Dinner with Communists

Venue: 

The Kremlin

Host: 

Comrade Stalin

 

Salmon Roe and Herring

Salted Cucumbers and Meat Salad

Grilled Vegetables

Borsht

Pelmeni

Blini

Lamb Cutlets

Pierogi with Ice Cream

Served with Wine and Vodka

Millionaire Row

Residences:

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:
Chaucer Road, Bateman Street
Grantchester, Fulbourn

Edinburgh:
Scotland Street, Dundas Street, Moray Place

London:
Egerton Crescent (Kensington & Chelsea),Berkeley Street (Mayfair)

Surrey:
Long Ditton, Surbiton, Kingston

Hong Kong:
Jardine's Lookout, Taikoo Shing

New York City:
The Prasada (50 Central Park West, Manhatten)

Irene Pollock

Insufferable Mothers:

Insist on buying gender neutral birthday gifts for their son.

Insist on holding gender neutral birthday parties for their son.

Insist that their son wears crushed strawberry coloured dungarees.

Insist on rounding out their child by tutoring them at home after school whilst listening to Dante's Inferno in Italian.

Force their child to take Italian language; yoga and saxophone lessons during any spare time he/she has.

Believe that Scouts are too militaristic.

Ban their child from wearing a kilt due to being too nationalistic and arcane.

Believe that swearing in literature represents social realism.


2025 update:

Insist on getting their child an Irish passport even though they live in Scotland and not an Irish resident or citizen.

Insist on their child acquiring some sense of Irish identity via a planned identity programme and recruiting an Irish culture tutor.

*Ideas taken from the 44 Scotland Street series written by Alexander McCall Smith *