Mad Over Fifties Club

[nungate]

Good evening and welcome to Nungate Towers, venue of the latest meeting of the AB Mad Over Fifties club.
What have we for your delight and edification tonight?
Well, our Tailcock of the evening will be the "HowlinGale" inspiration drawn from the hoolie blowing outside! For our hot plate special we have that stomach lining dish, Stovies, hearty and filing, the very thing for a dark and stormy night! On the pudding trolley, our pastry chef has excelled himself and invented an ice cream Battenburg! Strawberry and Vanilla ice cream swathed in a golden almond sponge cake (a bit like a square Arctic Roll!) and of course the usual selection of volley vonts, canopies and horses doovers! mmm yum!
Up in the gallery, in addition to the usual selection of Madrigals and fugues played by the Minstrels, they will be joined later by the Towers' staff in the Great Hall for Carol singing (we haven't told Carol yet, boy will she be
surprised!) In the ballroom, we have our favourite local band The Tone Deafs playing a selection of oldies but goodies and just a soupcon of seasonal numbers tossed in to add a little festive touch.
The indoor pool is open to members, as is the library, where we have a lovely fire blazing in the hearth, and a fabulous selection of books and periodicals for members who would prefer a quieter evening, the snug is also available for members wishing a quiet time, there is a trolley of drinks and snacks laid out and a huge array of DVDs to choose from if members would prefer to watch something. Of course the hot tub is bubbling away on the North Tower for those members wishing to brave the elements (hopefully it has been well anchored) however I must state that owing to high winds the bungee will not be in operation this evening (the piranhas in the moat will be sorry and Igor will have to feed them later ....)
And now a short announcement for our members.
Next week will be MOFC's Annual Christmas Ball, members may wish to come in mufti if they please or dress as characters from Pantomime or any form of fancy dress of their choosing. Santa will of course "drop" in on proceedings with gifts for all!
For the rofl tonight I offer:
3 yards of purple tinsel (surplus to requirements)
1 set of fairy lights (not working)
4 boxes of Christmas tree baubles (smashed, thank you Plant aka "butterfingers" .......)
Igor will be in the vestibule to collect cloaks, brooms and any other accoutrements members wish to be concealed during the course of tonight's meeting (no guarantees of their safe return)
Queenofmean sends her apologies she has a prior engagement this evening
Daisynonna will also be an absentee owing to a better offer sigh Igor of course is devastated .......

A warm welcome awaits all who dare enter these portals


carriages at midnight

[Igor61]

Madame the staff are assembled, thought they are currently checking out adverts on youtube, but rest assured they will be ready when summoned.

[nungate]

as I said before, those were the days!

[lady-janine]

hi nuns, igor, et all. sorry i have not been present this evening but danish politics had me in its grasp and i feel it is rude to turn up so late in the evening. i hope you all had a good time, as usual, and now wish you all a good night's sleep. xx

[tonyav]

Good night then, lj.

[nungate]

Hi Lady J, I'll be around for a while yet, best beloved has just gone to collet Queenie from her soiree! Nice of you to pop round though.
How's the computer trouble going? I hope things have improved

[lady-janine]

still haven't sorted out an email but will be in touch as soon as i have. seem to have developed a stinking cold throughout the day and waiting for the tobs to take effect so that i can go to bed. it's a lot warmer in this room than any other.

[tonyav]

So lj isn't off to bed just yet then. Has Queenie been out on the razzle then, nungate.

[lady-janine]

night night tony. if you finish on wed. how long are you off for?

[tonyav]

Bet you've picked that cold up while you've been outside dragging railway sleepers about, lj.

[tonyav]

Until Jan 6th, lj.

[nungate]

Yes, her work night out, this year it's being held in a hotel in the town and not somewhere else around the county so it's a five minute run there and back - I expect her to be sober! (not much of a drinker - can't be really because of the diabetes)

[tonyav]

Hope she's enjoyed her self, nungate.

[lady-janine]

wow that's a long time. we used to get christmas day and boxing day and then new years day.

g/son is arriving thurs or fri and then he doesn't have to go back until 4/5 jan.

i hope not as we've still got 14 more to move. had a break the last couple of day - shopping, etc. back to it soon.

[tonyav]

Good night all, and thanks for a lovely evening as usual, nungate.

[lady-janine]

hope she's having a good time. know what you mean about the drinking. i always get the job of driving. don't mind too much at least i know our car is safe.

[nungate]

Good night Tony don't forget the Ball next week - best bib and tucker!

[lady-janine]

sleep well tony. xx

[nungate]

Best beloved has always been popular at parties as he never drinks, the only time he will have anything alcoholic is in a hot toddy when he has a cold! My mum always said he made the best hot toddies. Queenie, has avoided alcohol for a few years now. We thought she'd got wasted at another Christmas do, and were less than sympathetic but we bumped into one of her colleagues in the supermarket next day who asked us how she was, we told her we were less than happy with her then she told us that she had barely drank a glass of wine and was really quite ill. She had that norovirus and we had to take her to hospital to get her stabilised, she was on a drip and anti emetics for a while.

[lady-janine]

things like that are horrible for all concerned. i was accused of being drunk one but someone had used bananas in something and then told me they had not. anaphalatic shock. i was so ill. hospital, etc. really not funny.

[nungate]

That's nasty Lady J. It's amazing how these things can be misconstrued.