“I may not have love, but at least I have a chocolate factory”
-lotta, sunday evening in Casa. Drew and I went out for food about 5:30pm on Sunday, ended up in the King’s Arms in the slow-setting sun. Lotta sat in the spare seat and we got to talking. She’s a pretty successful manager at kraft foods, here for meetings at the chocolate factory, and recently unhappified by her ex, a colleague. The other great quote from her on the life / work balance was “If you’ve got to be unhappy, you might as well be unhappy in a company car”. At about 8pm she announced she was hungry so we broke camp and struck out for Casa, some 10 metres away and up some stairs. Casa had some acoustic musicians playing, including Dave MacNamara who has been mentioned more than once in :here (York’s free-est magazine). Dave really was as good as the pundits claim, and the other artists weren’t so shoddy themselves. Best home-grown entertainment I’ve seen in york I think. Net result: one excellent evening, one mild hangover, and I now have somewhere to crash in Stockholm should I feel the urge to visit!