As we have begun to come out of weeks and months of covid lockdowns and isolating for days or weeks on end because family has caught the virus, we have all slowly come around to realising that it would be nice to have get togethers. Do you remember them? They were events that you may have organised to celebrate a family member’s milestone, such as a birthday or anniversary, or to invite some friends over just to see them in person again, and converse with them face to face rather than over facetime or zoom. Yes, these things used to occur.

But you know what? There are some things about those events that I didn’t miss, and to be fair I had sort of forgotten about, and one of those was the preparation that goes on for several hours before the event begins, and then the aftermath that evening and into the next day.

And that will be the basis of today’s conversation. The pros and cons of what goes on before and after home gatherings, on today’s episode of Thoughts From the Metal Cavern.