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My name's Jonathan Vernon Smith and with me is William Hanson.

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What are we going to talk about today, William?

We're going to talk about hosting.

Oh, lovely.

Yes, which is something that you and I do a lot.

Less so now, I'll be honest with you.

Yeah, I don't do it as much as I used to. Is there a correlation between you hosting less and moving the kitchen outside? No, no, that's not it. Oh. No. I just... Don't have any friends. Well, there is that, but also I just can't be bothered as much anymore. I sort of do know what you mean. Since we've moved, I've had the sort of the hosting bug back.

Yeah. But in the old place, we've just got so bloody bored. Yeah. It's so small and pokey. and once everyone I'd be over for one dinner, it was like, right, done it.

Right.

So literally for the last... In fact... small and pokey and once everyone had been over for one dinner it's like right done it right so

literally for the last in fact actually when I wrote in my host book about the dinner party we had a

few weeks ago it was like two years that won the entry on the previous page was two years ago can you

imagine but I think that's quite normal. Yeah.

You know, the novelty kind of wears off a bit. And particularly when you've had, I mean, I presume you do most of your hosting at the weekend. Yes. You know, when you've had a busy week and then you think, oh gosh, I've got six people coming around for dinner tomorrow. It's quite a lot of extra work then, isn't it? And sometimes, I think as you get older, you just think, I'm going to scale back on a lot of that. Because I haven't got the energy or the inclination. Now, tomorrow night at time of recording, I'm hosting a dinner. It's a black tie dinner I'm hosting. At your house? No. In a hotel for 20. And it's for, don't wait, you're not invited, but for a reason. It's for my company's 25th anniversary. So we've got staff passed and present coming. Oh, nice. Yes. And that's the sort of hosting nice, because I'm not in charge of the cookery. I'm not in charge of the wine. I mean, I've selected it. I'm not in charge of the serving. I'm not even doing the flowers or table setting.

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