...structure the washing up, I love that..:laugh:...yeah the 6 people dinner party thing does need a lot of structuring though..and the trick is to get everyone on board with the structuring...(..without even realising it, or realising it but enjoying it..)...making the structure stuff a part of the evening by gliding them into the kitchen between courses and all doing that washing up together so that you’re not left with THAT kitchen...it’s like an army tactical manoeuvre, Girth...and seeing all of those happy troops chatting in the kitchen while they help do your washing up for you...


..anyways, the whole thing is to enjoy your 6 friends and to enjoy the evening...because the washing up will still be there in the morning but those friends wasn’t be...(..well I hope they won’t be still there..:laugh:...the deal was never to include an overnight accommodation...although yeah, that can happen as well and it’s just to go with that as well if it does..)...at least if the kitchen is a mess in the morning, you’ll have the dinner guests there to help you...so win/win I guess..:laugh:...

How Nice

..rather than say how nice, Arista...get into that messy kitchen and help Kaz, honey...

I "wash and clean as I go" so the kitchen often ends up cleaner by the time I've finished cooking a meal than it was before I started :joker:.

I used to be terrible, to be fair, but I worked in a single-manned chain bar kitchen while I was at University and you have to get used to cleaning while you cook or everything grinds to a hault, so it just became habit then :shrug:

Ive just ate out two poached eggs on toast.:smug:

That's what you get when you only pay £50 for the hour Parmy.

Dinner Party? What kind of circles do you think I move in? Aint having no dinner parties round my house Ammi. :joker:

I was talking about the relatives and their friends who come round and want feeding

We structure the washing up so that the host doesn't have so much to do when they all leave.:hehe:

I only needed 4 and a bit minutes of that hour..:fist:

Refunds not permitted.:bawling:

but poached eggs are nice :hee:

I know, that nice i can devour them in just over 4mins:wavey:


Edit, my first lie on the forum...it was 2 and a half minutes.:blush:

yep same, i'm having hard boiled eggs tonight :love: and maybe a refreshing cold salad to go with it, which is divine in hot summer weather tbh

Oh and some cold salad cream....no squirting everywhere though, someone will need to clean it up.

yeah we just have bought a new dining table :love:

Get with it Ammi.
Dinner party, afternoon tea, late supper for friends.
All bought in ready to serve....saves on most of the washing up, and all those pots, pans and other stuff.:hehe:

I remember being asked into a come dine with me 4 week event by 3 mates.....i told them to **** off and moved south.

That could so easily be me. I am terribly untidy.... but I try really hard not to be.

Oh I couldn't relax with a mess like that around me.

I just cleaned out the cutlery drawer thing as I could not bear it

I could quite easily shut the door on it and go and do something more interesting. I do really try hard not to though...