Can't beat a classic coq au vin or beouf bourgingnon (sic). Both could be made on the Sunday and reheated on the Tuesday - serve with a good crusty bread. Make or buy a choc. sauce and dip grapes and chopped bananas. No effort and can be seriously sexy.
I know nothing about finance but I can't let this go: Dick & Jane were published by Scott Foresman. I think you meant to direct UDT to Peter & Jane. Wouldn't want him to start banging on about Wall Street.
Bollocks indeed. (Though G.Expectations is the best Dickens by far.) Don't read this on public transport or you will come across as a loon: Mystery Man by Colin Bateman. Set in Belfast, a Crime Bookshop owner becomes a private eye by default. He is in the usual heroic mould: borderline autistic, an agoraphobic, hypochondriac virgin. It is very silly but fun to read.
Oh well, if you're up for it, the optimum scenario is this: Take a cab, put cabbie in blinkers and instruct him to drive up and down roads with speed humps. Meanwhile, indulge in furious sex while eating a lobster curry. That should do it.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2012/1/26/1327577144158/Doosra-diagram-002.jpg From the Guardian's OBO. Edited for wine-induced drivel. (last night, you understand, not this morning)
Watched it last night. All I could see was Dean Gaffney - thanks D_C. He had an interesting line in facial twitches. I watched with my 17 yr old - someone could have warned me there were rude bits, I didn't know where to look.
Oh, Thomas! You would never have been awarded your Hostess Badge in the Girl Guides. It's glassware first, followed by cutlery, then cups/plates and finally the saucepans.