... 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!

Ladies and gels, I have momentous news. Yesterday I supped in a tavern and on the pudding menu was.....................................

LEMON POSSET

Well, Mistress Hully, so it is proven, a life of selfless virtue does bring rewards.

Jins - that's awful. Did you cancel the appointment?

Smiley hosting, dear Hully how your jaw must ache. There, now rub in a little of this smelly healing ointment. This is where the 'fat head' comes into its own.

You were in a tavern?!

It was supping. Supping in a most respectable and separate dining room. The ale drinkers were elsewhere with their cavorting and hijinks. We said prayers and read improving literature whilst embarked upon our modest fare.

Barley and husks?

And dripping.

The most annoying thing was that I forgot to have the demn posset.

Dripping is a bit extravegabt for midweek sister Hully. And ina place of ill repute too. Why, i imagine the dashinb MR Rochester may be disapproving of your fast ways.

Dear Mr Rochester was there. He enjoyed a pigs trotter in milk jelly and slapped his chops most vigorously.

Call me old fashioned if you like but I've never really moved across to the modern way of thinking that taverns are acceptable places for ladies even if it is just for supping and reading improving literature.

You mark my words. In no time at all previously gentle womenfolk will be getting tattoos, drinking pints and shagging conversing with young bachelors in the delivery yard.

Have you been reading Mr Dickens, Madame Jins? If he is yet born, of course.

Mr Dickens is a wise man in these matters. Just wait until Mr Hardy gets published and you will see where society might end up

Up the duff in a turnip field, I'll warrant.

Indeed, and tatting will have died away and where are the barns? Nkwhere for a lady of good breeding i"ll warrant

A barn

A turnip field, with Lady Riven, Madame Hully and Sister Honeydragon hard at work.

While Mistress Jins takes her ease ...

And we all tat on ...

PS: lemon posset

Yes, yes that is me taking my ease!

Lemon posset pictures should be banned at this time of day though as I now have the urge for something recklessly indulgent

Back soon

I might make a lemon posset. Imagine.

To my eyes in that picture it seems as if Mistress Jins has added something to her Lemon Posset. Something one could only acquire in a, it must be said, tavern.
"Taking my ease" she declares.

She looks to me as if she has quite been at the pipe.