20 goes into 2 how many times?

So how many are we up to now?

I make it 20!

Sebastian my new German flatmate, shows little nerves, I on the other hand am not so confident. We've got a little caught up in the whole excitement of it all, and have been inviting anyone we can think of to the house for christmas day. What started out as a cosy family Christmas dinner for the flat, a little taste of home, it has however now escalated to a full on banquet which is going to require some sort of professional catering service.

"So when do want to go to the Supermarket?"

"I can get the car on Thursday"

"Sounds good"

I've run a few figure through the grey matter and I reckon it's going to take the best part of $400 to get everything, not including booze, hate to try and estimate that one. Not only have we signed up for the logistical nightmare of cooking, but also the nightmare of trying to get money off everyone. Suffice to say we embark on the shopping trip with only our own bank cards in hand, in the hope we get the money back later.
It takes 2 hours to collect the goods in two shopping trollies, trying to keep rigid to the list, haphazardly made up the night before, but inevitably finding things we'd missed off with each turn into a new aisle.
"How much did we get paid last night"
Increasingly getting more and more worried that my wages might not be enough to cover the growing heap.
"It'll be fine"
Now for the most important choice of the visit. Just how many turkey's to get, I reckon 3 to be safe, around the 5kg mark, but we've only got 2 oven? O.k we'll get 2 slightly bigger ones, and pad out the rest of food, and at this point a plan was divised. From a straightish forward dinner of turkey with veg and sausages in blankets... we now have the aforementioned, with soup, lasagne, casserole, trifle, christmas pudding, nibbles, cheese and biscuits, a round of coffee...
So going from a logistical nightmare, we now have the aforementioned logistical nightmare with the additional logistical nightmare of attempting to cook at the same time another 3 main dishes as well as all the little bumff that surrounds it, god going to do well if we pull this one off, not to mention that we don't have a dinning table and only 15 plates and 8 chairs.. We'll see how it goes!