ENGLAND 93: Blow harder! (There’s enough hot air in ENGLAND, isn’t there?)

Catherine is up extra-early for a solitary stint in Breakfast Club, as she is off to another show, and it’s a more civilised hour when Gusti and Tina arrive. Gusti enjoys the final day of her holiday, while Tina multi-tarts, and lazy Elb finally surfaces. Conversation turns to careers, and Gusti nervously anticipates a new project, Tina is off on a management course, and Elb decides that too much work is a bad thing....Euphemia tells how Life prevented her from going to Uni, while Tina wanted to study Theatre and Performing Arts...ENGLAND get wistful, but are jolted out of reminiscing when Elb reports that Catherine and Parker have done well, and are stuffing ice cream..... Elb decides it’s time for her hoover’s annual outing, Eeyore has trouble seeing Gerry, and Del’s Leaning Tower of Moleskine gets published.... Jo advises Eeyore to give Gerry’s 300 a rest, and ENGLAND wilt in the heat.

Elb grumbles that BabyElb is about to disturb her peaceful Sunday, and is obliged to endure an afternoon of wedding-dress hunting on HER computer! Euphemia issues an End of Thread alert, Eeyore and Del keep their cool and Gusti slaves over a hot computer sorting photos..... Jo plays poker with Gerry whilst musing over Dysoning, and Del decides to tackle the mammoth task of cleaning her desk! Tickled by Jo’s references re vacuuming, Euphemia reckons she’s a Dirty Devil Gusti is confoosed by Del’s Flickr, and Del prefers to stay incognito, and the end of thread 93 looms...............

Euphemia steams to the rescue and starts ENGLAND 94 - BritTarts finally open Chunnel from GB to GB.... which lets clamouring ENGLAND in from the scorchio heat of the Real World.... Ice lollies are dished out, and long-term absentee Gracie makes a welcome reappearance, feeling like a newbie, but soon gets her feet under the table again.... The Polar ice cap depletes rapidly as ENGLAND down ice pole after pole..... Catherine and Parker return early after a successful day at the show, and chargrilled Em has fun with Mikey Ball...... Eeyore splices DVDs, and twitchy Elb finally wrestles her computer back from BabyElb to catch up with ENGLAND, only for the site to crash yet again....... When everyone FINALLY gets back on, ENGLAND indulge in a mass-rant about connectivity, and Gracie explains her long absence as an addiction to Ant & Dec..... Regarding Gracie suspiciously, Elb uses the time offsite to compose a piece for her Other Blog - about her newfound addiction to Moleskines. ENGLAND give her a wide berth.... Gracie wants to pack up and travel in a lottery-funded Winnibego, and Tina mulls over the loss of her favourite TV shows....

Still beset by connection problems, Tina moonlights over at Tennant.com, while Del cheats over at Viggo Mortensen’s gaff. Eeyore does her toes, and Elb throws a hissy fit because she has forgotten that ‘Top Gear’ has returned after the World Cup..... Shortly after watching the remainder of her favourite TV programme, the site too throws a hissy fit and boots everyone off again. Sporadic posting resumes when the site allows - Catherine departs as she was on Very Early Breakfast Club Duty, and the Twins send a verbal postcard from Costa del West Country..... Del has hysterics over Top Gear, Eeyore posts the results of her afternoon’s handiwork, and Yorkie eventually chips through the block to get into ENGLAND. She has missed an entire thread, despite only being AWOL for a day.... Em is hot and sticky and has been poked by hot and sticky children all day - small wonder she “cannae be arsed” to go back and catch up! Hot and sticky Elb has been trying to catch up with TWO threads and blog them the while, and Yorkie has been supporting local causes by forcing herself to scoff sticky cake in the heat! Elb asks for technical help and gets it in the form of Goffiness, while Jo stomps off to dream of getting wet with ice cream.... Goffy gets another stripe, Em wants spots, and Eeyore’s private....Yorkie’s hubby takes her for a walk in the dark near water, but she runs away before he can give her a push.... She and Elb make plans to invade the Scots, Eeyore sulks about rank, and Em informs Team ENGLAND that friend Sarah is now a member of the Glitterati too! (And wasn’t warned about impending sparkles.....) Elb (after Goffy’s tech help) posts a link to a Doc Who/Green Day/Glitter ‘mash-up’ which gets Eeyore dancing.... Yorkie makes a stirring speech, but is Generally afraid of everything, bringing disrepute to her rank before she’s even taken it, and Els rushes in after being Bjorn Again at a picnic....Eeyore heads off to bed to ready herself for a day beside gorgeous Gareth, Yorkie faces her fears armed only with a piece of ham, and Elb ponders deep and meaningful questions before putting the thread to bed......