ENGLAND 58 - Thank God it’s Friday!

Gusti is up early in rainy Vienna, and is shortly joined by Elb and Catherine who have both been bothered by wind overnight. Weather reporting over and done with, (what else did you think I meant?) Gusti says that the ex-colleague she visited the other day was so inspired by her that he has booked a longed-for trip! The BC trio agree that GB.net has got them all motivated to do things, and conversation returns to the prospect of another Tart get-together after London. Later, Miss Magdalena posts from college, and berates Mum Euphemia for feeding the cat with curry.... Mid-morning, Gracie pops in to apologise unneccessarily for leaving ENGLAND last night, but got sidetracked by Real Life. The next Tart gathering idea gains pace when Berenise says that she’d like to go to Castle Howard but couldn’t make the date in mind, as it’s hubby’s 40th, and he may be unwilling to come on yet ANOTHER GB trip....

Elb appears at lunchtime, having skived off work to come and play at GB.net instead! She and Catherine spend time plotting more Tart Adventures... and Catherine confesses she hasn’t yet got to grips with the Other Hot Scot in ENGLAND’s lives, Jamie. Euphemia on the other hand has to put him down to rejoin the thread for a break! Goffy and Em enter the fray; Goffy has managed to actually sleep, and Em is on the road to recovery aided by L.O.V.E, but has been absent from the thread due to an uncooperative laptop. (Or so she says!) Euphemia confesses to a Senior Moment in which she finds her purse and keys in the fridge, having thought she had lost them, and Em says she has four months’ break from University! There follows a bizarre conversation about face-painting and camels called Jerry, followed by Gerry-wrangling and junk food! Sparkle whips in to comment on how welcomed she felt when she first posted, and whizzes off again. Back on the topic of food, Catherine announces that she will eat her chocolates speedily, so she can get back on her diet quicker....Back again, Sparkle posts a pic of the doggie whose birthday party she attended today, which launches a flurry of pet photos until Goffy throws a wolf to ENGLAND - a Beo-wulf! And picspam begins again... Yorkie arrives at the arse-end of the thread, and home alone, suggests a Fancy Dress party - Gerry themed of course! Everyone suddenly finds other places to be......

Elb, in a panic calls for someone to start a new thread, but the silence is deafening, so she goes ahead with one she prepared earlier, in the event of such an emergency. And so begins “ENGLAND’S 59TH - Nearing pensionable age....”
Which verra nearly collides with one that Catherine was about to post....
Berenise, on seeing the shirtless pic of Marek that Elb had posted as a welcome to 59, admits that she has never seen Timeline, shock horror!

After only four pages, the thread runs out of steam, as folk are probably off watching Big Brother and Green Wing, so Elb goes to shut the thread down for the night, but finds that Laura has posted after going to see Take That in concert - and got to see her idol, Gary Barlow! Little Em, Berenise and Euphemia are the last up, but all are lured to bed by Jamie Fraser, and ENGLAND falls silent.....