Maggi has invited us to the Sunday buffet at the Flamingo, and arranged to collect us after she has been to "Sunday meeting" - about 12:30. Single slice of toast for breakfast as this seems very early for the main meal of the day, but need not have worried about our ability to engage in indecent amount of consumption when confronted with buffet which exceeds the laudatory descriptions people have given of it. The food we skip looks as good as that we choose, but it's obvious we can't hold everything - soup (delicious), salad, four kinds of meat at the carvery, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes and seven different kinds of vegetable, all in large round silver coloured tureens with lids keeping them piping hot. So we're selective but not delicate eaters. And there's a choice of desserts, which we should be unable to hold but aren't, all of us opting for apple crumble with lavish amounts of warm custard. We keep expecting hordes of people to join us, but the largish dining room remains nearly empty. Does this go on for hours and are we extremely early? If not, what on earth happens to all the leftovers? Have visions of their being incorporated one way and another into meals for the hotel's half board guests for the remainder of the week, although surely with some diminishment of quality. Brussel sprouts reincarnated with a Polish butter and toasted crumb sauce or incorporated in bubble and squeak?
Then to M's for a Cyprus brandy. Fruit cake and chocolate on offer but totally impossible. Could in theory fast for the next three days, but know it won't happen!