Now when someone says they are willing to cook a curry for the curry club, it takes around 0.3 of a second for those members listening to say which day! So in May Eugene was duly taken up on the offer and installed in the Church’s kitchen and not allowed out until he had made right on his words.
Word must have spread that a home cooked meal was on offer as no less than 15 men turned up to put pressure on Eugene. Pastor Ian, Bill, Tony, Alan, Brian B, Brian G, Colin, Keith, Jim, Peter, Alan P, Ian Randall, Jim K, Whirlwind (see below) and of course Eugene met for the usual evening of chat and eating.
Eugene cooked 2 different curries, Beef and Chicken, with a Gordon Ramsey style presented dome of rice, without the unnecessary language of course. Traditional Indian bread and drinks completed the menu. Timing was perfection with meals coming out just as the last people had arrived. A show of hands split the number for Chicken and the slightly hotter Beef nicely into 7 and 8. Eugene eventually came in with is own meal to a rapturous round of applause. Everyone agreed the food was first class and to show his appreciation, Bill went and got the cooking pot and wiped it clean with the remaining naan bread. The meal was finished with those little coloured sugar coated seed things and the other objects that look as though they should be in a budgies cage.
Now it’s at this time I must explain the whirlwind. Coming in to have a meal put straight into his hands was Darren, who proceeded to devour the meal, receive a phone call and say goodbye, all in the space of around four and half minutes! Later we were told that the call was to say his skateboarding hero from the last decade was outside his house. Of course he didn’t want to miss the chance to meet his hero and later beat him at Tony Hawks Skateboarding on the Playstation. We’ll let you off Darren, because if Lance Armstrong was to arrive outside my house, I would have left the curry and gone!
There was of course the usual conversations going on with Colin and Tony talking drums, Ian confessed that his recent diet was to ensure he looked good in his swimming trunks on holiday in Israel, and Alan of course reminiscing about all the meals he's eaten.
Total Meal Cost for 15 People was £0. Eugene didn’t want any money and after pushed suggested that if anyone wants to make a contribution then it would go to the fund for refurbishing the vestry into a listening room (I assume to counsel people with curry addiction)…. £125 was donated!!