Where's the party tonight?

Having been to a few parties this week, but none at the homes of those we reckon as friends, my wife is at a loss about where to have a flutter, or two, with cards

With Diwali a few days away, my wife said to me this morning, “We have useless friends, nobody has invited us for a card party yet.” “I imagine everyone is busy with their families, or work,” I dismissed her cribbing. My wife sometimes makes a mountain out of a molehill. Now was such an occasion. She took out loose sheets of paper on which she had been scribbling what appeared to be accounts, but which revealed themselves to be some sort of score. “We have had 43 card parties at home,” she said, totalling up numbers in her diary. “But