Christmas Party " LSE group" by Joan

Yesterday, Tuesday December 6th, was the LSE Health and Social Care Christmas Dinner. Unlike previous years, this time the party was in a restuarant in south London, "bankside restaurant". The usuals were there: Ali McGuire , Maria Raikou, Elias Mossialos , Mrigesh Bathia and two visitors (Julio Lopez who came visiting from the Canary Islands see the attached photograph and a guy from an African country that I can't remebers right now, just like Cervantes) . We were a sizeable number of pople in four tables and next table was Julian Le Grand ( back from No 10) with all the female visitors and PhD students.

A dinner like this can be interesting, in fact got to know that for instance Bathia is from a place near Goa called "Damao" ( west coast between Bombay and Surat) and that he even speaks some portugeese. People kept discussing about economics and bitching for a while. Julio did'nt stop asking for " a polish for deseart" every time the polish waiter would pop in and I don't really have much to tell as had to leave early (9.30) to meet some friends that had arrived from Valencia (Ricard Meneu and his wife) and Marta. Apparently, people in the office have just told me that the party lasted up until 4 am and I was not there,....mmmhhh,.... good for them,..at least I can say that last year had enough of this, that I did not had to had aspirin this time, that we are not 18 anymore even if we act like if we would,...all bad excuses,...next year will go partying.