Lunch Club at Bellota's

Our monthly lunch club meetings are calendar days. Time to meet up with old friends, enjoy good food and wine, share anecdotes, discuss books, music, politics, travel and any other subject that takes our fancy. My brother Dave is a legend in musical knowledge, runs a great blog on Live Journal (DavesMusicTank) and is placed currently at No.12 in their list of blogs. No mean feat!

So, here we are again at Bellota's Bar y Tapas in Brighton, our favourite eatery, on a day when the weather was clement and added to the wonderful, convivial atmosphere. Phil had travelled over from Sittingbourne in Kent to join me, my brother and my good friends Graeme, Georgina and Lesley.

Someone referred to this group as 'a bunch of old gits'! That may be so. But we know how to enjoy ourselves. No malingerers here! Mind you, Phil as the youngest member of our esteemed club, would prefer not to be entitled with such a sobriquet!

The food here, as ever, was very tasty. The service was a bit slow today, because Mark - the manager - was having to cope single-handed, owing to being short of staff. He did well and we were in no hurry anyway. Time to dwell over good food, good company and great conversation. And speaking of 'old gits' - here are two at the bar enjoying a Torrés 10 brandy....

Salad days.....