... to think that because I can't see a new IPOAT thread I should start one myself?

[PrincessFiorimonde]

Especially as I want to wish CheerfulYank a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY for today. Hope you are having a lovely day.

And here is the patron saint of IPOAT playing Happy Birthday To CY!

I've plenty to spare, Riv darling.

Hully's Convoy reference puts me in mind of this

(and that'll sort you out as well Riv)

Good lord Lady Umami. Isnt that a member of the endangered species, grizzly bearus?

Cant quite see. Some blokey is in the way...

I shall sit in the comfy chair for Doctor Johnny has pronounved my back to be somehwta fractured. Clealry too muchbtatting in the barn. So now its all laying on chase loungies and peeled grapes for me.

Oh bravo! It was a tour de force! A masterclass in diffusing a thread with Love and Joy.

I shall have to leave Bullying by MN Royalty until tomorrow.

Dear Riven, we warned you about the practice of Extreme Tatting. What does Doctor Johnny intend to do for you? Will he have at you with his blades, or will he merely soothe you with an embrocation?

Oh Mymymy. Fans wildly. Widow Umami, forsooth. I must vomit pat my delicate cheeks with a moistened linen.

Think he is planning the blades but hopefully he is gentle. I am but a timid thing and do not undertsand such matters. Why only the other day i burned the prawns

Ypu are afraid for the bear too Mistress mini?

Oh dear. I believe the other thread has gone poof before I got to enjoy it.

Ah, well the blades at least mean he must be hopeful of being able to fix the damage somewhat. Will you have to wait for a long time, or will the good Doctor use his charm and good looks to speed you to his table sooner?

Dear Mini, if you keep returning to The Bear, increasing the time you spend looking upon him a little each time, you will soon build up a tolerance.

Darling Penguin, thats Ok soon you will be joining me in the land of the po-ash where we all talk like a polite county bumpkin in my case BBC presenters. We will forgive your brash Essex ways

polite country bumpkin surely that's an oxymoron

GASP! Oh no you di-unt, Ms Penguin!

Oh yes I did

I actually went to write something crass then but pulled back at the last minute

I meant, of course:

What a scandalous falsehood! The countrified folk may, of course, be rough and not as genteel as one would wish, but many of them are quite prettily mannered.

The good doctor will have me on the tbale as soon as possible i am told. I must cleanse myself and wave goodbye to the dashing Mr rochester

A cleansing ritual!

2.bp.blogspot.com/_5WUZDXTJTFw/TUr3RHFVIKI/AAAAAAAAC5U/BG0X8loGO5w/s1600/P1.jpggroup photos ladies. Sister Hully is of course the racy one. Tsk

Oh dear.

Now accused of bullying and racism...

Riven - shite baout your back. What is fractured? A disc?

Oh?

Yes, apparently I (along with the others from the day orphanages thread) are royalty racist bullies. I never knew.

Gobshite and Mamazon totally misunderstood. They read all the nonsense as taking the piss out of the OP. I read it as disarming a thread that was going to make a lot of people very angry and upset by filing it with fun and nonsense and Love Batons, as is your MO. There were some isolated comments earlier in the thread which were a bit '...and what about you travellers and your ways...', but they were not from the 'Royalty' later accused of bullying.

Have just been reading the salaam alaikum (is that right?) thread you're on Riv and had to Google abaya - they are really rather nice, all long and swishy and elegant. I could so work that look. Want one. Hully can have a very plain blue one.