Demise of the dining room

Instead of a lounge/diner when I had a lovely table etc I now have a kitchen /diner and I recently got rid of the two bar-type stools. I no longer entertain, we go out so I have my evening meal on my lap watching TV.

We always eat breakfast in the Dining Room. Sunday lunch too and any other meal where at least one more person is in attendance. Otherwise OH and I eat off trays in the lounge.

We have a large kitchen with a table that sits eight comfortably and ten if they squeeze up a bit in the middle of the kitchen.

We always eat dinner in the evening there, but usually only eat lunch there if we have visitors.

In our flat we had got to the stage of never really using the dining-room, so when we moved house we decided against furnishing a room as a dining-room.

We always eat at the table. We had a kitchen table for everyday, and we have a dining room for when we have visitors.
Our kitchen table is now in the living room as we have bought a new American style fridge freezer and there is now not enough space for it.
Fortunately our living room is huge.

We have always eaten at the table in the dining room. I think I’d get indigestion eating off a tray on my lap ?

When on my own, I eat off a tray on my lap. If anyone else is with me, including GC, always at the table. 2 friends and I cook for each other, turn and turn about each week. We do the "fully laid table" with full cutlery, glassware, napkins etc to make it more of a treat for ourselves and each other.

When the first lockdown came in, we decided to abandon eating on our laps in front of the TV and actually enjoy the food and talk to each other. That has stuck. We eat at the table in the kitchen, or if the family are round, in the dining room, set with rather better cutlery, cystal glasses and flowers.