Grand Christmas Ball....all welcome

New Year almost with us. That’s what I call a Christmas ball.
All over to geminils* for the New Year’s Eve party. I have my ball gown on and my glass carriage awaits. Come on lemon giddy up, you know I can’t afford horses as well

This being New Year's Eve I've just watched that perennial short film "Dinner for One" starring Freddie Frinton on TV.
It's been shown every NYE since TV was invented and is a marvellous ritual. Always funny and good for a laugh, which is what we all need right now.
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Lemon Oo er! Yes please! I've always wondered "what the butler saw"; , so if I cast my gaze up to the chandelier all will be revealed; a sight for sore eyes, perhaps?

My goodness scribbles I will certainly not be joining Klara on the chandelier ( it wouldn’t hold my weight for a start ) I could manage to warble the odd note or two though. ?

Ladies & Gents? Didn't you know that's on the Banned List? It upsets the gender fluid, apparently. (I've encountered quite a lot of fluid here tonight, alcoholic and otherwise, but no gender fluid). Will Klara Whatsaface be okay if we join in the choruses? Nothing like a good operatic sing along ...and this will be nothing like etc, etc

lemon ? is that her swinging from the chandelier? I didn’t realise it was going to be that kind of performance ?

Klara den Warble ( celeb opera singer) is about to give a performance in the ballroom ( and after that, she’ll give us a bit of a song!) Take your seats please now, ladies and gents.

Jesting again Rufus.....u norty man, you can be our new butler if you’re not too doddery on your pins.?

Doodle My late Nana baked what she called "seed cake". It was gritty but certainly put anyone who dared eat it into a frenzy good mood. Not so good if your dentures are ill fitting.

I’ll have some figgy donuts now that I know what’s in them ?
Thanks soop I knew you’d come up with something good.

Figgy donuts liberally laced with some special weed that I found growing in the loft. MacSporran claims not to know where it came from. a likely story.

wrong thread m’dear)
Lemon Now you should know better than to patronize the "Oldies" and us "not so oldies", or are you a Mrs.Brown look-alike?
I'm the Master Patronizer around here and I've got scars to prove it!

you are quite correct
Doodle Don't take it to heart and take that silly dunce's hat off when you speak to me! I'm just back from a tooth extraction, 80 years we had been together, man and tooth! You don't know what you've got until it's gone, apart from a crater-size hole!
Tell Lemon I've replaced the poteen with a spittoon, but the anaesthetic is still affecting my aim.
OoRoo NHY

Hell's teeth! You lot are for it!!!!?

Glaswegian eh? Yes, that would be Marydoll tiny but feisty.

Figgy donuts.....Soop’s Scottish Specialities, once eaten never forgotten!

Exciting news lemon. Coffee smells delicious. Not too sure about the other thing though ? are you sure it’s a donut. It looks a little suspect to me. Pongs a bit too. ?

Excellent news! I really need a caffeine and sugar fix before I attempt to drive home.

Incidentally, I think Marydoll is in the maze. I fell over a comatose female who I thought was your grey lady until I realised this person wasn't headless but legless. I tried to rouse her but she just cussed at me in Glaswegian and mumbled something about Santa's tighty whiteys not being so white any more so I left her there.

Donuts and coffee are now being served in the gold drawing room.....see u there?☕️?

Cover up Chewy you don’t want to frighten the horses!
( the groom and Marydoll have vanished btw)

Because I am dyslexic Rufus I looked up the spelling of fuchsia before I wrote it and you are quite correct. Somewhere between my reading it and writing it down I changed the spelling. I think a little ? may have been involved in the mistake

ATISHOOOO! I've caught a cold wearing these damned skimpy dresses and boob tubes for a fortnight. Would someone please close the windows!

Yellow irises and Zinnias, Lemon? They'll look lovely (as well as disposing of two awkward letters).?

Thank heavens I finally found my way out of the maze. Now to find my way to my clapped out Yaris and attempt to drive home without my specs and without getting pulled over by the bizzies. Or did I bring the Zastava tonight ... Oh the joys of being inebriated and forgetful.

Xotic flowers from the orchid house in my hair

Rufus! Put the poteen down you are befuddled!
Scribbles is coming as Ken Dodd but at a different event at a different time entirely ( wrong thread m’dear) ?

What happened to V?
Very weird happenings in the stable!

one leotard in fuschia pink with my orange tutu
Doodle Sorry to correct you from Australia, but it's spelt "fuchsia" As a memory aid I always imagine a Scot saying "fooksia"!
Btw; I thought you said you're going as Ken Dodd? Wrong again! He's SIR Ken Dodd, but if you are going as Lady Dodd ( coming home as Lady Dodderer!?), remember your cheer squad will have to sport 50 shades of beige; his favourite colour for his afternoon matinee Seniors!
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