Thursday, November 15, 2007

A-Whole-Evening's-Worth-of-Procrastination Meme

Thanks for the tag, Sally!

Five Gentlemen I'd Like To Have Round for Tea
Sir Jimmy Young
Sir Bob Geldof
Tom Lehrer
Richard Branson
Trevor Baylis

Five Ladies I'd Like to Lunch With
Dame Maggie Smith
Dame Judi Dench
Zoe Wanamaker
Victoria Wood
Joanna Lumley

Four People I'd Like To Meet in Heaven (exc. family & friends)
Isaac Asimov
William Wallace
George III
Socrates
Dame Thora Hird

Four Material Things I Couldn't Live Without
My car (sorry, environment)
My camera (for taking lots of piccies of the kids)
My computer (and all its associated widgets)
My washing machine (for all the goo)

Four Things I COULD Live Without
My watch
The TV
The Jeremy Vine Show
The cat jumping on my head at five in the morning

Three Books I Would Save From a Burning Building
The OED (or Chambers, if you prefer)
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, by Richard Bach
My Grandmother’s copy of Black Beauty

Three Books I Would Throw Into a Burning Building
Any childcare book by Miriam Stoppard
The London Orbital, by God Knows (I’ve thrown it already)
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens

Five Songs That Make Me Happy
Handel’s The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Mozart’s Prelude to The Marriage of Figaro
The Flanders & Swann version of Mozart’s Horn Concerto in E flat
Kenny Ball’s version of Mozart’s Rondo (3rd movement, Piano Sonata No 11 in A)
The Dukenfield Brothel, as sung by The Three Crows

Five Songs That Make Me Cry
Pachabel’s Canon in D
Promise Me, by Beverley Craven
Father to Son, by Cat Stevens
Nothing Compares 2U, by SinĂ©ad O’Connor
The Fields of Athenry, folk song

Two Things I Wish I'd Invented
Wireless technology
The telescope

I tag: JJ, and Liz Fenwick

4 comments:

HelenMWalters said...

Ah yes - memes are a great aid to procrastination aren't they! I've been tagged with this one by Cally, so will need to give it some thought!

Jenny Beattie said...

Oh thanks so much Leigh, my head is empty of stuff other than my articles. I was so glad of this.

BUT, I so want my tea party with the men now ... and ... well ... I can't, can I? It's just pretend... *sniffs*

JJx

Jenny Beattie said...

Leigh, Yes, of course you can come to mine ... because I loved your women and I tried really hard not to steal any, but failed, so if I can join you too. I only stole Judi Dench, when really i loved them all. Except I might've made Maggie Smith come as McGonagall, which might embarrass her if no one else was in character!

Unknown said...

Thanks for the tag leigh......will work on it this week :-) i'll come back and let you know when it's done.