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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: how do I stop my fat friends breaking my chairs?

21 August 2021

9:00 AM

21 August 2021

9:00 AM

Q. We have two very longstanding and generous-hearted (female) friends. Both have always been overweight, but since Covid they have ballooned and now are obese by anyone’s measure. On the two occasions when we have hosted them for an outside lunch, they have unknowingly broken one of our metal garden chairs each.

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