Tag: dinnerparty

• If You Could Invite Any Eight People – Living Or Dead – To Dinner, Who Would They Be? And What Is On

  Whenever I’m put on the spot to choose my favorite song, book or movie, I get flustered and find it impossible to narrow my choice down. It’s much easier to select a group of people to dine with – a lot to do, I imagine, with the improved conditions in my comfort zone whenever wine…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  January 5, 2019

  Ageing, Australia, culture, Discrimination, Eating, gratitude, humor, Midlife Observations, Wine, Women

  celebrities, dining, dinner, dinnerguests, dinnerparty, Drinking, foodanddrink, guestlist, social

• A Guest’s Place Is Not In The Kitchen

  Entertaining is all well and good as long as your guests know their place…which is not in the kitchen. I’m not certain if the protocol (in terms of entertaining) has changed in the UK since we left thirteen years ago – a time in our life when our social life was constrained by the needs…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  September 18, 2018

  Australia, Drinking, Eating, Food, Friendship, Home, humor, Midlife Observations

  blogging, dinnerparty, domesticity, entertaining, socializing

• Midlife Mayhem – Am I A Hypochondriac Or Just Getting Old?

  The subject matter of good dinner party chitchat has found a disturbing niche, now that we’ve hit our forties. Although ‘life was supposed to begin’ at this stage of our lives, we seem to be stuck at the ‘recognition of our own mortality’ roadblock far earlier than we anticipated. Whereas in my twenties we used…

  My Midlife Mayhem

  June 11, 2012

  Midlife Observations

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