Back to the Table

This week is Back to the Table week which encourages families to eat together at the table instead of grabbing ready meals and heading off to their rooms or slumping in fron of the TV.

I think this is a great idea. I was brought up on meals where we all ate together at the table and we all ate the same thing. Nowadays, thanks to microwaves and to ready meals that are becoming as edible as they are ubiquitous, many people eat different meals, often at different times and all too often in different rooms.

Of course, moving back to the table and holding conversations without the opiate of TV is not easily re-learned when you have spent years watching while you munch. We eat at the table but all too often Eastenders (our only soap opera vice, unless you count The Archers) is on and our conversation ebbs and flows with the comings and goings of Alfie Moon and Dot Cotton.

So we are going to try to increase the number of times we forego the TV in favour of background music and conversation.... just as soon as we have had Sky+ installed next week.