... 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!

Someone called me a fast young gel!!!! >

Thought you might like this - just teasing of cousre!

I'm all about the kittens too

There's no room for joy on this thread passivelyaggressive -it's all about prayer and tatting.

Have you thought about tatting your ... um... shavings?

i could make a silk scarf!

wanders off wondering about tatting and ipoats

they are better tasting when fully grown

A three wheeled chariot? That sounds innovative.

Prawn leg bouillabaise for me but can I have mine with the prawn still attached?

I hope hully is feeling calmer. I shall pray for her as well as the kittens

Ladies! I return, chastened and afraid. I was locked in the barn with the Right Rev, worried for my maidenly soul. Smoke filled the darkened gloom, I feared the barn was alight and fled. Wandered in confusion reading random pamphlets until I saw the hallowed Hall of IPOAT.
Tatting - I know little of. Would that have helped me in my week of enforced exile?

I was 'avin a faaag!

Needs a tisane. Or posset.
Possibly both.

Roast kitten

Now look here.

Just how many of you are in that barn?

dear mr Rochester says the very rafters groan and complain, charred and blackened as they are and bring back such awful memories he is quite wretched.

A few of us Mistress Hully but the rebuild is going well

It has taken me sometime to recover from the swoon, precipitated by the 'bear'. I will loosen my stays and steel myself for another look, for medicinal and character building purposes only of course. I will add your seminar suggestions to the curriculae Lady Umami. currently working on 'How to Sashay in a Crinoline'.
I suggest homeopathic prawn in preparation for your visit to the knife man Riv.

Must stay off other threads Must stay off other threads. Stay away from The Foamers..

. I think you are very brave venturing out of the safety of the Halls. 'tis a cruel world out there. I am much more of a coward and will remain in the tatting area with occasional sorties to the apothecary garden to gather the healing herbs.

Mistress Hully - Foamers:
After a week without internet in the barn I was comforted by the IPOAT Halls and the thread that is the WestWing of a Hall Faraway. Everything else, scary for a maiden.

Mistress Mini - I offer my help with gathering healing herbs.

Your help is greatly appreciated Miss fiderer, we must observe the phases of the moon, and only gather on the prescibed days for if not the herbs may turn nasty.

prescribed that is. I must put a new quill in this pen.

Nasty herbs may sour the potency of any healing.

I confess that I do not venture beyond the confines of IPOAT much nowadays.

I have ventured out and, on the whole, found madness and desolation. Tis best to stay here under the ministrations of Rev Wright.

We're going to need a bigger barn.

ta daa!

Some nicely tatted antimacassars about and net curtains for modesty and it'll be grand.

missing a few vital ingredients here and there

Ok, so basically your saying our brains barn is a little flaky and unstable?