Curiously small pizza gathering yesterday; instead of the usual 8-12 people we had nobody except me, Owen and Ian.

There had been an incident the previous week with a threatened boycott of the place (owing to the manager pulling up outside and parking antisocially while talking on a mobile phone), so we wondered briefly if a genuine boycott had been arranged and the three of us had somehow failed to hear about it. Apparently not, though; it seems it really was just a large coincidence that everyone else happened to have something else to do on the same day. How odd. That tends to happen on Bank Holidays, but I've never seen it happen purely by chance before.