Every renter ever feels this acutely.

Pulled or minced beef, pulled pork or diced chicken is the sort of thing I was thinking.

Absolutely you can! I love a good roast as much as the next person, but practicality is the order of the day.

If you have a good slow cooker or Weber-type apparatus then you’re good as gold to whip up outrageous quantities of food for that sort of setup.

‘Build your own’ type food is a good trick - avoids the stresses and pressure of plating up and presentation.

So things like tacos, sliders or baked potatoes and then giving your guests a big array of choices of filling.

Not very stereotypically Christmas-y maybe, but fun and easy. And delicious.

Oh I do too, I guess it’s just in a different way. The consequences of climate change are pretty clear - and horrifying. But something about what this could entail, while horrific, is still almost limitless in its potential for awfulness.

That’s a big swathe of the Democratic Party.

We remain a deeply unserious nation, led by deeply unserious people, endlessly and slavishly fawning to people who manage to be both deeply unserious and deeply dangerous.

Well written as always Ronni.

I was (still am) a bit of a geography nerd so I definitely looked at it a lot in my younger years; I’m 100% certain I’d never noticed that before.

Pretty comical stuff truth be told.