If You Had A Big Do On The 6Th Of Next Month How...

[sandyRoe]

... would you deal with a reprobate brother?
Is asking him to be suffering from unexpected Covid a possibility?

[douglas9401]

That should work, especially if he's already breathless with anticipation.

[rowanwitch]

If he is that bad telling him to make excuses is likely to ensure his attendance.
Maybe say the event is being held somewhere other than it is.
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[DTCwordfan]

Chez Gness and Dave should put him off - Belfast to Kerry ain't a short trip.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah on the invite
get one of the kids to scrawl out Abbey and write in Cathedral...

Charades have happened before. 1820 A leddy ( ay am not sure if she had her evil majordomo Pergami and child ( John Austen) with her as she hammered on the closed doors of the Abbey and shouted

open up: I am the Queen of England !

[sandyRoe]

Caroline of somewhere or other.

[Tilly2]

Brunswick?