General Chat

well I really enjoyed George Gently last night, and hoped he isnt going to "do a Morse". Also nice to see Kevin Whately getting another outing, and not the first time he's been a naughty boy. Some years ago there was a murder series (Murder In Mind?) where he played a man who'd had enough of the neighbours and ..... I wont tell you what Whatelys character did to get said neighbours out of his hair; but it was very very bad; and he also worked it out so he wouldnt be at home when "it" happened.

There was another series with a similar title .. Touch Of Murder? so I am probably getting muddled over which series had which title. I wonder why we humans are so obsessed with a good whodunnit. The Sweeney (the movie) was on Friday night as well, guns blazing away and bodies all over the place.

CC

Ou are welcome Lesley :-D. The bottom bunk is quite cosy and warm :-D

Auntie is Patty with you dear, I havnt seen her since yesterday and getting a little concerned :-(

Yours orff to poke FTE with a sharp stick for she is getting on my nerves and having a packing crisis for the forthcoming work jaunt :-|


Teresa

Hello Ladies.

Today is the first day in a week I have felt I am back to my not so young self :-) Thank you Teresa a couple more days rest on your bottom bunk bed should do the trick..........I say bottom bunk as I'm not sure I could climb one of those little ladders to the top ;-)

Auntie Petunia the last I read about your rocks sorry I meant pebbles they had been glued into the stone work in the walled in the garden :-( if you are able to locate them may I suggest a little acetone will possibly help dissolve the glue.

You can take your ear plugs out now CC :-) the awful sound coming from the piano has ceased :-| the only noise coming from Motie Towers now is the sound of a baby doing what babies do :-) tomorrow I am hoping to be hearing the same sounds :-D

I hope the sun is shining on you today Susan :-)

Good morning All.

Oh what a night, I forgot how much noise a baby makes, just existing! Crying, burping and windy-popping! I know George and Francine were trying to be quiet, but pacing up and down singing................well it was not quiet!!

The ship must have had marvellous sound proofing, but this rattly old house, it picks up every noise.

Yes Cherry dear, I was surprised at the musical entertainment too. I know she said she would play something oriental. I envisaged something from Gilbert and Sullivan, but Chopsticks!!! I ask you!!!!

I shall be pleased when all the trinklets are divided, and George has driven the ladies home, I feel then I can relax. And we can get to the bottom of this new blonde bombshell we have as the new housekeepers' help.

There is something familiar about her, but cannot put my finger on exactly what it is............

Thank you for the lamp Teresa dear, Habitat? Not Heals?

Off for a stroll around the garden, to see if I can hunt down these pebbles.............

Armed with a mafnifying glass
Auntie Petunia

Cherrrrrry,here comes the lamp down the cyber hatch, use it as you will dear, it might be usefull. No I have no idea where Patty is, I've not seen her for a while, do you think she is back at the Towers with her new look. It's quaite a change from her old one. Dr Plastarky and Mr Sorbet have done a wonderful job ;-)


Teresa :-D

*thinks*
all that way to Southampton in the tuktuk - and what happens? George has arranged for the car to be at Southampton so he can drive everyone back to Motie Towers.
I wonder how much weight I sweated off ....... there and back.
Acos the bloomin' tuktuk did not fit on the roof rack.

Now I am sitting here in the dining room, listening to Beatrice playing Chopsticks on the piano for the 100th time. Petunia has put the standard lamp on, with a 100W bulb in it, and pointed the lamp at me. And I am being grilled about diamonds. What diamonds. I only saw some dirty old pebbles fall through the cyber hatch and they hit me on the head, and those are the pebbles I glued down in the new stonery in the Walled Garden.

Ooooh Chopsticks again ..... this is pure torture, so it is.

CC

Breezes through the door of Motie Towers, and scans the place for derelection of duty.

How nice it is to be home again, it is lovely to travel but lovely to be home.

Can I smell something cooking, I blooming well hope so! Yes, come in all, I am sure that Cherry will point out your rooms to you, well, saying that, you have been here so many times, I doubt very much if you need a guide. No leave that George, we do not want the suitcases yet, they can be left here in the hall.

Yes, Octavia dear, I did send all the gift and trinklets down the cyber hatch, so they should be upstairs waiting for us to distribute. No Georgianna, I still cannot seems to get a proper answer to my question about the diamonds, maybe if we corner Cherry dear, she will crack!

Now come on in, Beatrice dear. You have not been here before have you? All the bedrooms are upstairs, but come on into the Parlour, there is a handsome piano there, and I know how fond you are of music. Come and tickle the ivories to see if the tone suits you dear, maybe later on you can play us something. Really? Can you really play that? Gosh, I am impressed.

Take dear little Valentine upstairs Francine, I am sure he is very tired after our journey.

How kind of Cherry dear, to come and meet us at the harbour. and to cycle all that way on the tuk tuk. I am really impressed, especially she did not bring Pat-trish-aaaah with here.

Now, come to think of it, we can not seen Pat-trish-aaaah at all yet. She must be around here somewhere. Teresa promised faithfully to send her home. Tuttty tut.

Ahh Mrs Berry, how lovely to see you. I have brought things home for you and your darling children. I shall sort them out soonest, what time did you say dinner was? Ready when we are...............how kind. About 7.30? Fine, thank you so much. We should be done by the start of Downtown.

Aaaah Cherry dear, come and dine with us, we have soooo much to tell you, and I believe you have something to tell us too. Ssssshhhhh. Georgianna, I am speaking now dear, not you, button it!

No, no Cherry dear, lets go into the Dining Room, and we can chat over the steak and kiddley.

Now, lets all go in together......................

Looks around the parlour and dining room..............who is that strange creature trying to hide herself behind the velvet curtains........................please, dont tell me...............oh dear!

Very disappointed, but still ravenous!
Auntie Petunia

Hallo Lesley, I'm sure we could find a little space for you, not at my place of toil but in a few weeks time when FTE departs for the seven seas we will have a spare bunk here :-D! FTY has bagged FTEs room for the duration of her jaunt. More room for the devils x box in there :-(


I will be brief Ladies for Patty is causing some concern. She has pleaded with FTEs mate who is a trainee hair dresser to practice on her hair. She wanted a blond look but has ended up as a greenish colour :-S. Worse still she appears to have the same problem with some overhang like Susan and its not in the garden :-S :-S :-S :-S
I do think a vist to Dr Plastarky is in order. Patty said her young rich Jockey was willing to stump up the fees for a visit :-D he also offered to pay for a visit to Mr Sorbet to get her hair sorted.

Must rush, the sausage casserole is awaiting to be dished up.

Hope Auntie manages to get orfff ok Cherry, please don't let their be any waifs and
strays dragging along with her ;-)



Teresa

Good Afternoon Ladies

Dear Auntie Petunia when I think of myself spring and chicken are not two words that are in the for of my mind anymore :-( and although my mind does still tell me I can gallivant the body doesn't agree :-S

Well I'm certainly back CC :-) not sure I would say I've ever been normal though :-D

Susan you do seem to have had your fair share of rain :-( ...... was your OH wet pruning successful :-)

Teresa I was told the radio programme of the concert was pretty good :-) not that I heard it..........have you got a spare bed at your place of toil I just need one for a couple of day's so as recuperate, promise I wont be any trouble :-D

Well here I am at Southampton. I can see a huge ship on the horizon. I wonder if its the Canitti. There is a lot of noise filtering back across the sea - sounds of cannons firing and people making much merriment if all the hollering is anything to go by.

Oh oh - there are also a dozen River Thames Police boats on the water, and the Coastguard, and it looks like they are all headed out to the ship.

You dont suppose ....... no, it cannot be because of Petunia and her cohorts, surely even they could not create *that* much trouble on board a ship??

*wondering*
CC

Hi Susan, I think the difference between mixie, and cjd, is that humans supposedly cant catch mixie. But for all we know, those compressed food pellets that cattle were fed with shortly before cjd started contained rabbit with mixie. I vaguely recall some claims the pellets contained scrapie. Its supposed to be these compressed pellets that triggered it all, isnt it? I remember that when the government of the day said that British beef was safe to eat, I stopped buying it.

Patty didnt return to Teresa's home last night. Heaven alone knows what tent she spent the night in. My cat is missing again, too.

I'm with your OH - I dont care for the masses either, and prefer quiet holiday locations. My fear of crowds goes back to when I was a gel aged about 10 and Papa had taken us to Ridley Road market, he was holding my little sisters hand leaving me to keep up with him. Alas, a group of people pushed their way in between Papa and me, and I couldnt get around them to catch up. I got very panicky. Luckily, Papa stopped and turned around to see I was not hot on his heels, and waited for me.

The trouble with cruises is that you cannot just get off if the toilets stop working or something goes wrong with the catering.

Very dull here today, as if rain might be coming. There will be no complaints from me, as it will save me having to drag around with the hosepipe.

You mention your OH pruning the overhang from the neighbours. We have a problem similar to this, and on a dark night with no moon MFH has sneaked down the end of the garden and poured weedkiller over the fence. I think I shall tell him it needs doing again.

CC

I dont know why but I sometimes feel I am wandering down a yellow brick road. I swear it is not the mushrooms. Or the toadstools.

Good to see you again Lesley, and I am glad your weekend, and your reunion, went so swimmingly. When do you reckon you will be back in the old routine, and how is your granddaughter?

Whatever you do, dont go cruising on the Good Ship Canitti. I hear the crew are mopping their brows and wondering how to restore their hair, following the exploits of four of the lady passengers. They got up to everything except lock themselves in the lavatory.

Which reminds me. Petunia bloooberried to say they would be docking today so I had better get my skates on and run down to Southampton to meet and greet. Why wearing fish on my feet is supposed to speed me up, I havent yet worked out.

CC

Good morning All dear Ladies.

We are nearing home as I speak, we are just in the English Channel. But of course we will have a Farewell Party before we disembark.

Dear Lesley, you have had a spiffing time by all accounts. Of course you are a lot younger than I, so you possibly can gallivant about. But how lovely to have people to stay. You are a true member of us all now. You have passed the initiation test.

Susan dear, CDWM is a weird and wonderful programme. It is like a car crash you just HAVE to watch. I too saw an episode where some dear lady had everything tickety boo in her wardrobe and someone thought it very funny to transpose everything! A little over the top I thought.

Hello Cherry and Teresa dear, I hope that Pat-trish-aaaah will be back home by the time I arrive. I shall have words with her myself. And she will have a flea in her ear.................

Oooooh lovely, we will be fed and watered by the time dear Downtown Abbey begins. How I do love Dame Maggie, I think we have sooooo much in common.

Toodle Pip
Auntie Petunia

CC, the one thing I detest about the show, is the poking about the host's cupboards.. One segment I watched, a very loud and bumptious woman, messed up the very tidy inside of a very particular mans wardrobe... CDWM doesn't mean come snoop around the insides of me drawers :-D. One show I watched recently, a nosy woman literally 'broke' another womans set of drawers...
That said, I still enjoy the 'fireworks'.

If my subconscience remembers any guilty secrets, I may or may not let you know :-D... ** wondering to myself what the 'eck I may have been up too. **

Mexie Petunia, I took to mean a little mixymitosis ?? Perhaps not?
Akin to eating beef with cjd :-S...

Oh Teresa, please send us a photo of Patty... I could do with a laugh. I had a vision - and nearly passed out :-S. hehe

Hello Lesley, hope you are feeling a little refreshed - or a lot refreshed after your busy week. If you go cruising,keep an eye out for Teresa's FTE :-). I was talking to a friend through the week, he and his wife have done several cruises and loved them. I cannot get my OH at all interested, he prefers to holiday without the masses. Though I would think even on a huge boat, one could find some quiet space?

Having said that, OH and I have cruised on a small boat around a Pacific Island, one evening we had to dress up, one crew member swapped his uniform for another passengers skirt and top, boy o boy, the crew member was one happy little bunny indeed ;-). Definitley on the other 'bus'. A good time was had by all.

It is pouring down today :-(, though I did manage to mow the lawn yesterday before the heavens opened. I am over the Spring weather, give me Summer !!

OH is adamant he is going to don his wet weather gear and do a bit of trimming of a particular climbing plant that is coming from over the neighbours fence. The neighbours are away presently ;-).


Toodle pip

Susan

Hello Ladies

Here I am :-) calmly walking in mopping my brow with my lace edged handkerchief........ my feet have hardly touched the ground since last Saturday.

After a spectacular concert and weekend in London :-D I arrived home Monday exhausted to be greeted my dear cousin :-) that lives near Avignon and whom I hadn't seen for six years, exhaustion forgotten :-) the next four days were taken over with lots of chatting, shopping, sightseeing and laughter :-D

The exhaustion has now returned hitting me like a ton of bricks :-(

Dear Auntie Petunia I think I need a relaxing cruise so as to recover :-) could you recommend one please :-S

In the words of Arnie I will be back ;-)

The dancing was very good ladies, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Dont worry Cherry dear, I know all the ins and outs of cricket. I used to keep score for the Highgate XI. I was very good at sitting in the score hut, taking all their particulars down.

I am a little perturbed about the news of Pat-trish-aaaaah Teresa dear. From what I have seen of TOWIE, I am not impressed. Please dont say Patsy [I choked over that!] will come home, erm, upholstered?

I may even echo dear Judy here, dears, There Is No Place Like Home!!!!!

Humming Over The Rainbow
Auntie Petunia

A thought for the weekend :

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. ”
(Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld).

Oh Teresa dont let Patty anywhere near Newmarket, and those jockeys, or she will be demanding silk pyjamas next. What will Petunia say? But I do know where there is a miniature horse, and foal.

Can you keep a secret?

So can I. :-D :-D

CC

As I explained to dear Petunia, the young male officer who squired her at the dancing wasnt talking about public transport, he meant that he bats for the other side. She immediately demanded an explanation into the rules of cricket. This is a game I have never played but I did my best to satisfy her curiosity.

I told Petunia that there are two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When both sides have been in and out including the not outs - that's the end of the game.

Unfortunately dear Petunia couldnt make head nor tail of that, so I tried another tack, telling her that two old men in white coats walk together to the middle of a large green field, each carrying three long sticks and two little ones. Each man plants his three sticks in the ground, 22 inches apart, and puts the little sticks on top. They then turn around and look at 22 younger men waiting at the edge of the field - and it starts to rain. HOWZAT !!

CC

*settles into chair, feeling exhausted and disgruntled*
Am utterly pooped and my feet are two slabs of burning agony, due to doing the work I pay gardeners to do ..... MFH decided to cut the cotoneaster today, as the work was well overdue. I made a start while he was collecting his car from its MOT. That done, I turned my attention to some other bits of trimming while MFH washed the cars and watered the frontyard beds, and I discovered that the last pair of gardeners I'd hired had not picked up everything they were clipping where they were working around the holly and the lilac, they had let much of it fall down into the shrubbery although I'd told them at the outset not to leave anything for me to pick up because I wasnt able to do it. I now reckon they only started doing a "proper job" after I wandered into the backyard to hold the sacks for them, because while I was out there they were working very well.

So, today I had to stand there and pick up all these clippings. Not so pleased with them now, although they gave the holly a lovely trim and shape. Oh well, that job is sorted now, even if my feet hurt more than my hips do.

Who wants to massage my feet ?????????
CC