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If you could organise a dinner party, and had complete freedom to chose the guest-list...
1) Who would you want to be the Chef, and why?
2) Which three (or five) people, current or historical... but probably not fictional, would you invite, and why?
1) Nigella Lawson. Don't particularly care what the food's like. (And I know nothing about the food of any of the celebrity chefs, so I couldn't make a meaningful choice!)
2) [info]nickys, of course! George Silver (author or "Paradoxes of Defence"), because I like his style, and he speaks English, so he's the best of the many authorities on combat from the renaissannce I could have chosen. My paternal grandfather, because I never met him as he died before I was born. Alan Rickman, to make [info]nickys happy & 'cos i think he'd be interesting once we dealt with the drool problem. And Jesus, because I think he was a sound bloke & I'd like to hear his opinions on what people have done with his message. And he'd be handy if the drink ran out!
If fictional is allowed I'd have to have Harry Flashman.
1) Who would you want to be the Chef, and why?
2) Which three (or five) people, current or historical... but probably not fictional, would you invite, and why?
1) Nigella Lawson. Don't particularly care what the food's like. (And I know nothing about the food of any of the celebrity chefs, so I couldn't make a meaningful choice!)
2) [info]nickys, of course! George Silver (author or "Paradoxes of Defence"), because I like his style, and he speaks English, so he's the best of the many authorities on combat from the renaissannce I could have chosen. My paternal grandfather, because I never met him as he died before I was born. Alan Rickman, to make [info]nickys happy & 'cos i think he'd be interesting once we dealt with the drool problem. And Jesus, because I think he was a sound bloke & I'd like to hear his opinions on what people have done with his message. And he'd be handy if the drink ran out!
If fictional is allowed I'd have to have Harry Flashman.
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Guests:
William Marshal - best knight ever.
Froissart - best chronicler ever.
Meister Liechtenhauer - best sword meister ever.
Edgar Rice Burroughs - best pulp novelist ever.
Malory - to see who turns up!
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Chef - possibly Ainsley Harriott because he seems amusingly strange.
Guests - well, we have plenty of entertaining real-life friends we could invite, but as to famous people I'd like to get to know a bit more about - Queen Matilda (King Stephen's wife, not the Empress Maud, because she did lots of stuff during the Chaos, but isn't really mentioned much in most history books), Mahatma Ghandi, the Dalai Lama, Mo Mowlam and Aung San Su Chi. (those four because I'd like to hear what kept them going through the bad times and setbacks, as well as finding them personally admirable people)
I'm assuming you'd be there anyway, so I don't need to add you to the guest list...