Quiet room...

[dulwichmum]

Wafts into quiet room, looking simply stunning.

Can I offer anyone a drink?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

My, you do look gorgeous. Anything with bubbles please.

[Mrs Y]

shhh

children sleeping!!!!

[dulwichmum]

"Why Peckhamgatecrasher darling, how very kind of you to say so!"

*Opens enormous bottle of Krug and pours it into Champagne glass.*

"Can I pour some on your cornflakes too?"

[Michael Palaeologus]

*Pops in from internet cafe in fishing harbour of gloriously sunny village on Lesbos*

"Yassoo! Cafe Frappe and an Ouzo anybody? Goes quite nicely as a Krug chaser I find"

*Wanders out onto the balcony to find sunshine and brightly coloured fishing boats bobbing on a turqoise Aegean*

"DM, may I say, you look simply stunned"

*Time for a little more mono-chrome photo-pootling amidst the ancient Greeks. Exits stage left*

[SteveT]

Do not crease the Greecy photos

[dulwichmum]

"Oh Michael darling, I was missing you so very much indeed. Come and sit down a while, tell me about your travels..."

[jumpinjackflash]

and while your showing Dulwichma your pics, pass us that tub of taramasalata

[dulwichmum]

Indeed, come on, pass them over...

Do you have any olives about your person?

[Guest]

...or are you just pleased to see us? Hang on, that's not quite right.

[SteveT]

It's near enough to make me smile Ms B.

[Moos]

Any of that Krug left, DM?

*sits cross-legged on rug resting head on sofa*

[dulwichmum]

Darling Moos,

If you lean your head back, I can pour it straight in! I need a drink tonight, there are such vile and rude threads in progress out in the main forum. Shame on the lot of them I say!

[Moos]

*unsticks head from rug*

Wha'?

[KalamityKel]

Moos y on earth do u have a cluster of cheerios stuck to ur face? Where did those come from?

[Moos]

That's not Cheerios, I have bad skin. :-$

[SteveT]

You, dear Moos, have the skin of a seraph;-)

[dulwichmum]

Moos darling,

There is an extreme version of Lesley Lille Green's beauty salon newly opened on Croxted Road, West Dulwich. You can get yourself botoxed up and chemical peeled, you will have the skin of a vestal virgin...

In the mean-time here, let me pour you a drink.

Chablis?

[Moos]

*Enter Moos with sandpapered skin*

*Quiet Room residents feel sudden and disturbing urge to have a steak tartare*

Do I look ten years younger? They took an inch off!

[Michael Palaeologus]

Hmm, try this Tatziki Moos, it has both Greek Yoghurt and cucumber in it and is bound to be good for the skin. In the meantime, could you turn the light off, you are illuminating the QR quite well by yourself.

DM darling, how I long to take you on a long night time trip in a small Greek fishing boat, the moonlight, the stars .... will aid you as your repair the nets and help me haul in a net full of mackerel and lobster pots, not to mention gutting the fish and chopping up the octopus. You have the hands for it.

Back to the pool !!

[Moos]

Ah, the Quiet Room pool, a cool bathe will soothe my poor lacerated face.

*big splosh*

Aaaaargh! Salt water!!

[KalamityKel]

That's not the quiet room pool u've erm... "sploshed" into... :-S

*looks round room for place to stretch out and relax*

[Moos]

Heavens, what was it then? Once my poor face recovered from those Butchers - cruel Butchers, I tell you - I thought a nice rocky salt-water pool with waterfall, small beach and some pretty fish was a great addition to the Quiet Room.

Why not stretch out on this sandy patch over here?

*chucks tube Factor 30 at Kalam*

[KalamityKel]

Nothing but factor 40 for me (at least) moos dear I'm afraid...

*passes the rum around*

[Moos]

*pops a sparkly toothpicky thing and a paper umbrella into Kalam's drink*

And here's some Factor 50 I nicked from my son. Sheesh..