A Complete Account of a Saturday I Didn't Leave the House
People will ask on Monday what I did at the weekend. Here is the full record, hour by hour, so that I can say 'quite a lot, actually' and have it be documented.
Genre
Staying In
Declining invitations as a practice.
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Going Out Is Having a Moment. We'll Be Sitting It Out.
The columns say people are going out again. The bars are full, the dinner parties are back, the trend is 'being seen.' We read these pieces with interest, in the chair, and turn the page.
How to Decline an Invitation in One Sentence
Most people decline badly. They apologise three times, invent a cousin, and promise a rain date they will also have to decline. Here is the method we use in this house. It takes one sentence, and the sentence is not an apology.