Lunch with the Bond villain is a delightful affair.
And indeed, the baby shower we attended that day was a warm, delightful affair for both sexes, with ethnic dishes, a midwife MC and a mound of beribboned pastel gifts.
The foyer is a delightful art deco affair, painted in red and yellow with many original fittings – not least the (now sadly disused) twin ticket office cubicles, with ornate "Wait Here" railings.
Brunch here is a lavish, unconventional affair, full of delightful surprises.
The upshot of this, combined with the Mehari's turbulence-inducing aerodynamics and a possible exhaust leak, was a cabin filled with fumes whose percentage of carbon monoxide imparted a certain delightful dizziness to the whole affair.
"Probably when another woman would be dreaming of love affairs, I dream of the delightful houses I have lived in," she had written in "The House in Good Taste".
None of these issues on their own were enough to keep me from appreciating Drake's grander ideas and themes, but together they turned a quick, delightful read into a slower and murkier affair.
A Perpetual Love Affair – Jan Morris's Venice (Radio 4, Sunday) was a delightful sliver of radio.
Here we pause while the list of outsider characters played by the resourceful and sympathetic Sacha Dhawan embarks on his list of love affairs with the archetypal accommodating nymphet down the years played by the delightful Michelle Terry.
While the events are always quite delightful, one aspect that continually troubles me is that of guests photographing the affair and instantly uploading them to a social media site.
The story of the young novelist who secretly scoffed at the sugary romances she concocted for the sweet young things who were her heroines and then fell victim to a love affair that was quite as wildly romantic as any of those which she had written, had delightful comedy vale and enough dramatic quality to make it delightful entertainment.
