Jones's avatar

Perhaps you could have had a cardboard cut out of JR and moved him around.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Jim and Jean would ask the cut out for an autograph.

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Felicity Jones's avatar

Coriander wars! You were well out of that.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

If truth be known, he actually told us a lot more, but it was too vicious to print.

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Felicity Jones's avatar

Hate to be picky but this is 55. We have lived every one of those weeks.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Oh yea. We’ll have to get the big laptop out.

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Mark Diacono's avatar

Marvellous VB, but not as marvellous as a raised mushroom and lovage pie sounds

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Thank you Mark. Oh yea, they were buck snorter.

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Matthew Clapham's avatar

"Sit in the same seat as Jay" - priceless. I wonder if he knows about his fans. Do they stalk him, even? I bet his mum never warned him about that, despite being a professional agony aunt.

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Caroline Osella's avatar

Blimey, is he Claire Rayner's son? Interesting convos at their dinner table.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

Actually, yes, that’s his mother.

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Vanilla Black's avatar

I reckon he secretly likes it.

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