Greetings from Snowy Nungate Towers.
A warm welcome awaits any Mad Over Fifty who braves the elements this cold winter night. For your entertainment this evening we are finally able to have the Ice Skating Gala, postponed from last week, so it's everyone down to the frozen lake later this evening. For tonight's hot plate special we have that old favourite Potage Bonne Femme - yes we managed to find another good woman! In addition, we also have a heartwarming hot pot, and the usual offerings of volly vonts and horses doovers and on the pudding trolley is a clootie dumpling with lashings of lovely custard!
In addition to their usual samplings of madrigals and toccattas, the minstrels will be playing a selection of Alice Cooper's greatest hits, and a small chamber orchestra have secreted themselves in the garden pavilion to provide the music for the ice skating. Also on offer by the lake will be mulled wine and all manner of hot drinks. Tonight's tailcock the "Snowglobe flurry" will only be available within the Towers as it is a somewhat potent brew, and we do not wish any of our guests to be seeing pink penguins within the Towers' grounds.
For the rofl we have an interesting selection of snow shovels and gritting salt
The first cut is always the deepest Sib, I see Queenie has retired, no stamina! Must have been all the singing and plannig she and her junior assistant were doing today! Even planning a trip to the zoo when it warms up a bit - wonder if they are going to see the pandas?
Lovely poem DT, as always, the Bard's chair awaits your posterior
Tony, you wann see pandas? Come round tomorrow late mornig I'll show you a pair of panda eyes! Queenie never seems to manage to shift the mascara properly!
Seriously I'd like to go visit the pandas myself, haven't been to the zoo since I was in 3rd year at School, we were let into the Penguin enclosure that was great fun, I love penguins! I wonder if they still do the penguin parade............
Hi, Dave, made it at last! There's a bucket of the Snowglobe flurry with your name on it and a couple of hot running house parlourmaids to deliver it
We'll be holding the rofl soon.
Got my roffle tickets ready, hope you checked the nightdress and necklace that i brought for my donation, pretty sure the price ticket was still on the necklace. X