@Andrea9 @Annette33 @Lizzie
Can I tell you something has absolutely nothing to do with hosting!
Come to think of it, many would say I have probably been doing that here for a year or more now!
When my mother and father met there was a bit age difference, she was 17 and he was 33.
These photos were taken in 1939, about the time they married!
They went out for two years before they decided to ‘tie the knot’. Not long before the wedding he said to her….”Is there anything about me you don’t like”?
She said,…”Well I don’t like you smoking” ! In those days every dashing young male at least smoked cigarettes stored in one of those immaculate silver flip top boxes that had been given to him by his parents as a twenty first birthday present! The more flamboyant men smoked a cigar and the ones who really thought there was nothing they could do that would ever smell unpleasant, smoked a pipe!
Anyway Dad gave away the cigarettes, and after a couple of years went away to war and never smoked again throughout his life. While he was away at war, what with the stress of running a household with a new baby Mum took up smoking and for the rest of her life was rarely seen without a cigarette.
To his credit though I never once heard him ever criticising her for taking up the habit she made him give away.