to think IPOAT gels will never marry well if they continue to be so fast?

[CaptainHornblower]

Do you mean Physician Doc-Tor? The young, handsome one so needful of a wife? What a terribly good idea.

I have found the maidens to be easily distractable with say a lace hanky to embroider....gave me more than enough time to..ahem..introduce myself formally to one of the lovely deppiams.

If Brian Cox comes to the hall I shall officially flounce!

fear not Miss Entropy, he won't be born for a few hundred years.

Not Brian Cox then. Is there a Professor Higgs-Boson in the vicinity. And if there is, is he in need of a wife? We could offload a maiden.

Good thinking Mini, can they be offloaded, or are they inextricably bound to the Deppiams

I believe Profesor Stringetta Theory is shortly to give a series of lectures hereabouts, perhaps she could help?

Why Hully, yes she will be here. Dear Professor Stringetta.

I have heard she was quite a Gel in her day, I am certain she could offload the maidens in a trice.

If we send them for a couple of spins on the fast cycle of the large hadron collider, they might go down the plug.

It's all gone quiet. Has everybody gone down the plug into a parallel universe? Oh well time for tisane 'n tonic.

I am here. Have been polishing the IPOAT Hadron Collider. Thank heavens Miss EntropyGirl is skilled at cloning. Although her tatting and embroidery show a certain lack of attention to detail, I feel we should not judge too harshly. Her cloning talents are most useful.

The maidens will be offloaded soon

Then we may turn our full attention to the Yule celebrations. Mistress Mini and I have brewed lovingly produced a variety of festive and warming beverages.

Whom should we invite to help us celebrate the season?

Tatting a collider is quite hard work, you know...

(Belle here)

Why Belle, how PanAmmySashayiy and Insouciant you are. It suits you!

Have a break from tatting and help me sample the Yule tisanes.

I have been industriously tatting an advant calender for today ladies, shall we meet in the yellow drawing room later to open door one with mince pies and a large small glass of sherry?

Also, can I please have a sparrow Deppian. The scissors kind makes me very nervous in the gusset area. He is for christmas after all!

I am so sorry, I have been tatting a frothing and debating the qualities that make up a gentleman and a lady. Have we solved the problem of the Nediams? I do so hope to find a Deppiam in my stocking.

For the first time Ever since I joined the MN Tatting Circle, I have tatted myself a Yule name.
Please do not be alarmed. The distillery herb-drying shed is still in good hands.

It is very pretty, Fidsy.

In the immortal words of dear Bruce, Give us a twirl.

Hello ladies. I too have tatted a Christmas name but it's not as pretty as Fids

Jinsel! How you sparkle and shine!

You put me in mind of my youth when it was de rigeur for every picture and mirror in the house to sport a great fat snake of tinsel in some lurid colour.

Well dear ladies - I have lost my eyebrows....

I awoke in the middle of the night with a master plan for deppiam extraction, 'zero point energy' I cried out in my sleep. How could I have been so foolish as to have forgotten that you may borrow as much energy from the vacuum energy levels as you like, so long as you return it post-haste!

Off to the cellar I ran and returned but moments latter a deppiam on each arm. However I had barely made it as far as the cherry orchard when I was suddenly surrounded by maidens popping into existence from thin air!

Knowing I could never fend them off single handed, I fled for my very life, all the time furiously calculating. And sure enough I had borrowed enough energy to allow a goodly proportion of the maidens to tunnel through the 10m of bedrock between the cellar and the orchard. It was around that point that the first maiden fell into the arms of her beloved and blew the other deppiam, all of the maidens present and a goodly portion of the orchard to hell and back.

On the minus side I fear we have lost a good dozen or so of the maidens and several mature cherry trees. On the plus side that leaves us with around 10 unpaired deppiams so get tatting those (extra large) stockings now!

Typical!!

There's spare deppiams and I'm dressed like this

What lovely names. And what a fine array of deppiams. You spoil us...

I like it Jins, it shows off your slender ankles.

Due to the large glut of raspberries this year the undergardener and I were in a quandry as to how we could use them to best advantage. Thankfully I found an old raspberry gin recipe in the christmas topic cookbook and we shall have plenty to see us over the festive period.

Given Jins fabulous outfit and my new festive name I have decided to spend the christmas period dressed in this little number. Obviously if the vicar comes to luncheon I will add gloves. Madame Hully would demand no less.

Oh if the vicar joins us for lunch I shall add a hat to my ensemble

Much as I admire the work that you and the undergardener have put in I do fear that raspberry gin isn't going to be acceptable unless for purely medicinal purposes

Rather coincidentally I do have a slight headache

I anticipate have many many headaches between now and 2012 Jins. Fortunately I laid a lot few barrels of sloe gin aside in case we run short. Purely for health reasons, obviously.

This hat would look fabulous on you.

Yes, a lady should never be without her gloves. I think perhaps <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=evening+gloves+drunk&hl=en&client=safari&sa=X&tbo=d&tbm=isch&tbnid=c_X9EMIad9k6JM:&imgrefurl=selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html&docid=CNaGIFtfW9KPeM&imgurl=2.bp.blogspot.com/_s9HfUXwMFrM/Re2pYw3fwXI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/FcF5ySEanOM/s320/cydbandwagon3.jpg&w=256&h=320&ei=QYPXTq6_EsTL8QOG4dDkDQ&zoom=1&biw=1024&bih=690" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this might re-ignite the passions of the curate. Though I fear he is long missing from my dance card.