We’re hosting 16 for Christmas Day. Everything organised and DD1 is coming Christmas Eve to help. Today DH decided to get the tables ready. We’ve borrowed chairs and 2 small banqueting tables in addition to the one we already have. Sounds simple? Not in our house. In a trial run, DH puts up 2 banqueting tables on patio, adds an old wooden table from the shed and proposes screwing a bit of plywood on top of old table to seat us all! Over the last week there have been lots of bits of paper with tables drawn on them. A steel measuring tape has been much in evidence. When I suggest putting the 3 banqueting tables together I am told it won’t work as it will be too big. The last time we did this was Christmas 2015. I found the photos, I was still wrong. I showed him the photo of the Christmas tablecloth which fitted the 3 tables perfectly. Irrefutable proof you might think. Took a while but eventually and grudgingly, the 3 tables are together in our kitchen, ready to be laid. Our normal kitchen table will be out on the patio for the duration of Christmas Day under a tarpaulin, not ideal but ok. I don’t think he’s too happy with me at the moment. If only he’d asked me how we did it last time!