Mad Over Fifties Club

[nungate]

Good evening and welcome to the Summer Solstice meeting of Mad Over Fifties.
First, my apologies for my absence last week owing to a migraine I was incapacitated. Also I'd like to give my thanks to Mrs Overall for providing a welcome alternative for members of MOFC and for welcoming the only slightly insane members of AB. (something has to be done for these poor souls)
Well, tonight at the Towers it's a case of anything goes! The mixologist has brewed up a vat full of Tailcock, he has decided to call it the "let's ignore the World Cup" so everybody roll up and fill your buckets. Igor is not at the door waiting for our guests this week, he his currently leading the ceremonies at the Summer Solstice gathering down by the lake so if anyone wants their coats, cloaks or broomsticks hidden they will have to do the hiding themselves!
In view of the solemnity of the lakeside proceedings, we ask members to refrain from peeking out of the windows on the lake side of the Towers and also not to venture lake wards tonight. Thank you.
There will be a running buffet tonight so anyone who can catch it please feel free to help themselves.
For anyone wishing to dance the night away, we have engaged the services of the Elastic Band, another local group of musicians who have agreed to stand in for the Tone Deafs who are providing music down at the lake...
As always we have the usual facilities for our members, the indoor pool, the beach, the gym etc., new members who are not aware of the facilities we have on offer can pick up a brochure in the vestibule where they will find a list of the facilities we offer at the Towers.

For the rofl tonight I offer:
dozen plastic plant pots, (empty)
1 Bosch washer dryer (goosed - but people keep knocking at my door asking what I'm going to do with it! ? It's waiting for a council pick up for heavens sake! Do they think I do laundry in the front yard?)
2 Freezers both defunct (that was a bad week!)

A warm welcome awaits all who dare enter these portals this evening.

Members are again reminded to show respect and avoid the Lake


carriages at midnight

[anneasquith]

a beach party, skinny dipping ?

[DTCwordfan]

While sailing by beyond the MoFC fringe
I caught a song by Tony Winge,
Heralding the Shipping Forecast -
"Attention, all at the Nungate Towers' sea! "

Beware of sipowicz gales in Forties, Tyne,
Fisher, Jogger, GerZac Bight,
Humber, Polar and BoxieDover, Wight,
Portland, Pasta-Plymouth, Lundy, Sole,
Fitzroy, Biscay, AOG Trafalgar,
Shannon read kvaldir, Fastnet, Psybbo's Sea,
Rockall, Builder's Malin, Hebrides,
Faeroes, Daisy's Fair Isle, Cromarty.

Here's the general situation,
(Please forgive my Bardish hesitation)
There is much precipitation
And it's pissing on my head!

I have a vague impression
Of a deepening depression;
There's an Alba cyclone over Iceland
And my wine glass is feeling very low.

It is foggy in the tony shorties
So that I can see Jim360s Fockall
And it's freezing in the Ausspe Faeroes -
I'll need our Daisy's Fair Isle after all.

But in North and South Igor Utsire
Visibility is clearer
And I've come to the conclusion
That this front is just a wineglass occlusion.

There's storm force 10 in Ed's Biscay
Making sailing rather risky,
But the weather now in Sloopy's Viking
May be much more to our MoFC liking.

[DaisyNonna]

Excellent idea nungate! Beach volleyball for the energetic. A scavenger hunt! Barbecue and bonfire?

[DaisyNonna]

You'll be more than welcome DT. Will get the knitting needles ready.

[nungate]

Of course Daisy, all of those! Anne skinny dipping? I'll be in my thermals, have you been in the water here?

Most excellent DT! I love that piece of music and it seemed so right for your first ode

[tonyav]

Excellent, DT. How did you know that my singing sounds like wingeing though.

[DaisyNonna]

Crystal glasses should have no occlusion DT.

[DTCwordfan]

If it's like mine, tony (and minty's, apparently), I can break glass just like that - folk trying to escape by the windows.....

[DTCwordfan]

Baccarat or Waterford, daisy?

[tonyav]

folk trying to escape by the windows.....

LOL, they don't even have to open them if I sing, DT !.

[DTCwordfan]

exactly my point, tony........no time to open les fenetres......

[nungate]

just don't open the ones facing the lake

[tonyav]

Gawd, I'd love to know what Igor is up to down at the lake.

[nungate]

unless you fancy going through the next ten years as a frog I'd steer well clear Tony

[tonyav]

Actually I wouldn't mind to much if I got to be kissed by a few princesses, nungate !.

[DaisyNonna]

Waterford DT. Desolee, broke my last one last week. Only had it 46 years.

[nungate]

Oh, that's a real shame Daisy, after all those years. There's a clarity about Waterford that I haven't really seen anywhere else. I don't have any Waterford, but I do have Edinburgh (who doesn't) and quite a lot of pre war crystal, much more substantial than the modern stuff

[DaisyNonna]

Can't imagine you green and croaking Tony.
My father's surname was king...

[tonyav]

Ohhhhh, Daisy is a princess.


Was there more lead in pre war crystal glass ?.

[DTCwordfan]

probably was, tony. shame, daisy, serious being pished off if it was here.