Mad Over Fifties Club

[nungate]

Here we are again, another meeting of the Mad Over Fifties Club! Welcome to Nungate Towers, one and all.
Tonight's Tailcock will be the "November Noggin" a lovely spicy brew - guaranteed "central heating" for this cold damp evening! On our menu tonight we have a rich hearty beef casserole with dumplings, as our hot plate special, on the pudding trolley we have plum duff and custard! Other treats for tonight are volly vonts, canopies and horses doovers!
Up in the gallery the Minstrels are currently playing pontoon but later on they will be regaling us with their usual selection of madrigals and fugues, down in the ballroom our favourite local band The Tone Deafs have joined with the Hotel Spendido Palm Court Orchestra to form a "supergroup" and they will be swinging along to the popular tunes from the "Swing" era! (pass me my bobby socks!) Meanwhile down in the Music room we have a special treat, the return of Flamenco Flo and her performing poodles!
Everybody dance now!!!
For the rofl tonight I have to offer:
set of broken lute strings (courtesy of the Minstrels)
1 cardboard box (empty but useful)
Spare set of chains (thank you Igor)

A warm welcome awaits all who enter these portals

carriages at midnight

[tonyav]

Errrrrrrr, fish and chips or steak and chips maybe, Daisy. but no gravy though !.

[nungate]

School dinners at my primary and secondary schools were actually quite good!

[DaisyNonna]

Oh, Igor! That reminds me. Will not be with you next week. Off to watch my granddaughter dancing at Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre. Would you like some rock Igor? Or is there something you would prefer?

[tonyav]

They most certainly wasn't at mine, nungate.

[tonyav]

Blimey, that sounds good, Daisy. Is it a show ?.

[Igor61]

I shall certainly miss you next week Madame Daisy, but I do hope you enjoy the dancing.
I'm hoping to be dancing myself soon in a few weeks when this cast comes off!

[DTCwordfan]

cold nights in Nungate Towers, a sock-shod
stove-warmed flatiron slid under Queenies
covers, mornings a damascene-
sealed bizarrerie of pirahna fernwork
decades ago now but still there


waking in northwest Berwick, tea
brought up steaming, a McPeak Frean
biscuit alongside to be nibbled
as blue gas leaps up singing
Noggins from November decades ago now


damp sheets in Tweed, Fifedom fog-hung
habitat of bronchitis, of long
hot soaks in the iron bathtub, of nothing
quite drying out till next Isle o' Bute summer:
delicious to think of, but AB delirium or delusion


Lady J hassocks pulled in close, Igor's toasting-
forks held to coal-glow, strong-minded
tony's goats and big eager black cats
muscling in on bookish profundities
now quite forgotten


the castle long fuelled, old friends
alive in ABland or lost track of, what's salvaged
is this vivid diminuendo, unfogged
by mere affect, the perishing residue
of pure AB tailcock sensation
What is it - ah the November Noggin,
the reason why. Hic.

[DaisyNonna]

Remember keeping some greaseproof paper in my school blazer pocket to hide the evidence of what I could not eat.
Absolutely loved the chocolate concrete with mint custard!

[nungate]

Lovely ode DT, nice to have a new ode

[nungate]

Mint custard? Never had that, but we did have pink custard, even best beloved remembers the pink custard!

[tonyav]

Absolutely loved the chocolate concrete with mint custard!


Oh yes Daisy, we called it concrete and toothpaste.

[Mammar]

Igor, wait for meeee!
I'll let you in. We can 'check' the stock if you like

[tonyav]

I'm liking that ode from our very own bard.

[Igor61]

Come along Madame Mammar................I thought you had a key?

[tonyav]

gawd, there go's all of the chocolate then !.

[DaisyNonna]

Yes, it is a show Tony, called 'A Moment in Time'. The Dorset ballet schools get together once a year to do a charity show, money going to local children's charities. This year each school is to choose a particular time and a dance to go with it, not necessarily ballet. GD's school have chosen to do The Lindy Hop. Can't wait!

[Mammar]

DT - very evocative
It's a good job we're all over 50 as the young 'uns wouldn't get the significance of the 'sock shod stove warmed flatiron'.
Ah, those were the days.

[Mammar]

I got delayed reading the pome, Igor.
I'm here now.
What shall we check first?

[tonyav]

The Lindy Hop, great stuff Daisy. love to see them doing that.

[nungate]

I'd love to see the Lindy hoppers myself Daisy, should be really good!