So apparently I'm having 18 people for a lunch party on Monday.

[Womblealongwithme]

DH and I were supposed to be at a party 3 weeks ago and unfortunately, I came down with a sickness bug so DH went on his own.

He has just reminded me about the bank holiday party we're having on Monday and asked what I needed him to do for it. Except I wasn't at the party and knew nothing about said party. DH is the loveliest, kindest man on the planet and was diagnosed with ADHD about 10 years ago, which means that sometimes, he has conversations with me in his head, that don't quite make it to me! (Like inviting all and sundry to said bank holiday party!) So, dear readers, I need ideas from you lot quickly. We don't have a barbecue so I have my fridge and an oven and not a lot of kitchen space.

Add to that, that most of tomorrow will be taken up with various sporting activities for DS and DD so I don't have a whole lot of time, pretty much Monday morning only! Oh and it needs to cater for vegetarian and coeliac guests. Help!

Disclaimer - DH will absolutely be involved in prep and feel awful that he has sprung this on me!

Hopefully the posters who were all adamant that they knew the party had not taken place, the DH/OP hasn't sent a WA message, the OP definitely wouldn't be returning to their thread and so on don't try and predict the lottery numbers any time soon🤣.

You've got the wrong end of the stick. The party took place. OP sent a WhatsApp message to a group of friends, and they attended.

When DH originally reminded OP he had invited people to a party, OP realised he had imagined he had told her before but had not. What OP did not realise until later (and PPs twigged much earlier) is that DH had also imagined he invited the guests in the first place. He may have talked to them about the idea of a party but not confirmed anything. In that sense, at first there was indeed no party.

OP does not wish to admit to this, so is avoiding the question. I assume this is one reason for not returning to the thread.

Nah she’s not returned because some posters are overly invested in her life and she cba. Hth.

No doubt that is among the reasons. But OP has studiously avoided answering several questions about DH imagining the whole thing. As time went on with no confirmations, this looked increasingly likely.

I hope she’s ignoring the interrogation to wind people up. Reading these messages and laughing.

Posts like this are what I was referring to, Mystic Meg!

The datestamp tells us my post was true at the time. They weren't coming, until the OP sent a WhatsApp message with a 'new' invitation. This was reported the day after my post. Yours, Mystic.

Not necessarily. At the time of your post the OP possibly had checked, did know that they were coming and planned to come back. She just hadn't announced it on here.

Well we can't exactly read OP's mind. My post was correct given the information at the time of writing. Thirty hours after I posted that, OP said "most people responded to my WhatsApp message yesterday". No indication that anyone had confirmed beforehand (they hadn't).

Must be nice to be omnipresent and know everything about everything.

It's just inferring from the information available, nothing god-like or anything. And when OP says a lot of stuff but consistently avoids answering one pivotal question, that itself is pretty informative.