Since I've finally acquired a couple of decent guest rooms, it seems silly not to get a little more use out of them.
LeSport in St Lucia is a good, all-inclusive choice with a huge amount going on, which you can take or leave (thebodyholiday.com) and a decent chunk of guests are alone.
"You're thinking, how do you provide decent service to guests without them seeing that you've cut back on staffing levels, or noticing you're putting two bags of coffee in the room instead of four?" she said.
You needn't fear being called a bounder or bolter or axed from decent folk's guest lists like poor Anna.
Sure, Death In Paradise gets a decent calibre of guest star but it's tempting to think that's less to do with the quality of the script than the show's setting.
Ensure that the house is in a decent condition when your guests arrive.
We can almost imagine the once murderous robot as a decent conversationalist and party guest.
And he makes decent use of his guest singers, including a classically suave D'Angelo, an androgynous-sounding Raphael Saadiq, a sassy Amanda Diva and a coolly ethereal Norah Jones.
It is often served a decent interval after a guest has arrived - to serve it too soon might be an impolite suggestion of haste - and then once again before departure.
"I was in my late twenties," Niven says, "with a decent salary, a company car, guest lists, flying round the world.
