"Interview" Part 1

Dawn asks which five people I would invite to dinner; and the significance of honeysuckle at the top of my blog page.

There are plenty of people I’d adore having dinner with because I admire them and find them entertaining and funny, such as Rolf Harris, the Australian TV presenter and “national treasure” who’s lived in England most of his adult life but has lost none of his Aussie ways or accent – musician, painter, presenter of a very successful animal TV programme & very funny man who nonetheless always seems interested in others and not himself.

Rolf Harris (Google Images)

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But I’d give my right arm and leg to bring Mollie back to life, a British lady author of a book - found on eBay - which captured my imagination years ago (favourite listed in my Profile) which I’m having a go at translating into Spanish; also her parents, who travelled from Britain to Patagonia (Argentina) during World War I, where her father managed several British-owned sheep farms in very difficult and often inhospitable conditions until 1923, when they returned home.

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Finding out background information before and after their sojourn has been like pulling teeth – but from crumbs of evidence from the internet there’s a moving story waiting to be unearthed. With no descendants to beg for help, I’d go on a pilgrimage to Lourdes and sell my soul to the Devil if I thought I could have them to dinner and have some of my questions answered.

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As Dawn allows me five, I would include the aunt to whom Mollie was close, and one of the managers on the farm, another Australian, an expert in sheep rearing who helped introduce the merino breed to Argentina and who I believe provided advice when she wrote the book. These people have been dead for 30-50 years of course…
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Honeysuckle – I’ve always liked the fact that the latin name of one of my most favourite perfumes, honeysuckle, is lonicera, which is also an anagram of my name. I’ve said to myself for years that if I ever had a blog I’d call it that… voilà!

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