And all these years I thought it was the nostalgia and the drinks that fogged my vision.

Yes well, that happens later too, and sometimes it isn't just your vision that gets fogged.

I wonder if they will put that silly pot plant in front of the stairwell again this year? I think it was a vain attempt last year to discourage us from having impromptu singing sessions up there where the acoustics are good. Yeah, I know there are singing sessions upstairs in the Restaurant - I even ran some of them in previous years - but they lack a bit in atmosphere. The stairwell sessions are a tradition, and it will take more than one little steenkin' potplant to stop us. I did notice the diddlies had beaten us to it one night tho :-(