Mix and match

SIR – Guy Kelly (Features, May 30) discusses “the lost art of mingling”.

I had 60 guests sitting at 10 tables for my 60th birthday bash. The welcome announcement told them that they had all been placed at a table with people with whom they had something in common – but they had to find out what that was.

Animated conversations and laughter soon rang out, and all sorts of connections emerged. Liz Wicken

Cambridge