POSITIVELY thronged is the only way to describe the party thrown by publisher Nell Stewart Liberty last Monday night to celebrate four years of Social & Personal under her care. The magazine's latest issue includes a list of Ireland's 50 most positive people, most of whom turned up on the night along with hordes of admirers, thereby ensuring that May Frisby's Pasta Fresca restaurant was overwhelmed with positive thinking.
Ms Frisby is feeling pretty positive herself. Like Nell Stewart Liberty, she's celebrating an anniversary right now; it's 10 years since she established Pasta Fresca, her partner Peter Bark is now spending more time in Ireland, and their son Charles passed his second birth day last December. Meanwhile, planning to acknowledge an anniversary, Christine Ryall of Phillips is already talking of a follow up to the drinks party she'd held last autumn in Dublin's North Great George's Street; being positively organised. Ms Ryall has fixed the date for Wednesday, October 9th.
Other faces in the crowd included the American embassy's Dennis Sandberg who positively insisted that it should have been his wife Roberta rather than he who was listed as charming by the Social & Personal compilers; Angela Cavendish, who positively refused to divulge what could be the meaning behind the name of her new corporate finance company, Alexam; and Paul and Deirdre Kelly, both positively glowing after the success of last Saturday's fashion show at the Point.