England 58 - Thursday 18th May 2006

Gusti kicks off Breakfast Club refreshed and raring to go! Tina - unheard of in the BC - pops in to say hi en route to the Post Office and work. Catherine is dreading the dog show today, as it is blowing a hooley and raining cats and well.....dogs! Elb is late arriving due to burning the midnight oil for ENGLAND's benefit. (Are you feeling guilty yet?) And so it is with a "Hi ho, hi ho!" that everyone goes off to work. Well - almost everyone... Yorkie pops in mid-morning in smug mode, rejoicing that group intimidation has forced Elb into reinstating the 'Abridged' blogette. Good news too that we may not after all, miss out on our favourite piccies, as there are alternative versions in the gallery still... Gracie bemoans the fact that she missed out on karaoke, but reminds us that "we are all connected..." By what? Insanity? She also admits to feeling a mite guilty, as she has read all previous posts, therefore negating the need for the Abridged blog!

Marsha arrives, singing "Winnie the Pooh" and offers her excuses for not attending festivities tonight...This appears to set a trend, as Goffy joins in with "Show Me the Way To Go Home..." has karaoke NOT finished after all?

SHOCK! HORROR!! Admin pops up to sternly tell us not to post comments about the Getty image ban.... ENGLAND stands rebuked.....

Catherine returns from the dog show to announce that Parker let the side down by being scared by a guy with a nail gun. So much for being a gun dog..... Berenise mentions having been slapped by Admin on the update thread, presumably for discussing the Getty ban. Euphemia waves hello from beneath the debris of Bathroom 2, and Dr. Gusti investigates Goffy's insomnia...

Goffy notices that Em, Elb and Delanie are all AWOL. While Berenise and Gusti are chatting about training at work, Cathy and Gracie appear. Cathy has been on a trip to London, and posts some great pics of Butler's Wharf, and Sparkle pops in to announce that she is to attend a dog's birthday party tomorrow........

Elb finally arrives, having been frantically multi-tarting with domestic and motherly duties. There are new pictures in the gallery, in which Gerry looks not surprisingly tired. Scrummy, but tired. ENGLAND celebrates the return of the Sexy Stubble and the Chest Hairs, while Goffy celebrates finding her missing phone in her knicker drawer! Conversation turns to how long everyone lurked on GB.net before posting, and ENGLAND reminisces about their early days as Tarts....Yorkie arrives in the middle of this to say that Evangelia has had to drop out of the POTO trip, and therefore there is a spare ticket. We return to our sentimental musings over our first posts, and come to the conclusion that the ENGLAND thread is the Bees Knees, the Dog's B... breakfast, but then Tina mentions she is going to watch the launch of this year's Big Brother, which sends Yorkie into a rant about talentless nobodies etc etc! Elb attempts to begin a conversation about what we would miss if ENGLAND was in the BB house, and Eeyore pops in to say she's feeling 'proper poorly'! Em has a new vid out called "Insatiable", but Em herself is nowhere to be found. Everyone else drops by the wayside as Yorkie and Elb talk about.... talking! - and then Jan mentions that Castle Howard in Yorkshire holds a Proms event in the summer, and how it would be a great Tart outing. She also drops the fact that she is going on yet ANOTHER holiday! Finally, the Paranoia Twins run out of steam, and it is time for bed...(said Zebedee...)