General Chat

oh dear me, Petunia dear, you didnt mean the 'Here and Now' present. You meant the 'gift' present. Why didnt you make it clearer? Of course I shall be delighted to take a look.

My word, it is one of those. Well I never did. Fancy that. The oojamaflip should fit into the thingummybob quite nicely when its finally put together with the owsyervater, and glued down with the wodgacallitt.

Whoever would have thought we could obtain gold plated Create Your Own Jigsaws in the 21st century That will keep the Golden Couple happy and gainfully occupied on many a cold winter night, to be sure.

BTW dear, have you been eating radishes again? You seem to be repeating yourself :-D ;-)

Pardon me. (pickled onions)

#blushes#

Gooooooood morning ladies, from a bright and sunny Motie Towers.

I am afraid the Blooooooberry let me down last night, with the postings, I duplicated myself and am covered in ink!

The gentleman callers arrived about 9pm last night, and we played a couple of hands of Bridge. I must say the Colonel is a proper card sharp, he won all the games.

Cherry dear, did you have to keep shouting Snap in the middle of the games, it was very offputting dear. I shall have to give you one to one lessons in the finer details of the game.

Off to church now ladies, Beatrice is about the call for me, I am to turn the pages while she pumps the organ.

Toodle pip
Auntie Petunia

well I am sorry I kept shouting "Snap" but I thought thats what we were playing. I can tell you this Petunia dear - it was nothing like the Bridge that I am used to playing, and the Colonel was definitely cheating, he had cards up his sleeve, cards in his pockets, and cards tucked away up his ..... oh I cannot bring myself to say the word !! :-D :-D ;-) ;-)

ok you have twisted my arm.







cravat.

A tad chilly this morning. You will have noticed my absence. No? you didnt notice? oh well. I insisted that MFH drive me to Bushey to an antiques and crafts fayre/flea market. I didnt see any fleas worth buying but I did find an Edward VII china mug to add to my royal memorabilia wot the next generation are going to inherit one day.

Everyone has returned :-D

Im just dashing in and out but will return and have a good read through the last few days musings.

I have beeen shopping and perchased a new..........................................................
...................................................................................................................................


Clothes prop for the washing line



Teresa :-D

By golly jingo Teresa dear, you certainly know how to live the high life. A washing line and clothes prop. I can hardly contain the excitement! My own clothes line has been up and down more times than a fiddlers elbow [cleaned that one up!] in the last few days, the showers keep showering and Pat-trish-aaaaah has been running in and out putting out and taking in the washing. We have left it now, and if it comes in more dirty than it went out, then so be it.

I do so love the smell of fresh laundry that has been line dried. All that fresh air wafting around in it.

Beatrice did very well this morning, we had a new tune to Jerusalem, and she did not have time to practice it. She played lustily, I pumped furiously and turned the pages at the same time. Multitasking is nothing new to me. The only problem was the mouse.........................

As you can appreciate an old building has plenty of meeces, and while Beatrice was playing like the Phantom, one run up her leg...................she winced, she screamed and then stood up sharply. The organ went off key, the music sheets went up in the air, and my foot got caught under the pedal.

So here I am with my foot on a stool in the Parlour. It has been bandaged and I have a cold compress on it. Not broken by very, very sore.

That nice Mr Endeavour is on later, so I will hop into my bedroom and watch it there.

Just call me Long John
Auntie Petunia

I must say Petunia dear you are looking most fetching and alluring in your new outfit, where do you find all these outfits? Your wardrobe is so small it looks like it wouldnt hold a chemise let alone a rail of garments of quality.

*thinks* probably got shares in at the Rag Emporium Stall down the flea market.....

I am so sorry to see you with your leg up but on the other hand you are getting some well earned rest, even if it means you are temporarily unable to trot around doing your Good Works.

I expect the church mouse was as frightened of you, as you were of it. Was it the proverbial mouse? or the mickey mouse? the town mouse? the country mouse? or the computer mouse? I have often wondered how loudly the computer mouse squeaks.

Long John doesnt suit you dear. Try Chester and practise calling "Mr Dillon, Mr Dillon". If Pat rish aaaah thinks you have a man in your room, she will come running.


Poor Teresa, nothing more exciting in your life other than the clothes prop and washing line. Still you can jazz up your day by color coordinating the clothes pegs to the shirts and sheets :-D :-D :-D As long as everyone is well and safe :-)

Thank you dear for your compliments. Yes I do try and keep up appearances. One must never be caught without ones' finery on show.

My wardrobe I like to call a dressing room. It does go right back dear, and opens out into a room at the back.

Have you not noticed the distance between one door and another in the corridor?

The mouse was a little brown one dear, and it scuttled! ugh.

Thank you for your concern dear, the leg is better, but I shall still keep Pat-trish-aaaaah at it!

AP

My clothes prop is very usefull, jusr like the naice new handbag I bought in an nice university town in the week. The ladies who lunch and I went on the river punting my dears. A very nice bought up gal took the punt and us for a pleasent drift along the river Cam :-D

Sorry to hear you are feeling off par Susan and the plaster room has another rugger casualty. A couple of years ago FTY was tackled playing the very same game and fratured his left wrist. Happily he is right handed so it didnt interfere with his studies :
:-D :-D

Lesley dear happy belated anniversary. I am very well aquainted with the very pleasent place you had your meal. Many years ago a young gal lived in the very village where you hithered. The wonderful place where you noshed was called the Drapers house. It was run by a lovely couple and had a staff of all ages from the young gal who was at college and felllow student folk to dear ladies of a certain age ;-)

The young gal spent a happy two years or so working at the wonderful place until paid toil training called. The yong gal has photos of her fellow staff and the happy times spent working there. :-D :-D

Cherry dear, I have some golden bin bags and will send them down the cyber hatch, I have a tiararara you can borrow as well.

Auntie, you outfit is very er fetching, did you see in cyber land that a dear ladie is wearing one rather similar ;-)


Laters ;-)

Teresa

My clothes prop is very usefull, jusr like the naice new handbag I bought in an nice university town in the week. The ladies who lunch and I went on the river punting my dears. A very nice bought up gal took the punt and us for a pleasent drift along the river Cam :-D

Sorry to hear you are feeling off par Susan and the plaster room has another rugger casualty. A couple of years ago FTY was tackled playing the very same game and fratured his left wrist. Happily he is right handed so it didnt interfere with his studies :
:-D :-D

Lesley dear happy belated anniversary. I am very well aquainted with the very pleasent place you had your meal. Many years ago a young gal lived in the very village where you hithered. The wonderful place where you noshed was called the Drapers house. It was run by a lovely couple and had a staff of all ages from the young gal who was at college and felllow student folk to dear ladies of a certain age ;-)

The young gal spent a happy two years or so working at the wonderful place until paid toil training called. The yong gal has photos of her fellow staff and the happy times spent working there. :-D :-D

Cherry dear, I have some golden bin bags and will send them down the cyber hatch, I have a tiararara you can borrow as well.

Auntie, you outfit is very er fetching, did you see in cyber land that a dear ladie is wearing one rather similar ;-)


Laters ;-)

Teresa

Oops I have double posted :-S

Auntie, now you were talking of spices. FTE is traveling to cooler climates on her next jaunt after her hols at home. I however knowof a very naice spice shop nearer to home. I will google to see if they have a wwwwwww site an onlineoffline shop. I will hemail it to you if they have. Lesley may also know of it

:-D



Teresa

Gentlemen callers at 9pm wearing what you are showing orf Petunia, I am shocked dear...... You are, if I may say so, looking a little saucy, dear. Either that or you have lost the 'tie' off your garment?. Looks to me like a robe :-D, but I was sure you would not entertain gentlemen wearing just a robe :-S....... You weren't hoping for a quick game of 'strip jack naked' were you :-D?...

CC, stop casting nasturtiams about me ;-)..

~~~ to Teresa, I am sorry not to know the places you are alluding too :-(.. I bet you are looking forward to your fruits return :-). I am following the son and girlfriend( of a very very dear friend) via photographs on f...bo.k... I am constantly amazed by the photographs and feel very priviliged to peruse 'their' photographic travel diary. I am sure your fruit will have many a tale to tell - lucky young things out there 'doing it'... I had reason to 'check' an age block on a survey... I did not like , one little bit the block I had to 'check'... In my mind I am still young and carefree :-D. Long may that last I say. :-).

Are you all basking in glorious sunshine yet or is it a tad too early?. Apparently outside today was very warm. I wouldn't know, I was stuck at my desk with the heater on :-P..

Best get on and cook our dinner.. Have a lovely day ladies.

~~~~ to Lesley.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~Back to Susan

Ooh Teresa punting on the Cam what a good idea for a gals day out :-)

Spices that can be bought near to us :-S do you mean from the expensive food hall in the village next to mine?

I was once recommended to me to buy my spices and silk at Queens market in Upton Park ................................... it's long way to go though if you run out of something :-D you can get a fantastic henna tattoo done there too ................... ............ that's if you want a henna tattoo ;-)

Goooood evening dear ladies.

Teresa dear, punting down the River. I hope you had a cornetto in one hand dear. If you screw your eyes up, and squint a bit, and go under the bridge, you could almost imagine you were in Italy dear. No? No, I couldnt either, but I have visited said town, and I must book myself a tour in the other college town, and see where Morse did what he did when he done it!

Lesley dear, I do hope you had a lovely time. Please make it known you were displeased with the box of air you received. Suggest a pressie could be put on the box next time. Incidentally one knows of a young girl who had a henna tattoo dear, much to her Mama's disgust. She then tired of it after a few days, and proceeded to use damp salt on her arm, to rub the tattoo away. She was left with stripping the top layer of skin away. She is very lucky not to have a permanent scar! Children eh? Tutty tut.

Susan dear, we are having slightly sunnier days here, but it is still nippy first thing in the morning. When I take my morning perambule, I still have to wear a scarf and gloves. I must look after my hands dear, now that the skin is getting a bit thin. I have been told lard is a good emollient, but I have yet to try it.

Cherry dear, I am sorry I have been absent from home of late. As you know the Major and I are getting on famously, and he is such a gent. We have just had afternoon tea at the Ritz. Dear little sandwiches, pretty cakes and tea made with proper tea leaves. We then strolled through the Burlington Arcade, and he bought me a silk scarf.

Do you know dears................I think I have a gentleman follower.

All aflutter
Auntie Petunia

*runs into drawing room all a-tither*
ITS A MIRACLE!! ITS A MIRACLE!! A pothole has been filled in !!! just the one, but it's a start ..... ;-)

ah we have company again, good afternoon ladies and readers and I hope you are all keeping well, you are all looking very well. As always Petunia you are the epitome of well dressed graciousness and good taste. Such a shame the bandage on your leg spoils the overall effect. oh well ! The silk scarf is exquisite. Hmmmm .... made in Taiwan. I am glad to hear the Major is proving such an amiable companion, which major is that? I have lost track of your many admirers. Major Holdup? Major Stare? Major Catastrophe? Major Roadahead?

No I cannot say I have noticed the distance between one door and another in the corridor. You see, your hallways and your staircases keep moving around, especially in the West Wing. I climb the stairs thinking I am headed in the direction of the library but find myself suddenly in the basement, listening to an Unseen orang utang crying "ook ook".

Teresa thank you so much for the golden binbags and the loan of the tiaiaiaraaraaboomdeehay. I can promise you I will look an absolute picture when I am done :-D I see you have been eating radishes and cucumber as well. I hope you chewed slowly dear.

Susan it is spring here in Blighty and what else would I do at this time of year but cast nasturtiums around? If you kept moving, dear, the seeds wouldnt hit you. :-D

~~~ to Lesley I hope the baby is still doing well :-)


Well I have been to the GP and done the Ortho referral, and the paperwork will be sent through soonest. I expect to get a letter within two months telling me I am on the waiting list to be added to the waiting list!!

Never mind Oxford, I went to Cambridge, many years ago .......

One Sunday afternoon ..... !!!

Good afternoon Ladies, and the silent majority who peek, but do not speak!!!

I am hurt that you are casting nasturiums in the Majors direction dear Cherry, you really are flinging the potted plants in all directions.

Ah the Major dear. Major James St John Mainwaring to give him his full name. He is a little older than I. Just a few months. He was a Major in the Hussars dears. He has shown me a photograph of himself when he was Trooping the Colour. I must say he was very dashing and good looking. He is now in his prime and looks a little like Richard Todd. He is grey and distinguished and has a little tash like Errol Flynn. He is a true gentleman and wipes his tash when he has had soup.

He is a widower, they were married for 50-odd years, she died a few years back, she had heart problems. They have three fine strapping sons, who are also in the military. Two in turn have their own familes, the third is a confirmed batchelor and the military is his life. He is a committed soldier, and has served in many countries. He has a perchant for collecting hats from wherever he serves, and his favourite is a fez. James has 6 grandchildren, and sees them whenever he can.

That is all I can tell you so far dears. All in all, he seems very normal. And he is not stingey. I do so hate a man who counts his change into a purse! Its so Norris.

Well Cherry dear, I do hope you are put on your list soonest, and then you will have the warmer weather to recuperate.

Hello to dear Teresa, Lesley and Susan when they pop in.

Forgive me dears, I am orft to the Globe tonight, we are to see that nice Roger Allam strutting his stuff as Prospero.

Buttoning my gloves and showing a clean pair of heels.......................
Auntie Petunia

oooh a St John, i say Auntie, I do hope you have an entertaining evening. FTY went on a School trip to the Globe. Im sure you will find it more stimulating than he did.


~~~~~~~~~to Susan Cherry and Lesley.

Lesley the spce shop is just in the next County only a spit and a jump from here. I will hemail the place to you for I fear we are not allowed to advertise.

OH is shouting at the TV. Its the local elections tomorrow and he is getting a little cross. I will administer tea


Tootling orff for now



Teresa ;-)

~~~~~ to everyone, what a lovely day its been today, not too hot, not too cold.

my word Petunia dear, one of the Sinjun Mannerings. Fancy that. Will he be moving into Motie Towers any time soon? There is plenty of room, after all. I will soon train him to take his pipes and ceeegars outside and smoke in the Folly, away from the house. A generous burst of lavender room spray every five minutes will deter even the most thick-skinned smoker.

Heart problems you say. Does the Major have a penchant for growing Foxgloves? At least it sounds as though he wont expect you to eat the mushrooms.

I have a horsepiddle appt in the morning, for a routine check up of my left hip, and will mention then that the GP has just completed an Ortho Referral for my right hip to be done at the same horsepiddle. I dont suppose it will speed my way up the waiting list tho. I dont expect to get an operation date much before the end of this year, as the waiting lists are very long.