A Little Light Relief : Daydream Dinners
I’ve been sitting in the sun in the garden with Martin, who’s reading A Fine Old Conflict, an excellent book I must’ve read a dozen times ovr the past 20 years.
I commented that I’d love to have had dinner with Jessica Mitford, which then led onto fantasy dinner-party lists generally. A hackneyed meme yes, nevertheless it’s tried and tested, so here’s my fantasy dinner party:
Jessica Mitford, MFK Fisher, Nancy Mitford ( for added vicious family squabble value), SJ Perelman, Fanny Trollope, Stephen Fry, Evelyn Waugh (so Nancy’d have a shoulder to cry on), Jeremy Hardy (for Jessica), Armando Ianucci, TH White, Samuel Pepys, Linda Smith, EF Benson, Rosa Luxemburg, Martha Gellhorn and Ian Hislop, with Mrs Gaskell and Spalding Gray as first reserves.
Such a dinner party might be bit raconteur-heavy and liable to sound like a cacophony of parrots in full flight, but I think Stephen Fry’s charm and sheer chairmanly abilitiy would carry the day.
Now, about the food…
