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If this happened to you!

I invited two people to lunch on Tuesday. On Monday at 1pm,I opened the door in my scruffy apron, hair awry, no lippy...and there they were, laden with flowers and presents....eeeeeekkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!

YOU SCRUFFY
NO LIPPY
NEVER CANT BELIEVE IT

Believe it or not, Dizzi, I had been scrubbing my kitchen floor! lol

Was it you or your guests who made the mistake? I well remember inviting friends for lunch and they didn't turn up. Two days later they arrived, smiling and totally unaware they had made a mistake about the day:-))

S x

Sue, thank goodness it was their mistake. While they were taking their coats off I scrambled on to my laptop to check the date! lol The next problem, was how to cook my lamb shanks in half an hour instead of four hours!!

Honestly at the end of the day..........if this had been two of my TRUE friends, we would have sat down to beans on toast and just made the most of it!!!

Hope you all had a good laugh:-) The best meals are those that are put together from bits and pieces with good friends and lots of wine.

S x

Quite right PH, but one of my guests was 98 so beans on toast wouldnt have been appropriate:-) Yes Sue, when they recovered from the shock, we all had a good laugh and lots to drink. lol BC XX

Shona. you can always resort to boilly egg and soldiers whatever the age!!!

Well, Prickly, I have a certain standard to maintain y'know....boilly egg and soldiers for lunch? I don't think so:-)) BCXX

Ah, that is where i beg to differ.........my true friends would not be interested in my maintaining standard's...they would be more interested in our friendship, boilly egg and soldier's or not! lol but true.

How nice:-)))

I hope i didnt come across as faceitious! My house is an open house, come one come all.Take me as you find me and you are most welcome to whatever is on offer. Be it boilly egg and soldier's, a 3 course meal or just somwhere to rest your head for night or two. xxx

BC do tell! What did you give them for lunch? Or did you all just drink your way through your supply of Baileys until the lamb shanks were cooked?

Well Ann, I shoved onions and garlic and a bottle of red wine and stock into a saucepan....then I microwaved the shanks, one by one, and plopped them back in the sauce and glugged a can of butter beans in...all the while filling up the dragonlady's glass and fanning her....lol...I also had some prawns and did a starter. You know how conventional old ladies can be...but she was delighted, bless her. Didn't like the thoughts that she had been forgetful...BC XX.

Have to admit, if ANYONE is coming round, they phone me when they're leaving their house - even if it's just to pick me up - in case one of us has got the wrong date/time.
Also means I can remove the vast amount of cat fur tumbleweed blowing across the living room before they arrive (SiL is allergic to cats!) and one cat in particular likes to 'style' her long fur 'a la poodle' if she is scared by anything.
But, well done Shona!!!

if it was me i would of told hubby to get in kitchen quick and rustle omething up lol

Ah but Dawnie, you are lucky to have a resident chef lol

Our BC is her own resident chef!

Well done for quick thinking BC, now if I ever turn up on your doorstep I will know what to hope for lol

All good wishes for more entertaining visitors in 2011 as entertained you must have been too lol

Lizx

Ah! good job its wasnt me that turned up,I'd have called you a sloppy old bat and gorrrn to Maccy D's,

then spread the word.}}}}}x