Everyone was there, including TPR, JM, DT, KJ, NP and SF. JLW arrived a little later with a present for me: some fun photos of the pair of us that she had purchased from a Blipfoto booth.

At first it seemed that we would just spend the evening sitting around and chatting. This suited me because I was only wearing a very thin silk nightie and was worried that it would become immodest if I moved about the room. Then someone reached over for a box on a shelf behind him.

“Here is the brain” he announced. “Please find a partner”.

I soon realised that “the brain” in question was not a body part, but a board game. I was desperately disappointed that JM was sitting at the other side of the room – too far away for me to pair up with him. I would just have to take my chances with the stranger sitting next to me.