ENGLAND 80 going on 81.........

Grateful that ENGLAND stayed in one thread last night, Elb nips in with Catherine hard on her heels and Euphemia not far behind, worrying about just about everything! Elb gets stroppy about being Web Mummy, as she’s the youngest of ENGLAND’s early morning coven....Kelli pops in for a TransAtlantic rant which she promptly deletes, and Tina joins the Worriers, wondering if Team ENGLAND will succeed in securing their places tomorrow.... Daft announces the sad demise of Dennis, and ENGLAND mourn, for he has ceased to be.....Elb is paranoid about the anonymity of Worriers Anonymous, and orders B&G from Amazon to take her mind off worrying...Jo notes that DebiDM has made a post about tomorrow’s announcement and ENGLAND start worrying afresh....Daft thanks ENGLAND for their sympathy and fantasises about defrocking priests, Eeyore joins Worriers Not-So-Anonymous, and Els is being driven nuts by speculation about ‘Priest’, while Breila spits tea over Erik. Del crashes in from Gleneagles and is off to meet Gusti later....

Em and Eeyore do lunch, while Blu is insane with excitement at having a freezer, and Goffy empathises..... Jo joins her for afternoon tea, and worries about no notifications, but Catherine explains that Spam is the answer to it all....Em’s glad her friend is on the road to recovery, and Elb arrives at the end of today’s posts to find nobody at home..... A while later, Sparkle creeps in feeling low and in need of a hug, then Miss Hyde jumps aboard ENGLAND and she and Elb play Pirates.....and Catherine is in need of Strange(r) love, but can’t decide how much luggage she’ll need....Eeyore too is down, as Baker Boy is a no-go area, and she is chairless. Elb offers unsolicited advice to poor cyberkid, and tells Catherine to travel light in Glasgow. There is good news about Catherine’s sister, who is merely anaemic, but Euphemia suffers a ‘fatal error’ which doesn’t bode well for tomorrow’s ConWatch.... Tina absconds from work to take up position in the Team ENGLAND trenches, and The Breakfast Coven agree on Elb’s theory of How To Get A Man..... Elb basks in Goffy’s praise for the blog, and hides online so someone else will start the new thread.... Els is sad for her bro’s bust-up, but glad that he’ll be with the family again, and she and Catherine do battle for the honour of ThreadStarting....

Catherine wins, and posts up ‘ENGLAND reaches 81 - or is it 18?’, and Goffy gets over-excited and does a Gerry-stutter, posting Elb’s favourite picture not once, not twice, but THREE times! Tina regards Team ENGLAND as a modern-day Dad’s Army, and Barbs too appreciates the finer points of Abridged....She also raises the issue of August Tarting About.... Loubylou is also suffering from the PC gremlins.... is it a virus spread by overseas Tarts, so Team ENGLAND will lose out in the rush for tickets? Jo and Catherine head off to watch Dear Frankie on Sky, Em is aghast at another thread, and Daft wishes ENGLAND luck tomorrow in the scramble for tickets. Cathy can hear again, and inspired by Tina’s comment about military operations, Elb makes a stirring Churchillian speech about Team ENGLAND fighting on the internet.... Em sings the theme from “Dad’s Army” and alludes to non-PG13 goings-on on the Home Front.... Goffy is the crazy cousin, Eeyore is the Spiv, and Elb rushes around a la Corporal Jones.... Elb then gets another call from Gusti who is sitting in the Corinthian Hotel with Delanie, where Lizzie met The Stranger! She has also been to the ‘Dear Frankie’ beach!

Cathy, motivated by Elb’s rousing address, leaps on her exercise bike and pedals for ENGLAND, Goffy is full of bravado (and something else), and Eeyore buys Jo Malone..... Breila escapes from Real Life and joins the BritTarts to tell Barbs what everyone wants from Jo Malone’s, while Sparkle returns from yoga and kink-ironing, and wonders if power has gone to Elb’s head...Elb is Lost in Translation, and Els reappears to apologise for being AWOL, but is on Bro Cheer-Up duty. Catherine is all warm and snuggly post-Dear Frankie, and wants to follow in Gusti’s footsteps, but is having a camel sort of day.....ENGLAND have a stab at translating the German that Gusti sent Elb but to no avail, and Del checks in after having a marathon chinwag with Gusti..... Breila gets starry-eyed over Nutmeg & Ginger, and Elb goes for a rendezvous with Sweaty Sawyer... Del posts pics from around Glasgow then joins the masses getting Lost, while Eeyore, Breila and Jo talk smells, and long-lost Yorkie zaps back online after her son performs miracles! Snow arrives late, as usual, and Jo and Goffy reckon Debi has booked Celtic Football Club for TartCon2.....Elb is uber-ecstatic to see Yorkie online again, and ENGLAND is treated to a triple Gergasm! Snow needs an Elb dictionary, was confoosed and confooses Jo, and Elb is just easily confoosed..... Goffy studies Mormonism and explains a little to Team ENGLAND, while Yorkie fears the Curse of Elb and she and Elb Gergasm again......Coffee is laid on for the late-nighters again, and Yorkie holds her hand up to being a sinner..... Goffy and Elb are candidates for a lightning strike, but reckon it’s more fun! Elb has trouble with images again, and Snow has trouble with her end.... She is sad not to be going to Glasgow, and gets lumbered with doggy-sitting, while Yorkie is amazed at the distances some are prepared to travel for the Con..... Snow shoots off to despatch her brave guys to a house fire, and Elb takes the opportunity to close ENGLAND down for the night, leaving a link to the Gerry Fan Dictionary for Snow when she gets back.....

Elb makes a hasty exit before anyone else comes online.......