In her Ladyship's absence may I extend a warm welcome to friends old and new. We also have a sick note from the Butler, so if I may ask you help yourself to the buffet and copious amounts of drink at your will, I may also be a little distracted as I have guests in the Gamekeepers Lodge who are quite demanding.
This evening's menu is a tribute to a lovely ladies Birthday - I believe she has even been untagged for the occasion.
We have Hot Pot and pickled beetroot, sausage rolls (best venison) various salads, a milk stout blancmange....this week's tailcock is the Sharples, a seemingly spiky outside note with a soft and generous centre, a witty number really.
For the Rofl:
5 Newton and Ridley beermats
assorted coloured hairnets
3 lisle stockings
packet of dart flights
It's the fine white for me dt, with a Sobrianie cocktail. Scrub up a treat we do here
Now then (Bard), you were missed here, so *do not do that again* please.
Them sausage rolls is a fair treat Matron, still mooing too.
LJ, I think mi'lady has first dabs on the welding rods, it being a free, fair and open riffle and all. Given the rollover there may well be less of them next week.
Evening Mamya. Suppose blue is tonight's colour. Is the butler abroad or ensconced in front of one of those things for which you need a licence?
Never mind, still light, will send the broom to chat with the croc. Have warned Eric not to paddle.
For the ruffle I have a defrosted kipper, a serbo-croat dictionary and a half used tin of dubbin. Oh, and a mini fire extinguisher. Don't trust those torch people.
Greetings to all present. No butler tonight? Something connected with a certain football match mayhap? I have parked the llama in his usual place in the stables, he has been warned not to venture out to gamble with the croc or his cat - he lost his ear pompoms the last time he played and if he loses his new set I have told him he won't be having any more! A bucket of your wonderful tailcock would be most welcome Mama.
Has DT been misbehaving? - I appear not to have heard of his incarceration prior to this evening, I do hope the manacles did not chafe
on the rocks please, for me, not sloopy though, that's what got the Exxon Valdez skipper in trouble......."I said a Tanqueray on the Rocks not a Tanker."
Sorry, I had to step out and check the llama.
So glad to hear your term of incarceration wasn't too strenuous, (no hewing involved I see) I'm certain it afforded you the time for quiet reflection DT.
I totally agree with you Daisy, I could never watch Bambi again after one of Mama's delicious looking sausage rolls. My bucket appears empty, I must go get a refill