OMG lost as to what to do

[Cynthiathequeen]

Name changed. 20odd year old DC has just hosted a pre party at ours. After their v noisy departure went into the room they had been in to check for forgotten candles etc. Found a hand written note on headed note paper from one of this country's most august body's. It is an addendum note and asks the recipient to send the note writer their "term time address" plus more, but never stepping over a line.
I have no idea of sender or recipient, but they all went to a school which arranges many work placements in said body.my DC has been one of them. A number of the school alumni have ended up working there as a career
All individuals are 21 plus but I am at a loss. Unhappy the note could be pressure on someone not yet properly mature. i accept I probably cannot intervene, don't think it is my own DC, so just your thoughts please?

And streatham and st. reatham no doubt

As* not and

Condensed I had a maths teacher at school who pronounced 'mortgage' as mort-gage. No silent 't.' Even at 12 when I wasn't fully sure how those worked it made me think wtf.

I'm clueless

I assumed 'August body' was some sort of bikini diet

This bloke had so many plums in his mouth that I struggled to understand him ! I mostly heard 'Phnorf phnorf phnorf'. Even other very well spoken colleagues took the piss out of him!

Meant to be doing Xmas prep but this is too much fun. Another vote for the au-GUST pronunciation here.

I suspect we'll never get any enlightenment on this one.

I'd definitely cancel the cheque OP.

CondensedMilkSarnies thanks for translating into English!

Your DC's schools must have been very posh (private?) to organise work placements with an MP for their students.

Are you Zack Goldsmith?

condensed I do think your talents are wasted decoding MN threads. Couldn't you look into a role at MI5 or something?

Sorry, OP, this thread made me laugh a lot, sometime in the early hours.

I mostly heard 'Phnorf phnorf phnorf'. Even other very well spoken colleagues took the piss out of him!

I used to work in a very posh office with lots of very posh blokes and an ultra posh senior partner of the "phnorf" variety. It caused great hilarity one day when another posh male partner (educated at Harrow) came rushing into the assistants' room to say basically "I've got posh senior partner on the phone saying "phnorf, phnorf,about the sale of phnorf- does anyone have a clue what he's on about?"

God if I'd had a penny for every time I had received a hand written note on official paper from an August body, well...

I've just burst out laughing.

The pronunciation is not "augoost". The emphasis is on the gust part rather than the au part- it's like the name Augustus. I expect an Augustus may well be connected to an august body.

The word I really want to use is "receipt" for recipe. One of the Two Fat Ladies always talked about "receipts"

I must admit to thinking august body was a typo

It would be "augooste" in French (auguste)

Auguste as a name doesn't sound quite as silly as Augustus.

What a great thread!

Its a veritable magical mystery tour. August bodies, discreet notes, safe communication...

I know! I know! know!

We've time travelled back to 1939!

If there is any further communication from the August body (look at me casually using that in a sentence and everything!) then I expect it to come in the form of that French spy woman from Allo Allo. She will show up at your door and whisper "Listen very carefully I will say thees only once.."

lovelearning's precis made me snigger. Forget the Christmas Radio Times quiz, this is better!

I don't care what the letter means or what the "august body" is: who the fuck thinks the relationships of people IN THEIR 20s are any of their business?! So one of DC's friends is shagging an MP or a professor or something - so what? They're adults and it's their business and their problem. They're not 16-year-olds being groomed by their maths teacher FFS. Stop reading people's letters and stop infantilising adults. I know people who have full time jobs in managerial roles who are younger than 21. Just because your DC and their friends are (I assume) students it doesn't mean they're the same as school kids.

I read this thread at 8 am in the grip of a horrendous hangover and my brain hurt. Just came back to it now I'm a bit more lively and still makes no sense at all to me.

Oh dolly

Santa won't be going to Dolly's house, the grumpy girl!