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[suzylou]

The Friday Five.  Because I can.

1. If you could invite five people to dinner from history, living or dead, who would they be?

All four of my grandparents.
My mum.

2. Why have you chosen these five individuals?

Only one of my grandparents was living when I was born.  She was blind, and lived in Coventry in a home that smelled of wee, so I never

Comments

[angua]

Are you not going to have any saffron buns or heavy cake with that meal?

[flingel]

If you really want to get them going try them on brandy and lovage. A proper Cornish drink.

[suzylou]

I suspect grandad would turn his nose up at something that fancy ;)

[angua]

my mum used to drink that.. again with the not realising that things like rum and shrub and brandy and lovage were sort of Cornish til I couldn't find bottles of shrub and lovage up here.

Luckily in the fake St Ives (near me in Cambridge) there's a fantastic booze importer which stocks as standard things like that :)