New Year Dinner Party - choose your guests

[french frank]

To be absolutely fair that's not me, that's the late John Wells from his Anyone For Denis? show about Mr Thatcher.

Woy actually said he was very happy with plonk. Though I do recall him refusing, insistently (he won), an alcoholic fruit cup specially concocted by the ladies of Kingswood SDP ...

[salymap]

Mandy,Anna, crumbs have you read Agatha Christie's 'Sparkling Cyanide' ?

[Anna]

Mandy,Anna, crumbs have you read Agatha Christie's 'Sparkling Cyanide' ?

No, sorry saly, never read any Agatha I think but, now, are we thinking of the same Mandy? Do you mean Peter M, Blair's Kingmaker? No, I mean our resident Obit Expert, dear old Mandy, the undertakers' helpmate, he'd be fun I think? I bet, close up, personal, he's as soft and sweet as a choccy Belgian truffle!

[Nick Armstrong]

dear old Mandy, the undertakers' helpmate..... I bet, close up, personal, he's as soft and sweet as a choccy Belgian truffle!

I won't bother bringing After Eights then....

[Mandryka]

Anna, you're absolute right....soft and sweet is me, indeed....and you can have me anytime!

[amateur51]

Anna, you're absolute right....soft and sweet is me, indeed....and you can have me anytime!

Oh dear! ... the words 'Slack Alice' have just popped unbidden into my mind

[Serial_Apologist]

I won't bother bringing After Eights then....

Remember that Larry cartoon depicting a couple in bed, helping themselves to sweets from a box labelled "After Sex Mints"? It was probably in private Eye.

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh dear! ... the words 'Slack Alice' have just popped unbidden into my mind

Excuse me - is this the Radio 3 supporter's baiting agency?

[Lateralthinking1]

On Roy Jenkins, I was a bit disappointed on seeing him "live". I spent about two weeks trying to talk staunch Labour supporters into accompanying me to the De Grey Rooms in York to see him. Ultimately they relented but were sceptical. By contrast, I had his books and often viewed him as the only possible saviour of the country.

For the whole of his speech he had the contents of his nose running down his face. One friend turned to me and said "he needs to blow his nose". At that point, I burst into the kind of laughter that is loud and wholly uncontrollable. I was going hot and cold and quite furious with myself.

At the moment that he realised there was a problem and kept looking in our direction, I just wanted to run out of there. It didn't go at all as I had anticipated. More recently I have read things which make me think he was a bit overrated. I am just pleased that it wasn't Shirley Williams who has been a trusted voice of reason throughout.

[Lateralthinking1]

Slip of the keys. Ignore this space.

[amateur51]

Excuse me - is this the Radio 3 supporter's baiting agency?

[Stillhomewardbound]

Musician: Melvyn Tan

Friend: Murray Hipkin (ENO, NLC & Pink Singers)

MBer: Amateur 51

Wildcard: Senator David Norris



ALTERNATE INVITE LIST (Radio Folk)

Musician: Ian Burnside

Friend: Sue Sharpe

MBer: (honorary) Gillian Reynolds

Wildcard: David Jacobs

[Alison]

This years selection


Musician: Stephen Layton

Friend: My opposite neighbour 'Mike' who goes to work but otherwise
seeems a total recluse and whose cat has recently died.

MBer: Toss up between Caliban and Highland Dougie

Wildcard: Again cant decide between the newsreader Chris Eakin and the
Rev Dr James Hawkey, Minor Canon at Westminster Abbey

[amateur51]

Musician: Melvyn Tan

Friend: Murray Hipkin (ENO, NLC & Pink Singers)

MBer: Amateur 51

Wildcard: Senator David Norris



ALTERNATE INVITE LIST (Radio Folk)

Musician: Ian Burnside

Friend: Sue Sharpe

MBer: (honorary) Gillian Reynolds

Wildcard: David Jacobs

Cheers SHB! - something to look forward to

[Nick Armstrong]

Cheers SHB! - something to look forward to

You aren't half in demand, ams! Your dance card will be full by the end of the month, at this rate!