“I can’t see why we can’t add you in on the Saturday as well, on your real birthday. It’s not every year that you’re sixty is it?” Ayr agreed.
“Well, mine is a birthday, like Lek’s and the queen’s, er, Mothers’ Day, so we could group all of them together and all of the businesses together too. It just seems tidier to my way of thinking.” Ross nodded ever so slightly, as if to say that he could see what Craig was talking about, but he wasn’t going to stick his neck out on this one.
“OK, point noted, we’ll have a chat about that when you’re not here, although when is that? We are giving you a party, so we’ll give it when we like, OK? I know what you want, you just want to slip out of it, don’t you?
“So, for now, we have the hotel, the boathouse, Nong’s, and the salon. We need to ask if th
