DP just invited four people to dinner tonight and assumed I'd cook

You should be on the writing team of the next Bridgeton series!

This

Go sit in the garden shed while the guest arrive.
Then arrive at the house after them. That way they will know you weren't home and you haven't cooked so you can then relax and enjoy the evening.

Did DP actually say he expected you to cook?

Honestly the change of plans would throw me, but I'd be grumpy for about five mins then either join in or go out and tell DP he owes me a night to myself. He's cooking, so I don't see the problem.

Also you seem borderline obsessed with his friend's lovely posh French girlfriend, and like you don't like his friend much at all. Wondering what she sees in him?! How rude.

Your bigger issue is that your DP doesn't do any cooking or cleaning normally. Maybe lovely French gf is wondering what you see in HIM.

Is it just me that thinks the dinner sounds great? Maybe I have low standards haha.

if my partner invited guests round when I didn’t expect it it I wouldn’t cook, but I wouldn’t mjnd. And I really wouldn’t care if he cooked something terrible, if anything we’d laugh about it. Why would you be embarrassed??

And if my partner invited people round who i didn’t want to hang out with I’d feign a headache and go to bed and watch a film whilst eating food of choice.

All good options to me really.

"since the day early in our relationship when DP served guests slices of toast with ketchup and cheese on top and insisted it was pizza."

This really made me chortle

Merveilleux!

Apply perfume to your hands. Write a note (that will become lightly perfurmed) to the Lovely Frenchwoman. Slip it into her hand as you embrace her and say goodnight on your way out the front door. Leave a bedroom window open, a ladder in the garden, and a side door unlocked. Instruct her to meet you at the crossroads when the church bell peals eight. Have a coach and four waiting, an extra cloak and a hat. Whisk her away and live happily ever after. Only the trace of her perfume (transferred to her hand from yours) will linger, then vanish, in the domestic air. A hopeless trail . The men will not notice till the beans have run their course.

Surely you had arranged to go out to the cinema with another friend as DP was going to be out, so sadly will not be involved at all.

I don’t get how a night at FF’s suddenly switched to yours when the GF was still around. Is it because they hosted two weeks ago?

Your DP is a wanker for doing this. He’s an even bigger wanker for leaving all the cleaning and cooking to you on other occasions.

Seriously, I’d go out.

Doesn't matter if its rubbish, nobody will judge you, if they do, they won't come back! Just try to enjoy the evening. Or even pick up a takeaway.

If you can't deal with it, fake an invite to dinner at a friend's house. Turns out, you can be impromptu!!!!

I’m definitely not an extrovert. 😂 Yeah, I agree it would probably be mildly annoying if so last minute. I think I was just confused by the thread as from “he assumed that I’d cook” I was expecting something much more controlling. Maybe he put lots of pressure on her to cook before agreeing to do it himself though - I don’t know. 🤷🏻‍♀️ (If he did, then that’s awful and ridiculous). Assuming no awful controlling behaviour, I would definitely try to let it go and enjoy my evening. Life is short and friends and laughter are precious.

Exactly!
@Ilovemyshed I can't imagine having the 'best nights' with people who are uptight enough to need all that running around.

Granted, in this case maybe they are not, it's the OP being made self-conscious by the erm French GF.
And my home is generally clean, if not tidy. There's no need for me to run around putting out clean hand towels, cleaning the bog or whatever.'Freshen up' the cloakroom what on Earth.

When people come to my house unexpectedly - I presume they're here to see me! If it was a gourmet dinner they were wanting then they should have gone to a restaurant instead.

I see no issue with feeding them whatever I've got or freezer best. They're getting free food anyway.

p.s. People keep coming back - even after all of that so I guess I must be doing something right

He's cooking so either go out or stay and just let him get on with it. I wouldn't be thrilled but it's his house too and he is doing the work for the most part.

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Definitely, yes. Best bet would be calling out a vet for an emergency hoof trim.

Perhaps the vet could checkover the Flakey Friend too? I hear those "beans" are pretty miserable too, if left too long.

You're both being a bit unreasonable. It's DP's home too so he can invite whoever he wants over really but expecting you to cook or prepare is unreasonable.
I would have suggested all getting takeaway from somewhere with vegan options personally.
I think you're overreacting about the French girlfriend- if she's that critical of your home and cooking then she's very rude and you shouldn't care what she thinks anyway

Seems it's not just ff with a knob of gold.....

If you do attend make sure you really compliment your husband "oh it's so kind of him to host you, I didn't have the time at short notice so he's done EVERYTHING"

I would be doing nothing but taking myself out for dinner and a movie.

I'm agahst at the logic of FF coming to yours instead, wtf need, it's very rude.

A vegan, a Frenchwoman, a ND man and a tomato-phobe walked into a bar (sorry, house)…

All that’s missing is the guest with something genderish going on.