Mad Over Fifties Club

[nungate]

Good evening and welcome to Nungate Towers for tonight's meeting of the Mad Over Fifties Club. All here at the Towers hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, and are all set for the usual mayhem and madness which marks our weekly meetings.
On the menu tonight, there will be the usual selection of volly vonts and horses doovers, the hot plate special will be a massive Paella, and on the pudding trolley, a Crema Catalana - in keeping with the Spanish theme, tonight's Tailcock will be the "Barca Blaugrana" a bi-coloured drink featuring the colours of our beloved Barcelona FC - an intriguing mix of Blue Curacao and Cherry Brandy plus a "secret mix of ingredients"
For the rofl I offer: a box of Christmas wrapping (used) plus tags
a festive sweater
roll of sticky tape
half a Christmas pud (minus custard)
The Minstrels will be back in the gallery playing (very quietly they are all still in recovery from the Festivities of last week) madrigals and lullabies, hopefully they will be able later to give us their take on the greatest hits of Iron Maiden

Igor and the rest of the staff await your pleasure, a warm welcome to all who dare enter these hallowed halls

Carriages at midnight

[DTCwordfan]

a bottle of wine or my signature, mammar? Immense value if it is mine!

[nungate]

It's funny how things ted to go a bit quiet at this time at MOFC. So I shall ask everyone what was their best Christmas present? I shall say (just in case she read this) that Queenie gave her mum a Nintendo 3DS and some games to play on it! Only because we both like to play Professor Layton and it was only available on 3D and we couldn't play it on our original consoles. (I was forced to buy myself one as she wouldn't let me play with hers!) Though I think my favourite gift was a little copper and silver brooch of a running hare given to me by best beloved.

[nungate]

that should read "tend" to get quiet --- must buy this laptop a dictionary!

[Mammar]

I got some lovely prezzies but the one that made my heart glad was an iPad Puppy screen cleaner

[DaisyNonna]

A book written by my son-in-law.

[nungate]

I've seen those Mammar - quite cute! Isn't it funny how it's the small, even silly things that give us the most pleasure?

[nungate]

Daisy, that's fabulous! Did he dedicate to you or your daughter?

[DaisyNonna]

No. We have both already had a book each dedicated to us.

[nungate]

Oh, my that's really nice to have a book dedicated to you. Have you read it yet? Or are you saving it for when all the festivities are done and you can settle down and have a jolly good read?

[Mammar]

Oo it shouldn't be Dt's autograph I'm putting on ebay - it should be your son in law's!

[nungate]

I haven't been on e-bay in ages. Anything good?

[DaisyNonna]

Yes, already read it as I proof read it. Sometimes mothers -in law can be useful.

[Mammar]

Nearest I've got to fame is to be mentioned in the acknowledgements of a couple of books.

[DaisyNonna]

Mammar. He went to lunch with David Attenborough just before Christmas. Daughter and I swooning with jeaousy.

[nungate]

Now that would have been a lunch I'd have loved to have attended!

[Mammar]

I proof read my daughter's dissertations for their degrees but they weren't the sort of thing to inspire anyone.

[DTCwordfan]

Three out there, fourth and fifth underway, the latter about the joys of Alzheimers - general advice, caring and some of the humour.....

[Mammar]

David Attenborough? Now there's a man who couldn't have enough honours heaped on him, in my opinion. Brilliant mind and nice with it, I'll bet.

[nungate]

There's definitely humour in Alzheimers DT. I use it a lot to deflect some of my mother's wilder "moments"

I used to write stories for queenie when she was small - she even remembers ............ cringe

[Mammar]

Dissertations, DT? I had Footprints in Blood Spatter at Crime Scenes and The Effects and Containment following a Nuclear Explosion. Couldn't they have taken something more feminine?