BLOGG # CHIVALRY IS NOT DEAD

The week before Christmas, having nothing to do, I decided to go to Vancouver to visit my good friend and companion in Burnaby.  I have reached the delightful age where I no longer am obliged to: bake artery clogging festive goodies,decorate seven foot trees,wrap in  Martha Steward influenced manner, useless gifts or stuff  over sized birds.  Instead I was free to take long walks in Burnaby Central park among snow laden forests or wander through the metrotown mall looking in awe at the decorations and admiring the fashionably dressed shoppers. We both spend Christmas day with our own children and darling grandchildren and not with each other-knowing full well that the darling grandchildren are darling only in our own eyes.  However because it was so Christmassy, we decided to have a pre-pre-Christmas dinner just for ourselves and decided to go to a restaurant with a lovely view of the inlet and mountains. It was indeed a lovely view, cold brisk with new fallen snow on the mountains. We chose to sit in the covered patio beside a roaring fireplace and ordered a festive meal. We had coconut covered prawns-as all good writers do, I like to describe good meals in detail, knowing my readers like to live vicariously through the written word, crab dip, and for the main course tuna cooked very rare.and I advise you to order it cooked very rare too when you order it as my companion pointed out. We did not order dessert as it puts on pounds. Indeed it has been known to put on pounds even to the readers. Of course we also had  a bottle of lovely white wine. This blogg however is not about gourmand food, but about chivalry and I must explain: while my companion was seating me at our table, he put me into the chair facing the window saying " Sit here so you can look at the view while you are eating" This was very nice and I suggested he sit next to me so he could look at the view too but he,good man and rightly so, promptly sat opposite me saying" I would rather look at you." I was pleased. I was charmed and I bloomed and became even more vibrant and entertaining than I usually am. So listen to me. Don't despair, don't give up hope, never give in and remember -Chivalry is not dead