New Year Dinner Party - choose your guests

[salymap]

Peter Katin
My local cousin
Hornspieler
Rob Cowan

Icould just sit back and listen and learn [and be entertained]

[Alison]

Good to see some men of the cloth included.

Chelmsford has just had its own new Bishop who seems like a very nice man.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

1. Sir David Willcocks. I met him once but his minders pulled him away during our conversation.
2. Frau Alpensinfonie
3. I don't have favourites, so I'll pass.
4. Cheryl Cole

Although, I passed on "3", I'll add Smittims, as I would welcome the opportunity to try to persuade him to return to the fold.

[Serial_Apologist]

They don't have to be still living, do they??

Thanks. Then I'll invite Jesus Christ, The Buddha, Karl Marx and... er... Jonathan Porritt. Between them I'd like to think they could come up with a few solutions to the world's problems.

S-A

[BetweenTheStaves]

1 Anne Sofie von Otter

2 The rather fetching pretty young girl from our village shop or the young lass from the pub with eyes that a man could drown in.....sigh !

3 Salymap EDIT: Quote 'It makes life interesting, for me at least as I am often the only one [at home] who knows what I am talking about." Marvellous stuff!

4 The Queen ....I'm sure she would have some good after-dinner anecotes!

[Serial_Apologist]

Now why didn't I think to include Salymap? All that pent-up wisdom from down the years...

[salymap]

Wisdom, I wish ! Surely Euda would be your suitable partner. I thought of choosing her but my four already know each other so that saves all those embarrassing introductions. Err, except my librarian cousin of course.

[subcontrabass]

(1) Sir John Tavener

(2) Lady Tavener (necessary to look after him)

(3) frenchfrank (unless someone else wants to volunteer)

(4) one of several mutual friends of myself and the Taveners

[scottycelt]

No messageboarders, please ...we'd probably all get the shock of our lives ... and no musicians either as I wouldn't have a clue what they were rabbiting on about.

So my four would be ...

The Rev Ian Paisley
Professor Richard Dawkins
The Right Honourable Gordon Brown
Ms Nigella Lawson (if only to look after the turkey so that the wife can have a well-earned rest, of course)

[Uncle Monty]

How about

(i) a musician

(ii) someone not famous / local to you

(iii) a messageboarder

(iv) a wildcard for anyone else !

(i) Heinrich Schiff (he cooks and is a laugh, as well as a supreme musician)

(ii) The rather mysterious lady who recently moved in to the next house down the lane

(iii) salymap, of course

(iv) Michael Kennedy

[Serial_Apologist]

(4) one of several mutual friends of myself and the Taveners

SIR.. Paul McCartney?

[salymap]

Well I need to put on weight so could all these dinner engagements run consecutively, say for the next week.
There seem to be quite a lot of mysterious barmaids, gorgeous shop assistants, etc. What about an attractive older man or two?

[subcontrabass]

SIR.. Paul McCartney?

Not on my list of friends.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There seem to be quite a lot of mysterious barmaids, gorgeous shop assistants, etc. What about an attractive older man or two?

Oh, I think there are plenty of us already.

[salymap]

Subcontrabass. Isabel H perhaps. Athene's mother and a link of mine though mutual friend. She does/or did wonderful work for Road Peace.