General Chat

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr! It certainly is a bit chilly around here.

Cherry dear, I shall not send you a bill for the cleaning of the furcoat as I feel partly to blame. But not much!

Thank you Lesley for the soup, Cherry has a red moustache where she wolfed it down.

Stronger stuff dear, I think you should know I am teetotal. Strong liquor does not touch my lips.

I think we may pack up now Cherry. The rush came early on.

Tell you what, Georgianna only lives at the end of the street, go down there and knock on her door. I shall get on the Bloooooberry and tell her you are coming along. I shall suggest she puts you in her second best spare bedroom, bring you a couple of hot water bottles, and perhaps you can get some feeling back into your hands and feet.

I shall pack up with Pat-trish-aaaaah and come along to see you later on.

Take care dear, it is number 69, on the left. The one with the Wisteria around the door.

Take care dear....................
Auntie Petunia

Good morning Ladies. By golly it has been cold here.

We did quite well at the Autumn Fayre yesterday. Our trinklets sold out. The tea stall was a roaring success and the cakes sold, well, like hot cakes. Our little lavender sachets sold out, and the other ladies of the WI did equally well. The dear little children will have a wonderful Christmas Party in the church hall this year.

Sooo, what has happened to dear Cherry? I sent her along to Georgianna to warm up, but she seems to have gawn missing.

I must say it is a very long road, and when I arrived at Georgiannas' the 9 in the 69 had become unhinged, and it appeared as 66. I do hope that dear Cherry is not still walking, trying to find the right house................

I shall put out the alarm amongst the ladies of the Parish, we will find her in no time at all, I hope.

Off to inform the troops.

Toodle Pip
Auntie Petunia

Police Traffic Report

North bound traffic has been severely disrupted apparently caused by a slow moving tuk tuk.

A police spokesperson has now confirmed the tuk tuk was being driven by a confused lady who was suffering from hypothermia.

The lady was taken to the local hospital and is said to be making a full recovery.

A bystander has said he could hear the lady who kept saying Georgina Wisteria 69.

Lesley, good evening to you dear.

How thoughtful of your to post that a stray tuk tuk has been sighted.

I didnt like to say so, but we did pack up the boxes from the Autumn Fayre to put in the tuk-tuk and it WAS missing. Pat-trish-aaaah had chained it to the lamp-post but the chain had been cut. But that often happens so we were not too alarm. I phoned Constable Haywain to tell him, and he said he would look out for it.

Please do tell me exactly which hospital this poor lady is in. I shall make a phone call to see if it in fact Cherry.

That poor, poor woman, all alone in a strange place!

Distressed
Auntie Petunia

Auntie Petunia I am so surprised that Constable Haywain was unable to give you any information............. it was his lifetime friend Constable Mill that was the police spokesperson and he that said lady had been taken to the Stream Hospital. :-D

Must dash as I have a dance reserved..............Oh dear I am late.

Never fear Ladies :-D

Dear Cherry took a turn down the A12 and is heading past the very police station where Lesley had her unfortunate bump. She's nipping up towards the Roundabout and is heading for........ Oh I thought she was on her way to Mersea Island but she's heading up toward the uni and on to Frinton on Sea for some genteel company and a pint in the pub on the way :-D


FTE is settled in the top bunk and is in Portugal at the moment. You will be encouraged to know that they too have cold and rainy weather. At least our weather is free and unlike the poor paying passengers we have not forked out a small fortune for the pleasure :-(

FTY is playing the guitar away from the crowds in the lounge :-D he likes to plug it in the amp :-( it sounds like we are in the mosh pit at Milton Keynes :-S

Toddle pip for now

Teresa

I have just been reading the past posts Ladies, thank you for all your best wishes to FTE. It's been a bit strange but I'm back on normal service now :-D

I hope all is well with the car Lesley and hope that all is well with baby E at the special hospital.

Your dress is lovely Susan, I may need to borrow it at at later stage next summer. I have a dear friends sons wedding :-D

Cherry have fun in Frinton and try not to wander any further down the coast where the pubs and takeaways are :-D

Thank you for waving offff FTE Auntie. The lace kerchief was needed :-(

Tally Ho for now, I'm feeding FTY who is now FTY who is two inches taller than his dear Mama and 4inches taller than his Grandmama. He is still a lot shorter than papa and Grandpapa who are 6 foot 2 and 6 foot :-D

Teresa

Hello Ladies,

It is 7pm Tuesday evening, I have been outside painting the ruddy fence. We have had the hottest day today, first good one for the season. I am sipping on a sav to rehydrate myself :-D.

Teresa, nice to see you back. I am glad to hear fruit is settled. I am sure she will find sunshine around the next bay ;-). Hope her room mates are nice people?
I think FTY must cost you a fortune in shoes and trousers... He still has some growing to do. My brother is over 6'. I am a shorty by comparison. Oh for longer legs :-(.

~~~~~~ to Petunia and Lesley. Constable Haywain indeed, next you will be telling me Stream Hospital is in the country??? .

OH and I did visit a Constable exhibition here in NZ. I think every ones Nana had a 'print' hanging in their lounge... Now I wonder what Constable would make of my piece of modern art?. Confused beyond all get out, I should think.

I hope CC is having a lovely time away. As they say, a change is as good as a rest. Though why I don't know... Answers on tha back of a postcard please :-D.

Time to think about cooking some dinner. Chicken Korma tonight, easy, quick and quite delicious - if you like a curry...

Have a lovely day,

Susan...

Hello Ladies

Susan twas not me but Constable Mill that mentioned the Stream Hospital:-D

Maybe Auntie Petunia you have joined CC and the other ladies and gentlemen in the genteel retreat of Frinton on Sea................were the gentlemen still doff there hats when greeting a lady :-)

Teresa glad to hear FTE is okay :-) I hope the weather soon improves for all. with FTY playing his guitar at least the house won't seem quiet :-D

Hot Susan, hot!!!!!!!!!! :-S chance would be a fine thing it's sooooooo cold and dank here and getting dark at 4pm.

Me and Lesley live but a sones throw from Constable and Gainsborough country. It's very pretty :-D

I've seen a few Ladies who look like Auntie in Frinton Lesley. They tuck there long frocks in their undergarments when paddling in the sea :-D


Teresa

Puffs and pants onto the thread, and flops into the chair.

Good evening ladies, I have been traipsing all over Essex looking for dear Cherry, and have not found her yet. She has gawn missing.

Pat-trish-aaah did not have to pedal as we are now motorised, but Essex is quite a large county.

Hellooo dear Upsidedown Susan. I hope you are going authentic with your curry, and having poppadoms and all the works.

Of course Stream Hospital is in the country. Constable Haywain and Constable Mill gave us full instructions, and we now have a sat-nav on the handlebars.

I am pleased your Fruit is having a high old time on the high seas dear Teresa. She will literally be a woman of the world when she returns home. Of course with a lovely tan.

Lesley dear, I hope you too are looking for the missing Cherry dear. It is dreadful to have lost ones Cherry!

I have not been paddling at all dear, far too chilly.

Take care dears, keep warm
Auntie Petunia

I seek her here I seek her there

I seek our Cherry Crumble everywhere

I could not see her in Frinton

Drinking tea from her Minton

All shops searched that sell junk

Thinking I may see her on the arm of a hunk

Where ever you be on land or at sea

Here's wishing you well our CC x

Tonight is Halloween :-(,

We have never celebrated Halloween, but NZ seems to be taking on this day now...

I have weakened and bought a few chocolate bars for any callers....

My fruit is fuming, she just had a young lad knock, wearing a balaclava... Trick ot treat or breaking and entering? :-D.

If we don't get any callers, guess who is going to be eating chocolate ;-). It is a tough job but someone has to do it......

CC will be back with a tale or two, no doubt. Lesley, nice poem...

Hello Petunia, :-( I cheated with the curry.... "Thanks Pataks" ;-).. I do sometimes make a couple of raita's and purchase naan bread to accompany our 'curry'. Some time ago, I went to the local Indian restaurant and purchased two naan bread.... I think the man behind the counter was less than pleased with my order... Tough, I say. I prefer Thai but we don't have a Thai here in the back of beyond..

Today while out shopping, I spotted those lovely segmented orange chocolate thingymajingys.... I must return to the shop and purchase some for C.......S ( don't want to say the word). Must confess though, that day is already in my head. Tomorrow is November 1st, the year is flying by it would seem. :-S.

Better get on, OH will be home soon and looking for his dinner :-).

Toodle pip,

Susan

Trick or treat, trick or treat, give us something nice to eat?

How about a rat pie?

Those dear little children have been hammering at the door since 4.30pm. Tis Half Term, so the little blighters are roaming the streets with their Mamas.

Should these children not be in bed by this time? Should they not be studying to be good little children? Should they not be somewhere else?

If one more child knocks at the door, I shall send Pat-trish-aaaah to open it in her face pack............

RAT TAT TAT TAT

Pat-trish-aaaaaah go and open the door, there is a dear................

Thank you dear.

Pat-trish-aaaaah ambles to the door, hair in curlers wearing a face pack. Opens door.

Three little children run screaming..........................................

Chuckling quietly
Auntie Petunia

oh what can I say - the hospital eventually had to release me. I managed to persuade them using the Sanity Claus. Well, it is nearly Christmas .....

Now ladies please stop clamouring, and I will respond to you all .. one at a time.


Petunia dear I could not find no.69, with lots of wisteria, but there was a number 66 - only the numbers were loose so it looked like house number 99. I rang the bell and the big burly bearded man who came to the door insisted he was not Georgianna and threatened me with his wheelie bin. So I asked him, where had he really been ..... then he threatened me with his trouble and strife.

Fancy traipsing all over Essex searching for me, when I was not there. Mind you, had my Great Great Grandpapa not left The Hedinghams, I might have been an Essex Girl and had some fun in my heyday .....

The tuktuk was impounded by the local council and I think you will find it languishing in a council car park somewhere, I do so hope you dont have to pay £200 to get it back.


Ah Lesley, there you are. I wandered lonely as a (Amazon) cloud, up and down the road, until a police officer who said his name was Constable Landscape felt my collar and said I was rather hot under it. I spent a night in the police cells before being carted off to the hospital.

Nice ditty ....... ! :-)
(*thinks ..... hmmmm, I didnt realise I had a rival ..... this goes from bad to verse ;-) )


Now, Teresa, it must have been someone else in Essex, for it was not me. I can assure you I was not in Frinton. I went to Mersea Island once, a long time ago ..... they refused to stamp my passport.

I do hope your FTE is not having to work too hard on the SS Cruiser, also that the choppy weather is not causing any sea sickness ........ and please tell your FTY to go play Over The Hills And Far Away. Honestly, some House and Garage Music should never be heard in either the house or the garage. Does he take requests? Can he play Hippy Hippy Shake, or Twist And Shout? He is sure gyrating and hollerin' .... !!! ;-)

Height is a funny thing - OH is a veritable giant. His grandpapa was only a little man. His papa stood somewhere inbetween.


We-e-e-elllllllll - as I said, I did not go to Frinton. But I will just say "I've been Everywhere, Man", and I will put put a narrative together with some photographs (if I was successful with the camera, that is) and email it to you, if you would like.

And here I am, home again, just in time for trick or treat. We do not open the door on the night of Samhain. The little devils can buy their own goodies.

CC

I'm sorry Susan, I'm not ignoring you. Is the fence work finished now? If not, would you like me to send Tommy Walsh over?

Have you got your MOB ensemble together now? Yes that is a lovely dress and you will outshine the Mother of the Groom.

Ah well, we must all knuckle down, and put up with the tail end of Sandy. I feel so sorry for the American people. I dont remember such a serious hurricane hitting New York before, just the snow storms.

CC

Hello CC,

nice to see you back after yet another ordeal..

We only had one knock on the door last night so there is a lot of chocolate for me to eat, though I have a suspicion we may have little visitors tonight.

My fruit has two wrappers at the end of her driveway - yep, from the chocolate bars she gave out :-|. Little beggars, oh to use a 'u' ;-).

I hope the little children Patr ish aaa saw off haven't been scarred for life... One will never know.

How sad, too bad, never mind ;-).

Toodle pip

Susan - full up on porridge, blueberries, strawberries and banana !!

*theatrical gasp, and raises hand to brow*

oh yes it was such an ordeal Susan - pub lunches every day, and dinner at a Carvery or a Harvester .........

It wasnt a pub crawl, honest !! :-)

pmsl
CC
(although I dont think I will be laughing when the credit card bill comes :-S :-( )

Good morning Ladies,

What a stormy night, the rain lashed, the wind blew, and my pathway is covered in leaves. I shall get Pat-trish-aaaah out there straight away..................

Ah Cherry, what time did you arrive home? The first I knew of it was when I went to the pantry last night, and found most of the food gone!!!!!!!! However, welcome home dear.

Susan, have you been espying my breakfast, for that is exactly what I have every day. That is what keeps us going dear, is it not?

Pleased your fence is now finished. A question dear, is it for keeping people out, or for keeping you in?

Lesley, I hope your evening past peacefully.

Now excuse me dears, you must have thought me a harridan last night............I did give the little loves Rat Pie. But.......................it was marshmallows with sugar mice underneath. Their little tails hanging out the side of the dish.

I called them all back when they had had the fright of their lives, and they worked their way steadily through the Pie. I hope they were not too sick when they arrived home....................

Another day, another good deed to perform.

Pip Pip Gels
Auntie Petunia

Auntie dear,

I have borrowed a book from the lending library and it is called The Thrift Book. It is a great source of saving money especially where food is concerned :-D I shall send it down the cyber hatch for a couple of weeks. It may come in handy :-D

We also have a glut of chocolate for the little trick or treaters did not arrive last night on the doorstep. It was a little difficult in negotiating the large black wheels bin and medium size green one. Maybe they just couldn't get by them for Tursdays are bin days in our parts.

I have had communication from FTE. She is on English shores but tonight they set sale to the Caribbean. She is very excited and is having a good time. Targets have been met and the shelves are decked and they are awaiting of a pizza delivery. Yes you heard right. A famous pizza delivery company were winging takeaway pizza to the pizza starved staff of the high seas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aunts best you hot foot it to Southampton now and install a bit of decorum into them. I have also been sent the address of the ship to send some clothes to FTE. She packed her whole wardrobe and more so goodness only knows what she has missing
:-S

Off now to remove FTY from the devils x box. He has guitar lesson soon and need to twang a few cords before his teacher arrives . His teacher is a music student, younger than FTE :-D


Toddle pip for now


Teresa