England hits 65 - another milestone in our rapidly ageing thread!

Elb beats Gusti and Catherine to it this morning and opens ENGLAND’s curtains to brilliant sunshine. Ronnie & Reggie are behaving, but she is in dire need of a caffeine hit. The BC three all agree that it is good news that G has the Trusty Tonya to assist him again..... . Gusti has her job interview today, but was late getting up and is nervous. Elb holds her thumb for Gusti, and Catherine dreads a long drive to a show tomorrow if Parker is well enough to attend. Catherine has lost more weight, but the others have gained - probably due to all the virtual breakfasts...

Del, Euphemia and Jo are in for elevenses and contemplate Chat, but decide they type too slowly... Louby does lunch, but fears she won’t make POTO in London as tickets are too dear. Catherine and Jo loiter, Jem es happy tiday and Laura reports in after a long absence, explained by her studies. Blu feels sick, and is not helped by Jo and Laura discussing chocolatey sex with ice cream!!

Miss Hyde adds her study tips to Jo and Laura’s earlier chat, and uses Mnemonics to remember why Mussolini invaded Abysinnia...... Teatime brings Catherine back in, and later still, Els who gleefully displays photos that she was trying NOT to be in.... She also displays a remarkable talent for amnesia, which may or may not have been exacerbated by quantities of falling-down juice. Elb blogs up to speed and joins Goffy online, having listened to 60s music all day, and now wants to be a hippy.....

Jo, off to babysit, leaves Elb and Catherine discussing the Kray twins - kidneys and the other ones - and how Parker came by his name. The Breakfast Club is reunited for dinner as Gusti reports back that her interview was not what she had hoped, but she is relaxed about it, as she is shortly to start a months’ holiday! Sparkle does a drive-by post as she is not feeling well and has had a dizzy spell, so she isn’t stopping...Elb nervously awaits the return of an itinerant Noodles with the door left open in a dodgy neighbourhood. Yorkie shows up early for a change, but then absconds to read back what she missed yesterday................

Cathy has been lurking mysteriously elsewhere, but pedals off to spend quality time with her exercise bike....Elb is already bouncing excitedly about the London meet-up, and hoorah! The cat returneth....... Gracie does yoga at full bloat, and Gusti exercises her brain by simply THINKING about exercise...Yorkie has got sidetracked by the Sturla Q&A link, and the mere thought of Gerry taking his clothes off sends her all-of-a-dither. She gamely types on, despite being stabbed in each arm with holiday hypodermics, and holds her toes in reserve in case the arms give out...
Catherine meanwhile bids an early farewell as she has to be up at 4.30am to drive to the show with the hopefully recovered Parker.

ENGLAND are getting duly excited about the forthcoming meet and indulge in a bounce-fest of cheery emoticons. Goffy however, is not a happy bunny as only part of the Sturla clip downloaded, leaving out the all-important Gerry-getting-his-kit-off bit....Gusti wants to do something terminal to her computer, as it won’t download the Sturla interview, and the ladies of ENGLAND launch into handbags-at-dawn over who Gerry is going to ‘entertain’ first, having been issued with multiple invitations to hotel rooms.....

Elb’s foo-kin cat tries typing, Cathy overdoes it on the trusty steed and Gusti dangles the prospect of fresh Tart into the thread. Berenise feels guilty about neglecting Jamie in favour of Big Brother, and wants to win her own raffle prize! Jo will hold the fort in ENGLAND when everyone is in London, but would rather join in....and Elb describes her neighbourhood as a ghetto, contrary to Yorkie’s illusion that Elb lives in a thatched cottage in rustic bliss. Gusti and Jo beat a hasty retreat as Jo has yet more campaigning to do to get up to 200 signatures on the petition by tomorrow....
Gracie, Goffy and Yorkie continue bickering over rights to Gerry, when secretly, Elb knows he’d choose her....Gracie has a rant over BB as did Berenise, but is interrupted by Delanie bearing cocoa and nibbles en route to her rendezvous with Jamie! Cathy too is leaving to enjoy a portion of Mr Fraser.....Del pauses to scold Gracie for implying Elb is a ghetto Ho’, and is sad because it is likely she WILL have to leave Scotland....

Yorkie threatens to visit Elb to investigate her surroundings.....Elb, alarmed, decides to move... Gracie has blurred vision, and needs to change her contact lenses, which prompts Yorkie to say that she is deaf until she put hers in... EH?? Finally, ENGLAND takes pity on Elb and retires for the night to leave her to finish the blog whilst munching on cheese and crackers.

Not wise before bedtime......