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Jigjag, a good book is (or should) always be welcome - so Tess of the d'Urbervilles for tomorrow?

For my PTA meeting, with remarks to go 'through the chair', I would have dearly liked to pipe up - 'Isn't it the table's turn? The chair's been hogging things all night'.

"Through the chair" isn't new, though. I remember it from Staff Room meetings in the mid 70s.

Oh ChrisE that's brilliant! I love it. I have checked the weather, sunny, maximum 54 degrees, so I think it is on. I am sure Tesco will "deliver".

Well played Chris :)

I know 'the chair' stuff is old, ChrisE - that's why I said 'when I first heard it years ago' and also 'it's much more acceptable now'. We've got much more recent - and irritating - management speak, buzz words to bother us now.

Malone

Great idea. Mrs J loves reading, so it will be a romantic meal on the patio, thanks to ChrisE's idea, with a good book and a scrap-pad as I try to come up with a clue for the title. I suspect "Tesco's lacking company.........."or similar will feature.

At the Cricket Club AGM last week, the new Chairman, asked that she be addressed as Madam Chairman, rather than "the Chair", as "I am as good as any man". She was too.

Jigjag, hope the romantic meal goes down well - literally (well, it was time the word was used properly).

I'm afraid I dislike the word ''Madam' as much as I dislike 'the Chair' - and Madam Chairman seems … senseless somehow! I can't come up with an alternative, but I'll work on it.