As the weather has been a little kinder to us of late, the clocks are due to change tonight and the Dark Blues have won the Boat Race, perhaps there is some truth to the rumour that Spring is on its way.
However, the nights are still a little nippy, so gather round our cosy hearth for another Club Night.
Drinks and nibbles will no doubt appear shortly and we can only hope that our trusty Matron will again excel herself with a new tailcock recipe. (Last week's amazing creation, the 'Lunar surprise@ lingers firmly in the memories and possibly also the livers of the members who attended last week.)
The raffle cupboard seems to be bare, so presumably all items were won last week...is this a record ?
Here are my donations for this week's raffle:
A packet of cheese and onion crisps . (Hardly flattened at all.)
A small tin of Mint Balls. (No, not Uncle Joe's, they're for the raffle)
A Fair Isle pattern mitt. (Right hand .)
Good evening Milady, I have been very busy and the usual array of nibbles and tailcocks are all on the long hall dresser,my new concoction this week if the Census Comet## a most pleasing and all inclusive drink.
For the raffle I have knitted a dozen dishclothes.
Do you have anyone on hand, ladyalex, to count how many of mamya's census comets are drunk by a guest. I fear there may be a major liability issue here if a guest was to drink but one too many.
I am sure the poliz are there, waiting in the hedges of the high roads and by roads of our fine nation, ready to finger and enumerate the unsuspecting
Sorry, ladyalex, I must apologise for that contribution but I became really irritated yestereve by that interchange of remarks about the Generalist and the supposed reasons for the begging of answers to clues.
evening ma'am,i have brought a garden gnome
pkt of pretzels
some old bread to feed the ducks,for your raffle although i can never win.just going to sit by the inglenook and concentrate on my census comet.
Welcome to our club, DT etc etc....thank you for your wise counsel, but our members are all way beyond one too many ....we also have a....relationship...shall we say with all of our local emergency services.
Have had an incredibly spring-cleany sort of day and am in desperate need of a tailcock so thankyou for the offer.
During the rummaging associated with spring-cleaning I perchanced upon one of those windy-uppy gramophones and one (rather dusty) 78 rpm record! Would they be suitable for the raffle or maye we could have a stately perambulation of the great hall later (to music - albeit a trifle scratchy!)
Oh, thank you so much, sackville. That grammyfone will go nicely in the hall...we may even have some old records that will fit it.
Dancing later, anyone ?
Where's Alexanderd when we need him.
well then, ladyalex, my contribution to the raffle tonight,forlorn as it is, is one blue light lifted off a Devon & Cornwall BMW belonging to some copper called Chief Superintendent Otter. I am County Finance Officer implementing the £30 million of cuts that he asked for.
One lucky winner's benefit as he/she (ttfn?) will be able to pretend to be a senior boy in blue.