I haven’t been to BBB (Beach Blanket Babylon) for over a couple of years now even though its in my neighbourhood! I was glad that Su Yin chose it for her birthday drinks for exactly this reason – so I could stumble home afterwards …

Su Yin has been in London just probably about 18 months or so (not very long at all) but somehow she has amassed a giant number of friends. I met her at the tube at the start of the evening and when we got to BBB we were probably the first to arrive however it wasn’t very long that friend after friend after friend arrived to greet her. Though there was almost a revolving door of people coming to see her with people coming in and going out I don’t think I’d be wrong in saying that between maybe around 8 and 11 she probably had upwards of 30 people around at any one time.

Drinks-wise we had a waitress who looked kind of like Heather Locklear, she was very pretty, but she was very very good at taking orders. Now bearing in mind that there were a lot of, shall we say, people from far east asia here tonight she did well being able to find the owner of whatever drink people had ordered. She even remembered my order from the start of the night to the end of the night (yes I behaved and limited myself to two drinks).

Su Yin very generously put her card as a bar tab. I shudder to think just how large the bill would have been tonight! I saw her tucking money into her top (heh heh) but I doubt what people gave her would have covered it! At any rate it was clear that Su Yin had a wonderful time tonight – Happy Birthday Su Yin!