Well here we are again at the doors of Nungate Towers for tonight's meeting of the Mad Over Fifties Club.
On tonight's agenda, it's a case of anything goes!
The hot tub is bubbling away nicely on the North Tower for anyone wishing to indulge, (the mini bar up there has also been replenished) Both swimming pools (indoor and outdoor) are available for members use, as is the lake where the rowing boats are moored. Down at the beach the bathing huts are open and a barbecue has been set up for any members who fancy a bit of cooking alfresco.
Back within the confines of the Towers, the minstrels will be in the gallery as always, playing madrigals and toccatas, and in the ballroom our favourite local band, the Tone Deafs will be playing a selection of music for dancing.
Tonight's Tailcock the "Centre Court" conjures the Championship at Wimbledon in a glass - strawberries and cream, Pimms and pizza plus a few other selected ingredients known only to it's creator! On our Hot plate Special we have Queenie's favourite, Farmhouse Pasta (we went to a lot of trouble finding just the right farmhouse for this dish) on tonight's pudding trolley, we have pancakes with cherries jubilee, and ice cream. As always there will be a selection of volley vonts and canopies and sundry nibbles.
A warm welcome awaits all who dare enter these portals
Tone, shall I go fetch a bar of Dairy Milk out of my cupboard and we'll grate it over the strawbs? And some for Nungate, of course.
And for the roffle
A builder's bag full of lawn clippings
Several squashed tennis balls (run over by the lawnmower but they might plump up)
About half a pound of strawberry tops
Alarm clock
A wet flannel
Hang on queenie, I think I remember now. Have a look at your Email from Ebay telling you that your item has been sold, if I remember it should say who has bought it and also their address.
Queenie, you wouldn't like to deal with this bagful of my daughter's clothes she asked me to ebay while she was away? She left in early April and I haven't looked at them yet. I haven't done any ebay before either.
Thanks for the bucket, Igor. I'd think you were 'court'ing me but I'm sure you're 'net'. 'Lob' another bucketful this way when you can, please 'love'.
Good evening all those fair, dark, sultry, thin, obese, whatever.....
One half tennis ball, Fred Perry's broken racket, one net cog, one model of Ile Nastase sitting on Hawk Eye, one Wimbledon smutty postcard with 'I scored here,' 1 condom machine from the Crooked Billet, one return ticket to Clapham from 2011, one umpire's chair and a gallon of line paint with a brush that only has two hairs (how they paint tram lines).
Igor's fault! It's gone down me front!
I might as well go for a swim now. It'll rinse out me blouse and work off some calories so I've got more room for those strawberries
Evening DT. You only have one of Nastase's balls? I have six! Yellow, stamped Dewar Cup ..... 197 something Albert Hall, I was there .....
oh happy days!
Mammar, would you like Belle to rinse that out for you?