In the last couple of months, I often started my sentences with When I come back... in conversations with my friends in Sydney. I was about to go to Poland for few months and I was not looking forward to the trip. I wanted to have something positive to look forward to when I come back. As I am a project manager by nature, I soon realised that there was an opportunity here to form a When I come back programme –with a set of projects under such umbrella. I moved back to Sydney not that long time ago, and I want to do many improvements related to my Sydney home. I want to improve my kitchen, bathroom, garden, get a great bookcase to be able finally unpack my books, coach seriously, get fit, do a creative writing course, read a number of books, meet regularly with friends and many more. One of the ideas which was coming to me regularly in the last couple of years was Thursday dinners. What I would love to make happen is to have regular get together with my friends sitting and talking around the table. Friends, good food, wine and stimulating conversation always been my idea of bliss.
It came to me from events organised by the last Polish king Stanislaus. I realise the difference between me and the king, my home and The Water Palace, royal menu and mine or the number of guests but what we could have in common is regularity of the meetings and maybe the name.
This is what Wikipedia says on the subject of the Royal Thursday Dinners
The Thursday Dinners (Polish: obiady czwartkowe) were meetings of artists, intellectuals, and statesmen held by the last King of Poland, Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski in the era of Enlightenment in Poland.
When I come back I will tell you about my dinners.The dinners were held first in the Royal Castle in Warsaw and later in the Water Palace between 1770 and 1784. During the dinners, which typically lasted three hours and resembled French salons, the King dined with his guests and discussed literature, art and politics.The number of guests fluctuated over the years, but there were about thirty regulars.
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