Sitting at the table

Our dishwasher is a cupboard too - but the one where we store the dirty stuff until it's full enough to run, usually every other day! We hand wash the posh wine glasses and that's about it. It's a brave person who opens the machine the day after we've had fish ... 

Were table eaters for dinner, it used to be outside on the terrace pretty much most of the spring, summer and autumn but like much of the country we're now plagued by tiger mosquitos (They're very diificult to eradicate, the female laying her eggs on a solid surface above where she anticipates water may collect, and the eggs can survive months unhatched, even right through a freezing winter. Our neighbour has a large puddle filled flat roof.) making outdoors day and night a pretty bitey place I get bitten up to a dozen times a day when gardening! So now it's indoors at the table, usually about 7pm so we can listen to the 6.30 comedy on R4 during the week.

The only exceptions are to watch the rugby when we eat on our knee. As I'm the rugby fan and the cook I can dictate the rules