General Chat

Hello Ladies.

I am sorry to hear you had such a terrible night Auntie Petunia :-( I do hope relaxing on your chaise longue and maybe getting 40 winks has made you feel better :-)

CC when I was out driving on Saturday the roads were so quiet :-) it got me thinking as to whether people were staying at home because the weather was so grey and misty or whether everyone was starting their seasonal shopping:-S wish I new what to get everyone then mine would be done and dusted too :-D

Good morning ladies, I saw most of the night!!!

It has been dark and foggy here.

That will teach me to eat such a full meal last thing at night.

I have had indigestion and heartburn. I took some of those tablets advertised on the television. You know the ones, with the little firemen putting out the fire.

I shall recline on the chaise longue today I think. That will teach me to scoff so much!!!!

Mind you, a naice cup of tea would not come amiss.

Pat-trish-aaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!

Auntie Petunia

A thick slice of Aberdeen Angus dear. I do so like a hot meal in the evening. I always think cold meat should be served with a salad. And it is far too cold for a salad!

Pat-trish-aaaaah has far excelled herself. Did you help too Cherry dear? The Yorkshirfes are as light as a feather. Did you give it an extra whisk? My congratulations dear. You have both done very well.

Now, a dollop of trifle will just set that off a treat.

Thank you dear, come and join me.

Night night all
Auntie Petunia

**chokes and splutters on hearing dear Petunia's comment about a nice piece of hot meat .........."" Would that be meat and two veg dear?

Lesley so many people leave things until the very last minute, whereas I go for Forward Planning. Actually, I hate seeing Christmas things on sale from September onwards, I think that November is quite early enough to buy Christmas food and decorations. But when it comes to wrapping gifts and writing out cards ..... I usually make a start in November but for personal reasons decided to get it all out of the way yesterday. Each year, I buy the Christmas cards in the January sales, which enables me to buy some really classy cards (Mother, Sister, Daughter Nephew Niece etc) and a boxed set of pretty cards (for everyone else) for a fraction of the usual price. And the shops are still making a profit on the sale price .....

CC

Dear Ladies,

Here I am, back again. I am pleased that you took some comfort from the graves dear Lesley. We are the link from the past to the future, we are important in ourselves, and yet a small speck in the wider sphere of things.

I have been at the Village today. They have declared that the cable car is a Tourist Attraction, so be it. It is jolly expensive though, and it takes a long time to cross the Thames. So in answer to Cherry dear, does the Eye blink. It closes its eye overnight.

I can see it from my top back bedroom, and it definitely goes off at night. It is still a beautiful Royal Blue up until 1am, but it is turned off later.

I am to have dinner soon dears, a proper roast dinner made with Pat-trish-aaaah's own fair hands, after she has stopped rolling in the leaves, and she has bathed.

I do so like a nice piece of hot meat inside of me with all the trimmings. Even better when it is dripping in gravy....................aaaaah Gravy browning!!!!!!!

Aaaah, the gong is going.

Off to nosh
Auntie Petunia

A Relaxing Good Afternoon Ladies.

Here I am lying on my chaise longue (settee) in front of a log fire and not a care in the world...........ah bliss :-) I am watching on the TV the world championship triathlon coming from a very wet Auckland New Zealand ~~~~~~~~~~to Susan in case you are there :-D

Only guessing at what you were up to yesterday CC I don't think it's to early...............ducks...........shall I build a barricade to protect us from flying objects :-D

Auntie Petunia it was very serene in both churchyards I visited yesterday I didn't see another person :-( I get a lot of comfort from going to the grave of my family :-) we always have a little chat..........well at least I do :-D

good afternoon all, I wont tell you what I got up to yesterday or you will be throwing bricks and bats at me...... strictly speaking, it is too early for what I did, but I didnt dare leave things until "the last minute", as I have too much to do all the time as it is, and not enough hours in the day in which to do it ....... Perhaps if I gave up sleeping, eating and watching a bit of TV in the evenings ..... well, I need something to fall asleep over.

Hello Lesley, you are to be commended driving that distance to tend family graves. I observed, some years ago, that we all need this ritual of mourning because its all that we have left. As dear Petunia says, so succintly, they are our past and we are their future, so its only right we remember them.

Ah yes, Petunia dear, I have heard some of the comments passed about your Good Works. You certainly blaze a trail that leaves a light in many an eye, and I heard it took five days for Mrs Peabody to calm down. The Reverend Bluejeans was beside himself. That must be why I always thought he was twins.

You really must have a word with Pat rish aaaah. She has been rolling in the leaves again and it does nothing for her complexion or her hair do. But the Ark is coming along nicely. Tricki Woo is so portly, he could enter the Ark doing a Two By Two all by himself.

A quick question - does the London Eye ever blink?

CC

Good morning ladies, a rather grey one at that.

The rain finally said goodbye in the early hours, but tis still wet on the ground. Ark coming along a treat.

I said that I would pootle along to the Olympic Village today, just to see what was going on with the dismantling etc. All the fixtures and fittings up on a popular website, so all leaving at a great rate.

That is of course after church, where my flowers will be on show. Beautiful even though I say so myself.

Lesley, the graves of our loved ones are always special. I too visit them, more regularly in the summer I must admit, but always just before Christmas. The snow on the ground lends a serene feel to the great Victorian necropolis. Our loved ones are our history, we are their future. So sad.

Well, just orft. May be back a little later on.

Pip Pip
Auntie Petunia

Good Evening

Raining in London oh dear in my part of Essex we haven't had rain all day:-)

So much for my restful day I was home alone today :-( as it's that time of year again when my MOG partakes in his country pursuits I wont elaborate on this as I understand it is not in favour with everyone :-( I diverse :-S rather than rest I drove the 20 miles south and tended four family graves two and a half hours later in desperate need of a cup of Rosie Lee I faced the return journey home now I ask myself why did I not have a relaxing day at home pampering and pandering to me :-|

Good afternoon dears.

Lesley, we understand that you have demands on your time dear. As ladies of leisure, we can come and go as we please.................if it was not for all the good works I have undertaken, I would be at my wits end.

So many people remark on my input. The Church Flowers, the WI, St Jumbos, The Sisters of Much Binding in the Marsh, The Bridge Club, The Old Soldiers and Sailors Mission, that is not withstanding the organising I do here at Motie Towers. If I did not crack the whip, the place would fall into wrack and ruin.

This rain does not seem to let up, thank goodness we have Pat-trish-aaaah valiantly building the Ark in the back garden. I will get the gardener to build a trellis, removeable of course, in front of it, so it will not become an eye-sore, should the flood not arrive. As you know our part of North London is on the Hill, so should the Thames burst its banks, it still would not get this far.

Cherry dear, I feel suitablely chastised about Juana. Yes, I understand your argument that she is Latino and that she wears her heart on her sleeve, but she is also a very silly girl. Patrick, as you know, I did not see for many, many years, but still he was my one true love, I find that I can forgive him most things. I still have his likeness on my bedside cabinet, along with the cameo brooch...................aaaah, memories, memories. No Cherry, that is not an excuse to play Cats by Sir Andrew and Sir Tim.

I think I shall let her sweat a little longer, until she decides whether to enter the closed Order, or decides that it is not for her, and issues a grovelling apology, with the promise of never, ever, behaving like a trollop again. I think I make myself plain.

I have been furniture hunting today dears, I have seen a wonderful Chippendale trestle that has my name on it. I do so love a good barter, if all else fails, a quick biff on the boko usually knocks some sense into them!

Pip Pip
Auntie Petunia

an early good morning, dear ladies. Yesterday I ventured out in the rain to fetch some fresh tomatoes from the greenhouse for dear Mrs Berry, for one of her recipes, and I slipped into a drain gulley and have been swimming all over the place trying to get back to Motie Towers. Just look at me - my rats tails are full of hair :-D

Did you miss me Petunia dear? The Towers must have been very quiet without me around. I will sort out the recycling as soon as I am dried and respekkable again.

So - Juana has returned eh? You are a tad hard hearted perhaps, because you know deep down that Patrick was a feckless bounder. If it had not been Juana, it would have been another female. Of course she should have said No to him, but she is a Spanish gel and they are noted for their warm hearts and fiery dispositions.

I have not forgotten that Juana tried to worm her way back in a few weeks ago, so where has she been hiding (or living) between walking back from Gretna Green and turning up at St Jumbos. Did she tell Fr Thadius that? Or did she go to St Jumbos after you turned her away?

Must comment - your study isnt brown. I should know, I spend enough time dusting and polishing in there every day.
*thinks* and I still havent found the key to the secret filing cabinet

CC
*wondering if the rain has stopped yet .....

Dear Ladies

Apologies for my absence :-( I have no excuse apart from I do tend to over do things at times leaving myself very tiered :-( then the old grey matter doesn't work :-S hopefully my weekend will be restful :-) so I can catch up.

~~~~~~~~~~~~To all
Lesley

Good evening gels.

I relented! I went to St Jumbos. I made an appointment to see Father Thadius at 10am, and duly went down in the tuk-tuk, with Pat-trish-aaaah at the helm. I did not dare to tell her why we were going there, and whilst I was inside, she went to have a nose around the shops, but that is another tale..............

Father Thadius was sitting in his office when I arrived, and explained how Juana had turned up one night, wet, cold and very dirty.

You will recall that she ran away with Patrick [my own true love] and they ended up at Gretna Green. I think you know that Patrick passed away, and Juana did a runner.

Apparently she had WALKED all the way back from Gretna Green. Walking by day, skivvying to make ends meet by day, and sleeping under bridges and in ditches by night. Father T. explained that she was in a very bad way when she turned up at their front-door and was suffering from all sorts of nasty ailments.

So...................what could I do? I indicated that I would be willing to meet her. And so I did. She did not look like the plump, vivacious trollop I last saw in Scotland. Indeed she was scrawny and the light had gone out of her eyes.....

But I am sorry, I cannot forgive her. I will pay for her keep by way of a donation to Father Thadius, but I will not have her in my house again.

I must say she does seem keen to join the Order, so we will see what we will see when she is well again.

I am sitting here in a real quandry. Dear ladies, what should I do? Your comments would be appreciated.

By the by, Cherry has been very quiet today, I wonder if she is in?

Sitting in a brown study
Auntie Petunia

Ah Cherry!!!!!! Can you please turn down the 1812 just a tad dear? Thank you, I can hardly hear myself think!

As much as I like your recordings dear, I think I favour Nimrod played by the Berlin Philharmonic, it has a bit more ooooomph dear. I can hear the triangle even!

Yes, I received another phone call today, again from Father Thadius about That Woman! No time has not healed anything dears. She is a pariah as far as I am concerned. It will take a long time, and hell will freeze over before she steps over this threshold I am afraid.

Father T said that she has confessed all, and is taking on menial tasks around the place, and regularly scrubs out the Refectory. Once a week there is a high Mass and the Nuns come over from the Nunnery along the road. There is talk of Juana joining their order. Is it the Order of The Scarlet Trollops I wonder to myself!

I know I sound bitter dears, but for that flibberdigibit I could have been married and living the life of a refine woman of taste with an 18ct ring on her fingers. Instead I am a woman of refined taste without the 18ct ring on my finger. Tutty tut.

I shall mull the situation over dears, but I think it is unlikely to change in the near future. Blood or no blood!

I am going to watch a programme tonight where people have themselves 'Inked'. Some gentleman has the picture and song lyrics of a young gel called Smiley Wireless all over his body. It could be interesting.

Pip Pip
Auntie Petunia

Good afternoon one and all. Ah the wretched PPI. I get those texts, too, Petunia dear. One's first husband also gets them, and I was most discomposed to learn he has been offered in excess of £2,000. My alleged PPI refunds were not worth anywhere near that. What larks eh? because we were never mis sold loans with this "protection" in the first place.

So Juana has wandered into St Jumbos? I wonder if she met the inmate wot does elephant impressions ....... I suppose the gel is missing her Mama and GrandMama. Is blood thicker than water yet? Petunia dear?

BTW, does anyone know what the difference is between a Philharmonic orchestra and a Symphonic orchestra? They all sound the same to me, whether or not I am wearing my hearing aids, and irrespective of how high the volume is.

CC
*rockin' the rafters, yeah man

Good morning dears, no so nice again. Quite dark and miserable.

I have no idea why or whose those tablets are dear Cherry. I do not keep tablets in the medicine cabinet. As you know I am a fan of herbal remedies, and keep and arrangement of small bottles with droppers on the beside cabinet. Poiret would have a field-day!!!

They are probably Pat-trish-aaaah's. I leave it to her to sort out her own medical needs. Just as long as we have a basic first aid box and a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, I am content.

As you know I am a whizz with the Blooooooberry. I too keep getting text offering to collect PPI on my behalf. Wonderful. Even more so if I can had a loan, and paid it!!! They must be getting me mixed up with someone else.

Ah dear Cherry, what exactly did Father Thadius at St Jumbos want? I cannot be traipsing all the way over there on a fools errand? You have written it down? Fine tickety boo! I will look for it.

Ah there it is.......................................We have found a vagrant asking for you, answers to the name of Juana!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sits down with a thump, and reaches for smelling salts.
Auntie Petunia

one is truly amazed. One's first husband has forwarded to one an email, from the Cooperative Bank, telling us that there is a problem with our bank account and we have 24 hours to click on a link and confirm our details and if we dont do this our account will be suspended.

He leaves all the banking up to me, the lazy ***, which is why he sent me the email to deal with the matter.

I am most reassured that the Cooperative Bank are so diligent in these matters and will look after our banking affairs and protect us from fraud. Particularly as ..... we have never ever had an account with them. :-D :-D :-D

CC

~~~~~~~~~~~~ to Teresa, and to Lesley when she is able to put the baby down and join us :-)

I phoned my doctors surgery, to ask about my tetanus booster which was due last month. I was told its now only offered as a Triple - tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough, all in one. I only want the tetanus booster and said so - and I was told to go private. I am lost for words.

Ah Petunia dear, there you are. I wondered where you had gotten to. What good works have you been up to today? I took a telephone message for you from the Good Father of St Jumbos. It was a trunk call.

I must say, I was quite embarrassed for Pat rish aaaaaaah. Fancy displaying so much cleavage in an autumnal garden. I must say, her biceps are coming along nicely with all that chopping and logging. She is beginning to look like an All In Wrestler. We have quite a woodpile now, did you notice? Perhaps I should go and check, in case there are any confederate soldiers hiding in the woodpile ! Or rakes in the shrubbery !

I presume the young man with the tar brush, painting the ark, is called Noah .....

Next time Beatrice is visiting you to play cards, seat her with her back to the large brass-framed mirror, and watch her hand in the reflection. Not that I like to cast aspersions, but she is double dealing when she chases those Aces. And, she always has something up her sleevies, and it isnt her armies.

Well what a day I have had, in Motie Towers. The kitchen cupboards needed cleaning, so I got up on the stepladder and wiped all the tops of the cupboards and then wiped all the cupboard shelves and replaced the crockery and glassware and tupperware boxes. I also cleaned out the medicine cabinet and disposed of all the out-of-date bottles of pills. I am mystified, however, Petunia dear, at the number of boxes of Norithisterone therein. Why you have such tablets in your medicine cabinet, I cannot conceive.

Next week, I shall tackle the food larder. Mrs Berry tells me she is stocking up with groceries over the weekend.

I have really worked up an appetite. What's for dinner?

CC

Will one of the 125 make themselves known please?

Hello and goodbye dear Teresa, we shall see you soon. ~~~~~~~~~~

Lesley dear, how lovely to have a babby to cuddle. We are all jealous, unless of course she possets back her feed, then you can have her back!!!!!

Of course you were not drunk Cherry, not as drink as I funk I was! Let us just say that when we tried to get you into bed, you wanted to go 10 rounds with Sonny Liston. Tutty tut.

I got fleeced last night over the bridge game, I am sure there is something dodgy with those cards. I dont like the way Beatrice wears those funny glasses..............she does not normally wear specs, and they have a strange tint to them. Do you think we are being had?

Work is progressing well on the Ark. Our young man turned up with the pitch and a tarbrush. He duly changed into a regulation checked shirt, and began sloshing the blackstuff over the hulk of said Ark.

Do you know, I have never seen Pat-trish-aaaaah so eager to go out into the garden in the Autumn...............she was weeding, raking leaves, chopping logs.............anything just to get out and talk to the Tar Man. I must be honest he did look like a young Mr Newman, so I suppose I can see why she wanted to flirt so openly. But really, did she have to wear her slacks quite so tight, and her blouse with buttons undone? Honestly, that liberty bodice could have done with a light rinse through!

Trying to comb the brambles out of her hair
Auntie Petunia