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

[CaptainHornblower]

This particular example would floor Johnny (literally) and frankly is cause of vapours rather than the cure....Im afraid further work on the coat of arms will be somewhat delayed...

Lawks. Entropy might you need to bring in a tradesman? Or specialist artificer.

185 doubloons? Miss Sybil still has several chests of the doubloons she earned while out raiding and cavorting with praying with the pirates down at the cove.

She rightly kept them away from the Hall for safety. Perhaps she would help out with the chaises longues.

Miss Fids is correct, I do indeed have some doubloons which I will gladly donate to such a cause. I keep them somewhere very safe, if slightly warm...

On reflection, 185 doubloons seems a lot for wood.

The wood merchant may have taken advantage of your being distracted by the Coat of Arms and you were perchance afflicted by the glue fumes.
My research shows you could have bought a whole ship for that.
I think we should set Miss Sybil and her pirates on that scoundrelly merchant.

I had noticed that miss Sybil was walking funny.

Oh Lord my diet is making me morose :(

Would anyone happen to have a spare doughnut or 3 course meal about their person?

Strangely, Madame Jins, my diet is making me fatter. I cannot understand it at all.

Mine's doing that too :( I'm a pound heavier than when I started

I'm two. And today I opened a big box of chocs because it was staring at me and tormenting me.

Ooooh I had no idea we were importing the mighty fine cocoa bean to IPOAT hall...

There is a special chocolate larder. We each have our own keys.
Plus a Jelly Bean larder. I requested that.

And so many more. We must do a tour together when you've finished wrestling with the chaise longues.

I still use the ol' 'just had a baby' excuse. Then she toddles past and says 'hiya mama' and I know it's only me I'm fooling.

I think you should all eat many fine biscuits on my behalf. I love biscuits and here in Freedonia there are sadly none worthy of the name. A few pale imitations which tantalise and then disappoint.

So please do be selfless and eat them for me.

Good morning to you all. I have subdued the chaise longue of doom and have produced (with a great deal of assistance from the hall synchronised seamstressing team) a new IPOAT coat of arms. I have distressed the leg a little although I could not bear to represent it's full gory glory.

The IPOAT arms.

That's brilliant but where pray is the tatting shuttle?

I do approve of the leg. Very lifelike in dear Mr Rochester's case

hmm the thing across the middle is supposed to be a tatting needle?

Oh how clever of you to tat with a needle! I'd be lost without my shuttle

As you were :)

Oh it is one of the least well kept secrets of the hall, I can't tat at all! I wanted to include a shuttle but it was fundamentally the wrong shape for the space and I had used up all my brain power trying to fix the demon chaise longue.

Just so so impressed.

It is beautiful.
We should have this symbol of our unity festooned upon all our garments.
I shall enquire at the local PhotoShoppe.
Mugs and mouse mats would make delightful Christmas gifts for the wenches.

Just inside the mouse hole to wipe their feet.

pag you just made me cover my quill in biscuit crumbs....

Miss Entropy, truly splendid. I have already had the Coat of Arms stencilled onto our grape-infusions and inscribed upon our Hall notepaper.

We shall be the envy of the County. There may be some wealthy suckers with social aspirations gentlemen who may now be attracted to the nobility of the Gels.

I fear our reputation was slightly tarnished of late by the rumours of our travels to Transylvania and the Argentine. Some wicked minds did not believe we were engaged in cultural exchange and invaluable botanical expeditions.

Gels and Madames, I have announced our splendid heraldic contraption thusly