Very early, though, he became the family's salesman: theatrical, sporty, sociable, and with skills picked up at the kitchen table, where his mother Rose would urge coffee and cake on anyone who ventured by.He was also the most competitive of the brothers, always pushing to expand and modernise.
It opens up what could otherwise be quite a pokey space and connects the two floors in a sociable way; I can be cooking dinner in the kitchen and carry on a conversation with everyone upstairs.
In the kitchen and dining area – which they turned into one big sociable space by knocking down a wall – she added a splashback of blue, mismatched, Moorish-style tiles.
In a converted, red-brick grain warehouse, it has a quayside cafe-bar serving down-to-earth meals at reasonable prices (pizzas, tempura-battered hake and chips or farm-assured burgers), a sociable library-cum-lounge, a games room, a bike store and a communal self-catering kitchen.
Our group was more interested in the convivial living room, well-equipped kitchen, beautiful views and easy access to pleasant footpaths that made for a perfectly sociable weekend break.
He refused to work in the Kitchen Efficient; he rejected even a refrigerator; he was unwilling to give up the daily, sociable visits of the iceman, who was a good friend of his.
Dinner – a long, sociable affair – was chunky soup, crusty homebaked bread, salads and old-fashioned puddings served on the wooden tables in the kitchen.
"Being sociable is important.
Not particularly sociable.
