Quiet room...

[Michael Palaeologus]

"Ita" is a typo, bless her, much like Dekkert is a replicant but doesnt know it.

The presents are for ME - gerroff.

[dulwichmum]

Oh Michael, I require something small and sparkley - you can have the large boxes, I really don't mind. There are good goods in small parcels!

[Michael Palaeologus]

Here you are ..

http://www.auntyanimal.me.uk/MyLittlePonySparkle.jpg

Small and sparkley

[dulwichmum]

Lovely Michael, and all the lovely forumites,

I have to say what a great year this has been because of this forum and also because of you my great forumite chums. I cannot tell you all how much I have enjoyed your company and sense of humour this year. I think that Mark should be Prime Minister (sniff)...

Here is your gift Michael -

http://www.blackyak.co.uk/images/products/scarves/Socks%20rainbow%20400.jpg

[dulwichmum]

Staggers into quiet room and flops into favourite chair by the window.

Thinks to self "Gosh I spent rather too much time with mother over the Christmas break!"

Reaches down into pocket of white jeans and finds...

http://www.aquinasandmore.com/images/items/55390lg.jpg

[citizenED]

Coughs.

Splutters.

*do they have Lemsip on tap in here?*

[dulwichmum]

Have you tried Beechams Hot Berry Plus for flue? It is simply divine. I like mine in a big mug by the fire. Here, have this one...

[PeckhamRose]

/me walks in and sits down.

Asks: Is this a cyber room? I don't do cyber!

[citizenED]

coughs. gasps. gurgles.

*sorry, quiet room; please forgive my burning throat*

*takes the Hot Berry elixir proffered by DM - cheers!*

*(especially for the extra shot of Rum)*

*looks over at PeckhamRose - don't know about cyber, petal, but have a blooming cyder*

*

[dulwichmum]

Texts Father O'Connor for urgent advice - I am so very terrified that the talk in here will become base and thus cause local property values to plummet... Drinks entire bottle of Rescue Remedy to calm the situation.

[citizenED]

*surveys plentiful buffet set out lavishly in QR*

*eyes the Pigs Head, the Champers and the lowly fig rolls*

*wonders where everyone is for the traditional New Years Day festivities*

*.............well traditions have to start somewhere*

[dulwichmum]

I am here - lying under the armchair, that Rescue Remedy - it is lethal!

[citizenED]

*wondered who's feet they were, sticking out from under there*

*those Blahniks should have given it away*

[dulwichmum]

One can carry a couple of extra pounds at Christmas time and still fit into great shoes darling!

[Michael Palaeologus]

*Shuffles in, frankly cream crackered. New Years in Berlin is anarchic in the extreme. Only dont get drawn into an "organised" event - disappointingly ... organised. Still, the late night walk through the streets would have been familiar to General Zukhov and the Red Army circa 1945. Great fun that bit*

*Its a cold winters evening, so produces a large steaming vat of Gluwein, a yummy sticky Stollen, home made ginger bread cookies and some foaming Steins of Schwartzerbier*

*Anybody? Its the Quiet Roon and real world NY resolutions and physical frailties do not apply*

[dulwichmum]

Please don't tantalise me dear heart, I am on a diet and I am completely ravenous!

James just found me standing beside Freyas bed, watching the portly poppet sleep - with two slices of buttered bread and a bottle of ketchup in my hands... Yum!

[Michael Palaeologus]

"The portly poppet" ?? The poor child will grow up metally scarred.

*Picks up the phone and calls the Social*

*In the meantime - have a slice of stollen - it is of a no-calorie variety as is the gluwein and bier - the wonders of the Quiet Room*

[dulwichmum]

Please don't tantalise me sooo sweetie, or I shall be back up those stairs...

[lozzyloz]

*Enters room and immediately trips over discarded hod*

*Sighs at how the room has fallen into disrepair and sneezes as dust gets up his nose*

*The sound echoes around the desolate darkness*

"Is anybody here?. . . here . . . here . . . here"

*Helps self to a cold glass of Gluwein, removes German porno DVD's from armchair and sits back and reads very thin issue of What's on in Camberwell*

[citizenED]

*darts in, with head down*

*hiya Lozzy, you came in to escape the brickbats out there?*

*and the grenades*

*I'll join you in a galss of Gluwein if you don't mind*

*don't worry, it'll calm down at the weekend*

[Michael Palaeologus]

DM!! Look at the mess in here - where is Anna? I know that she is now about 18 months pregnant, but really.

*Picks up mouldy german cake and drops it in bin - waves cheerily at Lozzyloz before collecting German porn DVDs and slipping them behind the bookcase*

*Walks to bar and pours self a pint of Banks Mild Ale, at least in the Quiet Room I can have a January pint*

[mockney piers]

* materialises by MPs side *

* nods appreciatively and takes virtual pint of cold, sparkling, refreshing lager *

* takes llooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggg draught of said elixir *

AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh.

* slowly but surely melts back into the ether *

[lozzyloz]

*Klinks glass with MP and citizen ED*

*Attempts to do same with Mockney but he suddenly vaporises*

"Oh well. Cheers!"

*Dust's off one of Jah's Gladiators CD's and inserts into Libra's sound system*

*Watches with amusement as MP and citizen ED start skanking*

*Hopes DM doesn't complain about the noise*

[Michael Palaeologus]

*DM-Dread loves a bit of reggae and is often to be seen with large lumpy one dangling from her bottom lip*

*Pours self a large G&T - it is SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH a long time before the end of the month*

*Waves at CitizenED - didnt see you there before dear boy*

[citizenED]

*don't worry Lozzy, I skank in appropriately muffled manner*