New Year Dinner Party - choose your guests

[subcontrabass]

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

While I knew Athene Hariades I have never met her mother.

[Petrushka]

(ii) There's a rather gorgeous young lady called Katie who works at the local Co-Op.

What is it about the Co-op? There is a particularly fetching young lady called Kim in ours Doubt if she knows much about music though.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

What is it about the Co-op? There is a particularly fetching young lady called Kim in ours Doubt if she knows much about music though.

If your Co-op is anything like our Co-op, she will hear music of a kind all day. :(

[Mr Pee]

If your Co-op is anything like our Co-op, she will hear music of a kind all day. :(

We have two Co-Ops within a few hundred yards of each other here in Bosham. One on the south side of the roundabout, in Old Bosham- which is the posh part (where I live, obviously),- and one on the North side, in New Bosham, to supply the peasants.

I am pleased to say that neither branch plays piped music. The main difference between the two is that the Southern Branch has a selection of local cheeses, ales,delicatessen products and condiments, while the Northern sells bread and dripping. A bit like Waitrose and Tesco.

Both have very comely assistants though. The lovely Katie works in the posh branch, which means I can gaze whistfully at her nubile form while I purchase my Sussex Charmer.

[salymap]

I'm SO glad I'm not the only poster to go off topic. This has degenerated from dinner parties to the nubile charms of Co-op ladies. I'm pleased to report that a very nice young man put surgical tape on my cut finger for me recently at my local Co-op, he also mopped up the blood with blue paper and said "take care".

[Uncle Monty]

We have two Co-Ops within a few hundred yards of each other here in Bosham. One on the south side of the roundabout, in Old Bosham- which is the posh part (where I live, obviously),- and one on the North side, in New Bosham, to supply the peasants.

You're not the chap who helpfully told my then girlfriend many years ago that it was perfectly OK to park by the church, omitting to mention the small matter of the tide, are you?!

We were advised never to buy a car from anyone in Bosham

[Uncle Monty]

I'm SO glad I'm not the only poster to go off topic. This has degenerated from dinner parties to the nubile charms of Co-op ladies. I'm pleased to report that a very nice young man put surgical tape on my cut finger for me recently at my local Co-op, he also mopped up the blood with blue paper and said "take care".

Oh, all right then, I'll enter into the spirit of the thing by mentioning two especially alluring ladies in Coleford Co-op here. (I was also lured by the promise of BOGOF dishwasher tablets.) They are called Nicole and Julia, and while not exactly nubile in the dictionary sense of "marriageable" (probably Been There, Done That), a smile from them on a winter's day is quite capable of making an old man very happy

[greenilex]

I quite fancy making a cauldron of risotto (black rice, mushrooms) and a smaller kettle of vegetable curry for the members of the Vienna Phil.

I fear they won't accept, though.

[amateur51]

Oh, all right then, I'll enter into the spirit of the thing by mentioning two especially alluring ladies in Coleford Co-op here. (I was also lured by the promise of BOGOF dishwasher tablets.) They are called Nicole and Julia, and while not exactly nubile in the dictionary sense of "marriageable" (probably Been There, Done That), a smile from them on a winter's day is quite capable of making an old man very happy

If I might offer some recommendations for my tribe, the male shelf-stackers at Waitrose Finchley Road (John Barnes as woz) are both a treat for the eye and wonderfully helpful & polite too. I fall in love there on most visits but being a gent and British too, I keep it under my hat!

[salymap]

Am 51, you can always cheer me up you out-going old thing. [I was going to say outrageous, but thought better of it] Saly x

[StephenO]

If I might offer some recommendations for my tribe, the male shelf-stackers at Waitrose Finchley Road (John Barnes as woz) are both a treat for the eye and wonderfully helpful & polite too. I fall in love there on most visits but being a gent and British too, I keep it under my hat!

My local Waitrose has a number of charmimg redheads amongst its female staff, any of whom would be welcome to grace my dinner table.

I'd also add Daniel Barenboim as he's one of my greatest musical heores, Salymap because she always seems so nice and JK Rowling so I could ask her the secret of her success.

[David Samuels]

1) Catherine Mackintosh
2) Rodney Stock (a retired solicitor with good humour and a cellar)
3) french frank
4) Robert Levin

[David Samuels]

Oh, all right then, I'll enter into the spirit of the thing by mentioning two especially alluring ladies in Coleford Co-op here. (I was also lured by the promise of BOGOF dishwasher tablets.) They are called Nicole and Julia, and while not exactly nubile in the dictionary sense of "marriageable" (probably Been There, Done That), a smile from them on a winter's day is quite capable of making an old man very happy

Perhaps it would be more interesting were they to make a happy man very old.

[scottycelt]

... the male shelf-stackers at Waitrose Finchley Road (John Barnes as woz) are .. a treat for the eye ... :

I know it's the New Year, and I'm supposed to be kind , but 'the male shelf-stackers' at my local Waitrose are a right eye-sore, as far as I'm concerned .. and that goes for those at the Co-op and Tescos as well. Maybe I should try Sainsburys ... ?

[Simon]

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.

Three of them would be redundant, I think. The first has already explained what we need to do!