Interview lemming

[karen2205]

1. What's good about doing lj support?

Meeting friendly people/people with a different perspective of life. Meeting fellow grammar pedants. Feeling that LJing isn't a *complete* waste of time.

2. Where is your favourite place?

That's very hard to answer - sometimes it's curled up in bed with a book, sometimes on my sofa with my laptop on my lap, sometimes it's Oxford, with it's beautiful buildings and parks, sometimes it's my mother's house, curled up with my sister.

3. What did you want to be when you grew up, as a child?

Hmm - as a very little child I wanted to be a Mummy with lots of children (I still do want kids, but not more than two or three, and not for a few more years....though I'm well aware that now'd be a good time for me to physically have kids...), my next ambition was to work in a shoe shop - getting new shoes was a treat when I was little - I thought working there'd be fun. Other than that I don't really remember. I remember rejecting the idea of being a doctor 'cos I didn't like science.

4. What's your favourite time of year? Why?

Spring/summer - both have their disadvantages in terms of hayfever, but I like warm (but not too hot) days.

5. Ideal dinner party. Forget the guests, tell me about the food. Would you cook it? What would you have?

Hmm - this is hard. I'd probably start with breaded camembert with salad (with soup for those who don't like camembert), followed by steak, roast potatoes, green beans, peppers and sweetcorn, followed by cheesecake, followed by a cheese course, followed by port, then coffee. I'd do the cooking myself, though I'd probably cheat and prepare various bits and pieces in advance.

(mini grr - fixing the broken links last night caused other things to break - must sort later.)

Comments

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I don't think that preparing dinner party food in advance is cheating, so much as good organisation. (Sounds lovely)

I generally try to have mine all set up in plenty of time so I can have a glass of sherry with guests, and then each course cooks (if necessary) as we're eating the previous course.

[rho]

I really ought to stop being surprised when I discover that two people I know (fsvo "know") from totally different places also know each other. But I haven't done yet.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Ah, the power of the internet.

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[karen2205]

So far I've only held one dinner party, and I found that very hard work, even though there were only three of us....admittidly I'd not had a great deal of time to cook because I'd been busy with LPC stuff....but I'm not convinced that having some stuff cooked in advance is a good idea.....though I know someone who doesn't start cooking until his guests arrive, since that way there's no problems if people turn up later than expected.

Hmm dinner parties - organising more is somewhere on my to do list, it's just not very high....

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[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I tend to have it so that it's all prepared, all the chopping and mixing and so on doing, and then the first course is soup or something cold, so that although most of the work is done beforehand, the last stage is done while people are there. Does that make more sense?

It makes the whole thing less stressful, I find.

I also have a tendnecy to make them really large, so people don't mind gaps between courses so much.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

1. Eerrm ;p
2. Bathtub with book, maybe bottle of a nice white wine, music and sandlewood bath essence.
3. A professional geek. Or a pilot. Or a racing driver. Or a Wizard.
4. Spring. Lovely clear mornings, bright sunshine, and cold. The world slowly waking from winter.
5. Cooking? Hehehe. Steak. Nice.