A survey by kitchen and bedroom supplier Sigma3 suggests that the future of the dining room is extinction. Sixty-four per cent of those polled have no use for them, doing all their entertaining, as you might expect, in the kitchen. Not only is the kitchen the 21st Century home's entertainment hub, it's where we pay our bills and watch our TV, too.

That headline? I - for one - mourn the loss of the Quagga. (The dining room, I'm not so bothered about.)

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