Mad Over Fifties Club

[nungate]

Welcome to Nungate Towers for the latest meeting of AB's Mad Over Fifties Club.
After a very busy afternoon, we finally managed to get things ready in time.
Tonight's Tailcock is the "Clasico" (Barcelona 2, Real Madrid 1 whoop, whoop!) Colour me happy!
For tonight's Hot Plate Special we have chicken in a hot spicy tomato sauce. served on a bed of rice and on the pudding trolley there is a delicious sticky toffee pudding, served with custard or whipped cream (yum!)
Members will be pleased to know that our Igor has left the wheelchair behind him and now has a walking plaster and a crutch (alas he is still not permitted to wear his chains)
The hot tub is bubbling away on the north tower, the bungee is ready for bouncing (though I advise anyone using it to try to avoid the moat on the downward journey - the piranhas do bite!) Down in the dungeons, the indoor pool has had the heating turned up a little and there is a nice selection of cossies available for any member who didn't bring their own.
The Minstrels are in the gallery tuning up their usual selection of madrigals and fugues. Down in the grand ballroom, our favourite local band The Tone Deafs, is also warming up, tonight they have promised to play a selection of '60's classics.
There are roaring fires in the snug and also in the library, where members will find in addition to our vast collection of leather bound tomes, a good selection of magazines and periodicals, including the latest edition of The Arc Welder's Weekly Almanack.
For tonight's rofl, I offer
Best Beloved (he knows what he has done)
One bottle of frozen diet coke
Lady of Burlesque dvd (Barbara Stanwyck good film) faulty!
2 clips from a Beko dishwasher - broken
(been a heck of a week!)

A warm welcome awaits all who dare enter these portals


Carriages at midnight

[tonyav]

G'night, Steve.

[DaisyNonna]

Would love to stay nungate but need to be at home to receive a phone call from my grandson to tell me about dancing......with a girl.

[nungate]

Dancing with a girl? Ooh! Is this the first time he's had a dancing partner?

[tonyav]

Know what you mean, Steve.

Dancing with a girl, Daisy !, how old is he ?.

[nungate]

Queenie attended an all girls secondary school, and I remember when she came home in her first year there asking if she could attend a disco at one of Edinburghs boys schools. When I mentioned to her Dad that she wanted to go to this disco at this particular school his words were "that's a boys school, why are they shipping the girls in?" She went to the disco, but her older cousin, came with us to pick her up saying if any of those boys had their hands on her he'd bash them! She's the only girl in the family and she and her cousins were more like brothers and sister and they were very protective of her! The same cousin now has 3 daughters I pity any boyfriends they might have in the future

[tonyav]

Ah, school disco's, happy memories.

[anneasquith]

tony (Blackburn) thanks for the requests. anne.

[nungate]

Happy days Tony, happy days!

[DaisyNonna]

He is eleven. They are taking part in a street dancing show. Shh. He has just started at an all boys Grammar school. Loves soccer and particularly rugby. A sprinter. But thoroughly enjoys his dancing. So proud of him.

[nungate]

Well, good for him Daisy. Dancers are among the fittest people I know, fitter than most sports people as well

[DaisyNonna]

I went to an all girls school. No such thing as a dance with boys. Luckily a close friend's father taught at an all boys school which positively encouraged inviting girls to dances.

[tonyav]

Sounds like he's having a great time, Daisy. encourage his dancing, it will help him on the football pitch[i.

Mixed school for me [i]happy days].

[anneasquith]

that's true nun. im a ballerina don't ya know :)

[DaisyNonna]

Past the witching hour nungate. Totsiens, lekker slaap.

[nungate]

There was a lot of mixing the boys schools with the girls schools as I remember. Though the school that Queenie attended stopped mixing with the first school and they got tied into another boys school, where she bumped into one of the lads that had been at her junior school. They had a club every Saturday night where the girls went along to learn Scottish Country dancing, culminating in a Highland Ball - Queenie had her first long ball gown and the full works! She looked wonderful! She has now amassed a fair collection of ball gowns and she still resembles a stroppy teenager!

[tonyav]

G'night, Daisy. Watch how you go on that broom as it's a bit blustery tonight !.

[nungate]

Anne, you are simply tu tu much!

Goodnight Daisy, I hope you have a lovely chat with your grandson tomorrow - I'm beginning to doubt that I'll ever have grandchildren!

[DaisyNonna]

Room on the Broom, Tony. Have you read it?

[tonyav]

No, can't say that I have, Daisy.