felt I'd got the short straw by facing the restaurant rather than St James’s Park, until I realised that actually I could still enjoy the magnificent greenery of the ancient trees above the duck pond, the pods of the London Eye and Charles’ Union Jack

‘mice’ made from boiled eggs with delicately piped balsamic vinegar eyes and whiskers and a long green, wispy chive tail. Ah, you see, this was not just any old Egg Mayonnaise: this was egg mayonnaise Le Manoir way.As the restaurant got busier, we made