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With Roger Moore we shared a four-course lunch prepared by the Perigord restaurant including a grand Club Health, two-tier cake to mark his 80th birthday. (Yes, Bond fans, it was that long ago.) Tamsin Lonsdale gave us candied walnuts and cheeses infused with truffle oil. Club Health As for Hillary – she supplied hot dogs and beer.

Birthdays have been only one of the excuses for assorted assaults on my dietary health of late. Club Health A fine dinner with finer wines at the French embassy was advertised as a salute to the French designer Jacques Grange,Club Health who had just been nominated to become a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur.

Event organisers in Manhattan compete fiercely for the best locales. The Grange invitation said the French embassy, but in truth it was the Cultural Consulate across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hillary did just fine with the ornate Beacon Theatre, usually a concert venue that similarly hosted Bill's 60th last year. Club Health Roger had his do at lunchtime in the sedate surroundings of the Delegates' Dining Room at the United Nations.

There is usually some hidden agenda to affairs like these. It took a squint at the small print to divine the purpose of the Grange dinner – Club Health a puff for his work redesigning the posh Mark Hotel over on Park Avenue. Hillary was just after the campaign cash,Club Health of course. So what was girl-about-London-town Tamsin up to at the staid, oak-paneled National Arts Club down on Gramercy Park last Tuesday night.