Elbows on the table

[DanaC]

We didn't eat at table every day. Some evenings we would. More often we would eat off our laps in the tv room (we had two of what I would now call living rooms: the telly room and the sitting room). We probably ate at the table, as a family, twice a week. Partly that's cause Dad was a nightworker.

My favourite kind of meal was me, Mum and Our Kid, all sat watching one of our regular programmes, munching on sandwiches and homemade cheese&onion pie, scones and fruit cocktail. Or, sometimes me and Martin would cook (my contribution being minimal). The first time I used chop sticks was when Our Kid cooked a stir fry. lol, he had a karate style dressing gown, which he wore. Me and mum just wore satiny gowns and we all sat on the floor eating with chopsticks.* I found that very exciting :P

[* No idea why we were sitting on the floor. Probably merging Chinese and Indian lol).