Chateau Diaries #56 Trotter's hole in the wall or Chateau cashpoint?

[BlackWolf]

He has a brother, who created a family scandal by leaving his wife (who was very loved in the family) with their young children for 'a young trollop' (not my words).

Sad, but c'est la vie, said the old folks

 

[ComtesseRose]

It might be that she's not very demanding in the bedroom, so his duties there don't take too much effort

Is "true love" a code word for Findom/Dominatrix? As much as I will believe they are a couple, I just can't see Phillys as a top - he may be a soft and femme top, but hey that's on me.
Maybe their relationship is like the movie "The Duke of Burgundy". If you've seen the movie, you just know what I mean...

 

[Jeeves]

That doesn't sound too bad, in fact, I rather like it. Those qualities would make a well functioning human.

The important thing here is that many individuals with Aspergers are exactly that, well functioning human beings. There are areas, particularly social communication deficit, where they find life more challenging however many learn to adjust to a neurotypical world. Hanni has clearly done that in her professional life but unfortunately life at Lalande is unusual to say the least and so she struggles to adapt to that "new norm".

 

[toilingwiththetoile]

Maybe that's why Ian's progress has been so slow. He's been fixing everything ready for Amaury in the boudoir?

I feel for these tradespeople that work on that farmhouse. Filmed at every bit of plaster or insulation baging - where did she find all these Ian's? The poor man plastering a bloody wall in a loo being told it is aamazing - he looked bemused - for the world to see. That is my point - whatever work they are undertaking is being documented - probably why viewers get to see so little of the work ( DIY show excluded) - God bless Selmar , he gives us the wibbly moments. Wonder how he is going parked in a mice field?

 

[Phoenix Richards-Bingham]

Back in the day from when we had good Aussie comedies. I used to laugh so hard watching Kath and Kel dance on "Kath n Kim". I dont laugh watching Selma it's more cringe, thanks for the memories

I was just wondering last night where you might be! We hadn't seen you in so long!

 

[MojoDublin]

maybe a % of the take. she does have all those rubes who think she has style and class *pukes*

Can only imagine the 80 horror fashion SSB will pull from the trunks 🩲 - if not be completely overdressed for opera on the lawn

or
Inappropriately dressed - it fortuny
Fabric …. Snorts found it at a bric-à-brac…. It’s vintage

 

[toilingwiththetoile]

Fanny is trying to buy her way in to the upper echelons. All that talk about de Gournay wallpapers, attending auctions, all posh things toffs do. She'll do anything to be associated with or even be in the same room with them. An old story really, they'll accept her money but she'll never be one of them. You can't buy class.

Well said Bravo! It was clear when she attended with Fillip a lunch - was it the Chateau Love peeps? They posted a vlog of the afternoon and the pair of them looked like fish out of water. There was nobody to fawn over them, the filming was out of their hands and they looked like the plus two, who nobody was interested in. It was VERY revealing.

Back in the day from when we had good Aussie comedies. I used to laugh so hard watching Kath and Kel dance on "Kath n Kim". I dont laugh watching Selma it's more cringe, thanks for the memories

Yes back then, comedians came through Uni together and had such wicked humour!

Can only imagine the 80 horror fashion SSB will pull from the trunks 🩲 - if not be completely overdressed for opera on the lawn

or
Inappropriately dressed - it fortuny
Fabric …. Snorts found it at a bric-à-brac…. It’s vintage

Yep that vlog from - sorry maybe Chateau Love showed their style or lack of it up so well...

 

[MojoDublin]

Gerry is back driving his taxi.
From the live chat...
Gerald Grady No @Vivphotography, Stephanie, Philip and I Flew into London Stansted, my Taxi was at the airport, I drove them to Heathrow ( I didn’t charge them )
Gerald Grady I know DeAnn, but I think Stephanie building my apartment at the Chateau, covers it
Gerald Grady I picked up Someone, that Stephanie was at School with. ((Lucy watching chateau diaries, she sends her Love, she is so proud of you).
Neil Hartley @the Chateau Diaries and @Gerald Grady you know you've made it, when you're big in Framlingham!
The Chateau Diaries @Gerald Grady Oh how lovely!

Heathrow - Kk dublin is safe

that means ( yes I’m on page 26 )
It’s Bahamas or Mexico

she must be spitting with big mouth Gerry … this was defo Pre planning
Weeks of it … not last minute

 

[Milre]

Oh that carpet cleaning makes me feel sick….how can they even consider keeping it…..how much more filth can be added to the place?

Auction add: carpet, 4mx5m, light yellow, old, fading decor, fringes missing, evenly distributed stains, dog smell, dog belonged to Marie Antoinette, € 12000
Steph :I'll take it.

 

[chillijam]

Wow, what an interesting few days!
My take on porno-gate: hmmm. Pass.
The wholeChristie she-bang? Likely to be underwhelming, particularly if she insists on involving her poodle. She will probably just crap on about bloody toile and such, and make another nightmare of clashing colours and patterns. Hey ho. In the meantime probably swanning around in Bermuda feeling oh-so-important.
Hanni - I like her, but can't see the attraction of lalaland for her. She seems to be genuinely hard working and gives to (real) charities, both financially and with her time, so this is a bit of an anomaly I think. Curious.
Dan is obviously knocking it out of the park with his work and filming, showing them all up basically. Go Dan! Kirsty is great too, and clever at remaining outside .
Lastly Armoury (sp?). Disappointed to hear from Clara that he is under the spell as well, he seems ok up front, so that's sad. I thought finally a real person, and easy on the eye and ear too. No screeching or snorting or mumbling. Oh well.
And on we go ......

 

[toilingwiththetoile]

Gerry is back driving his taxi.
From the live chat...
Gerald Grady No @Vivphotography, Stephanie, Philip and I Flew into London Stansted, my Taxi was at the airport, I drove them to Heathrow ( I didn’t charge them )
Gerald Grady I know DeAnn, but I think Stephanie building my apartment at the Chateau, covers it
Gerald Grady I picked up Someone, that Stephanie was at School with. ((Lucy watching chateau diaries, she sends her Love, she is so proud of you).
Neil Hartley @the Chateau Diaries and @Gerald Grady you know you've made it, when you're big in Framlingham!
The Chateau Diaries @Gerald Grady Oh how lovely!

You are a genius - I saw part of this chat re the friend etc but missed the other bit - so Gerry has bloody left too -Heathrow - international baby - off to sunny days!

Wow, what an interesting few days!
My take on porno-gate: hmmm. Pass.
The wholeChristie she-bang? Likely to be underwhelming, particularly if she insists on involving her poodle. She will probably just crap on about bloody toile and such, and make another nightmare of clashing colours and patterns. Hey ho. In the meantime probably swanning around in Bermuda feeling oh-so-important.
Hanni - I like her, but can't see the attraction of lalaland for her. She seems to be genuinely hard working and gives to (real) charities, both financially and with her time, so this is a bit of an anomaly I think. Curious.
Dan is obviously knocking it out of the park with his work and filming, showing them all up basically. Go Dan! Kirsty is great too, and clever at remaining outside .
Lastly Armoury (sp?). Disappointed to hear from Clara that he is under the spell as well, he seems ok up front, so that's sad. I thought finally a real person, and easy on the eye and ear too. No screeching or snorting or mumbling. Oh well.
And on we go ......

Welcome back! Loved the recap!

 

[BlackWolf]

Well said Bravo! It was clear when she attended with Fillip a lunch - was it the Chateau Love peeps? They posted a vlog of the afternoon and the pair of them looked like fish out of water. There was nobody to fawn over them, the filming was out of their hands and they looked like the plus two, who nobody was interested in. It was VERY revealing.

Are you saying they looked like normal people? I am shocked. But, I jest.

Here's the thing - aristocrats don't stand around dropping brand names, they may mention it in an off-hand way "Oh, I think the wallpaper is some of that French stuff, but you'd have to speak to the trade fellow who hung it. JEEVES, WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU? Oh, there you are. Now be a good fellow and give Lady Bigjugs here the card for that blasted wallpaper fellow, y'know, the one who knows all the brands. There you are, m'dear"

You see, it's the tradespeople know and talk the details, the aristocrats instinctively know the class when they see it, the rest aspire to it.

 

[toilingwiththetoile]

Are you saying they looked like normal people? I am shocked. But, I jest.

Here's the thing - aristocrats don't stand around dropping brand names, they may mention it in an off-hand way "Oh, I think the wallpaper is some of that French stuff, but you'd have to speak to the trade fellow who hung it. JEEVES, WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU? Oh, there you are. Now be a good fellow and give Lady Bigjugs here the card for that blasted wallpaper fellow, y'know, the one who knows all the brands. There you are, m'dear"

You see, it's the tradespeople know and talk the details, the aristocrats instinctively know the class when they see it, the rest aspire to it.

Oh yes..it is the difference between serving a business class passenger and First Class one - one grabs all they can and makes a fuss - the other SLEEPS LOL

 

[Jeeves]

Are you saying they looked like normal people? I am shocked. But, I jest.

Here's the thing - aristocrats don't stand around dropping brand names, they may mention it in an off-hand way "Oh, I think the wallpaper is some of that French stuff, but you'd have to speak to the trade fellow who hung it. JEEVES, WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU? Oh, there you are. Now be a good fellow and give Lady Bigjugs here the card for that blasted wallpaper fellow, y'know, the one who knows all the brands. There you are, m'dear"

You see, it's the tradespeople know and talk the details, the aristocrats instinctively know the class when they see it, the rest aspire to it.

You rang, M'Lord?

 

[notanangel]

I cannot get $1.00 to work in Patreon but could get the number to $.10 …. I wonder if it would go through or if I would receive notification that it did not meet the required minimum?

 

[lavenexiana]

So, can we then guess Christies has another earlier auction that she wants to travel to the States for and plans to spend money at, and she pre-greased that by proposing the Tastemakers as as follow up after the auction? Why would she spend money to get to be the tastemaker if she wasn’t scoring some objects?

Did she spend money to be a tastemaker? NOT POSSIBLE
Did she find the way to propose herself as a tastemaker? POSSIBLE
Christie is not the brocante near the corner.
We like it or not they have an international reputation to defend.
They had important issues (and still are in..)to defend themselves
Not surely such a low profile matter..

 

[QuebecQueen]

where?!?

I found it


can someone please do a highrez screen grab of Stefanies laptop that Curtis filmed - I want to see what she's got open.

 

[Seeingitasitis]

the way you put it sounds already complex to me..bi persons are never sure..when they date a man..they fantasise about a woman..and vice versa...i quit the bi men..they made me crazy...always the doubt...the drama..too complicated...

That I can understand. But he is still in the first flush of love for Steph. Maybe later, he will want a male relationship. I think she is quite pragmatic but I don't know much about narcs. Do they mind if they have themselves lost interest in the physical side as well?

That bottle of Bollinger that Hanni gave Stephanie comes up as $284.99 I think it was US funds. Certainly a thoughtful gift given she made sure it was the year the Chateau was purchased.
On that note I was also inspired to look up Pétrus I was shocked to find that there are two bottles in my province one is around $4200 and the other a bargain at around $3700. I wonder if that was a shoutout to see if she would get sent some. She certainly mentioned it enough at the wine tasting at the winery.

My goodness, that was a thoughtful gift. Hanni is obviously v wealthy. I am shocked about her hinting for even more. I think she gets a lot of expensive gifts anyway and writes personal thank you notes. The stuff she gets sent is ridiculous. She was sent a lot of very expensive champagne, gin, wines, fine foods and toiletries. I have no doubt that these sort of gifts have not dried up, but she has decided it is too unseemly to have those items paraded on the vlog.

 

[QuebecQueen]

Did she spend money to be a tastemaker? NOT POSSIBLE
Did she find the way to propose herself as a tastemaker? POSSIBLE
Christie is not the brocante near the corner.
We like it or not they have an international reputation to defend.
They had important issues (and still are in..)to defend themselves
Not surely such a low profile matter..

I think someone just likes her and watches the vlogs, and thought, this is a great way to boost the 'coolness' of the auction?

 

[Jeeves]

Sweet Arfarf, I adore ya! I think it's a mole

How lucky that her recently acquired moles are so symmetrical. What are the odds of matching moles on each cheek?