Easy with
that soup,
garcon!
QUELLE domage! Paris's first nude restaurant is about to close.
O'Naturel opened in December 2017, specialising in three-course dinners of foie gras, lobster, snails, lamb and scallops.
Guests would arrive fully clothed, strip off in a changing room then sit down to a sumptuous meal in the altogether, served by staff in impeccable evening dress.
But now it's all over, according to Huffington Post. The owners have announced on their website that they're closing their doors next month next month.
"We will only remember the good times, meeting beautiful people and customers who were delighted to share exceptional moments," they said.
Is this perhaps a switch-around? Diners in future to be fully clothed, waiters and waitresses in the nude? They don't say.
Nor do they say why they're closing. Was nude dining not quite as popular as anticipated? Spillage of soup in the lap might well be a factor.
STILL with haute cuisine, White House chefs are among the 8 000 federal government workers who are on furlough, not being paid, as a result of the Great Wall of Mexico shut-down.
Is President Donald Trump himself going hungry? It seems not, he's a fast-food man anyway.
In fact when he wanted to entertain the Clemson Tigers with dinner at the White House to celebrate their winning the college football national championship, it was the easiest thing, according to Sky News.
He just ordered 300 hamburgers, a pile of pizzas and French fries. The footballers munched through it all in splendid fashion.
"It's all American. If it's American, I like it," Trump said of the sumptuous feast.
He's said to favour eating cheeseburgers in bed. Maybe he did exactly that later on, a tasty follow-up to hamburgers and pizza.
A ROBIN redbreast has made a rare appearance in Beijing, according to the BBC. Hundreds of bird-watching photographers flocked to the Beijing Zoo Friday after word spread that a European robin had been spotted there – in the wild, not in a cage.
European robins are visitors to the Far East so rare that few twitchers have ever seen them.
The birdwatchers joke that the robin might be a "Brexit refugee".
Real wags, those Chinese birdwatchers.
DURBAN'S musicians are at it again. This time they're raising funds in aid of the Fynnland Drum Majorettes, according to my old muso mate, Smelly Fellows.
They're holding a Let's Go fundraiser at Fynnland Sports Club, Smith Drive, Fynnland,on the Bluff, on Sunday week, January 27.
It kicks off at 12 noon, music and entertainment provided by GP's Choice, Gleit)n Winter, Lee Henning and others.
There'll be raffles, face painting and a jumping castle for kids (when Smelly can be persuaded to stop bouncing on it).
Then – flourish of trumpets – a display by the Fynnland Drum Majorettes.
Entry is free, though donations will be welcome.
Further information: Sharon - 084 511 6516.
Tailpiece
A CLERGYMAN is walking down the street when he sees a small boy trying to ring a doorbell. He's so small he can't quite reach it. The clergyman walks up behind him and gives it a firm, hard ring.
"And now, my little man?" he says kindly.
"Now we run like hell," says the small boy.
Last word
HYPOCRISY is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit, it cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. – William Somerset-Maugham
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