Unexpected visitors

Ana, yep...

rosesarered eat anything indeed. My brother took in a rescue lab in the days before dogs had cages etc and came home to find the bungalow long hall had two door frames hanging off and all skirting in bits.

Back to the point, I love unexpected visitors. To me it means they are comfortable and sure of a welcome.

If visitors know me well enough to 'just drop in', they will know that I'm far from being a perfect housewife and will accept me as I am. I just wish such a visitor actually existed.

Nobody expects.......the Spanish Inquisition!

Monty Python, for those not in the know.

I like unexpected visitors. As I suffer from CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome) actually inviting anyone to come leads to angst and last minute scurrying. Then I say nervously 'You should have seen it before I tidied up!' at which they smile uncertainly, unsure whether I'm being serious. Unexpected visitors are so much easier!

Yes - when they're not expected!

I wouldn't mind unexpected visitors if they came at the right time - but they always seem to come at the wrong time...

That's what I always say.

Each to their own!

Unexpected visitors are a bit the same as an unexpected letter, gives you a little lift.
Whoa! That sounds a bit Pollyanna of me.

I just love unexpected visitors- they of course always turn up when the place is a tip and the fridge empty- but we always find a way to make it work, somehow- and it often turns out to be the best meals and fun.

Well, the good thing about Labradors is that they eat anything( absoloutely anything.)

Well, this is about unexpected visitors, but with notice IYKWIM.

Ds, ddil and dgs arriving for Christmas and to stay for 5 days. We have a modest 3 bed semi. We don't have pets.
Ds says yesterday that he can't get his 2 labradors into kennels for the holiday, all booked up, so they will be coming also.

It's going to be interesting.

Love marmite

I hate it. I understand that it's the way things used to be but there's no need need when everyone has mobiles. A quick text or call is just common courtesy.

The thing that grinds my gears about it the most is when your getting ready to go out/dishing up dinner and the door goes - we were just passing or whatever they say and then you find out later that they're moaning as you didn't make them feel very welcome - if your going to insist on popping round unannounced surely it's to be expected that it's not always going to be convenient?

Love marmite though

I'd need several day's notice to polish the entire house, plan meals, shop and cook enough to feed an army, tidy the garden, change my clothes etc
I have a friend who was supposed to be spending Christmas Day with her son's family but they arrived early on Christmas morning after being flooded and stayed for ten days. She wailed, "I hadn't cleaned the silver!"

Hate it. And I'd need more than half an hour's notice too! Perhaps I'm just inhospitable, but we have had occasions where people have turned up when I'm in my scruffs with no slap on having a sorting-out-the-cupboards day and "stuff" is everywhere. Or when we're just about to start cooking and they've eaten, so we're hungry by the time they've (finally) gone. It's different if it's one of the family, or a really good friend who loves you whatever you look like and you can just work round - they're welcome any time

I used to hate it for all the reasons above, but now I don't mind although it doesn't happen often.
We all seem to slob about at home, so that doesn't matter, and I can always make a cuppa. If I haven't got biscuits or cake, I just apologise and that's an end to it!
If I should call on someone for any reason, I don't go in unless they insist! Don't like to impose really.

I love people just popping in - mostly it is for a coffee but at times I can also offer them lunch etc depending on the hour - and we have some friends who we can pop in on - what we are all wearing etc is neither here nor there.

Ooh no, Give me half an hour or so as Charleygirl says. I tend to slob about in "house" clothes if I'm not going out. I would be horrified to be caught out.

No, don't like it at all (and wouldn't do it to anyone else!).

Always used to have a mad purge on the house before the in-laws came. OH meanwhile used tidy the garage. Grrr!

Would definitely want a warning

It wouldn't bother me at all, but I live off the beaten track so 'passing by' is highly unlikely!

I don't mind at all as long as they are not staying for hours .. a quick unexpected visit share a chat a cuppa and bikkey is fine by me.

I don't think I minded unexpected visitors when I was much younger and more likely to be rushing around keeping on top of things. Since retiring, however, I'm much more likely to be in my scruffs, with my hair in a mess, and/or the house will be untidy, with washing up in the sink . Half an hour's warning would at least give me a chance to do my hair, get some slap on and hide do the washing up