We are going to a Christmas Party!

Cocktails served in the drawing room

Bags and baggage! ( leave them by the front entrance, and Jenkins will direct the footmen to carry them in for you.)

After Eight mints

X?
Yule logs

Wagon Wheels

Veuve Cliquot champagne

Unguentum....(ointment ) for sore hands,knees,and boompsa daisies

Taramasalata - phew, didn't think I would be able to spell it! (what is it?)

Santa of course

Reindeer ....well it is christmas

Questions......I will be answering them all in due course.

Prunes - well, you know what unaccustomed food and drink can do to a digestive system .

Olives & (cocktail) onions

No smoking except in the grounds, away from the house

Many GN having a party

Lacklustre - not allowed

Kaiser chiefs....(I predict a riot)

Jigsaws - in the library for those requiring some quiet time (or who are just miserable!)

Incredible music from the orchestra in the ballroom.

Hog roast ( there will be one set up in the walled garden,Anatole, the chef will be presiding)

maps HAVE been sent to all Gransnetters ( ruddy Royal Mail!) Rosesarered Towers is in Oxfordshire and is well known, so if you do get lost on the way, wind down your car window and shout at a local for directions....though beware of them guiding you through the river, the ford is deeper than it looks!

Glitter and Glitz lots of

Feather boas

Elegance

Doughnuts

Candlelight so much kinder to mature faces.