The Chateau Diaries #12 Carry on grifting

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apparently SSB and sir trotter are only thick skinned whilst receiving money

throws a whole different view to last
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It was on booking.com and is rather conveniently located if you're traveling to the south of France, for an overnight stay, especially for people coming from the UK.
 
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A Donegal summary for newbies.

LaLande is a chateau in France,
Which patrons pay to enhance.
But the chatelaine is feckless,
And with the money quite reckless.
She prefers to party and dance.
 
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Thundering applause I’ve been here from the beginning and read avidly, even if I’m not always commenting. That’s a really informative synopsis for newbies here. Anyone could join in from reading that, although I agree with you that it’s worth going back to the beginning for all the details. Treat it like a blockbuster !

Oooo interesting... thanks for the glossary . Always love a re-cap and it makes me laugh just reading that Would you kindly add my Floral Roadkill (FRK / RK) for Marie Wilkes, if deemed worthy as she’s often discussed and majority here not appreciative of her dreadful uninspired milk bottle arrangements

Yes quite. Missing him for contribution

Oh yes AND she currently has 50% of LaLaLande in addition to the London flat and all the future inheritances.
This woman is proper loaded.
Exactly .... It always comes back to my original question at the start of these threads .... ‘why would anyone give anything to a woman who has SO MUCH ?’ ...... we still haven’t worked this out !

Behind closed doors That’s exactly what the Marquis of Bath’s (Weymouth ?) did with his fathers erotic orgy pictures. He of the 73 ‘wifelets’
 
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@frenchessence


tattle glossary

CD - The Chateau Diaries
BJJ - Baby Jesus Jeans, aka Philip
PP (Nostril of Lalande) - Prince Philip
UH - Uriah Heep - Philip
LOTL/LOTLL - Lady of the (Lost) Lake, aka Stephanie
SSB- She Who Shouts from the balcony SJ
QBC- Queen of bed chambers SJ
MB - Madame Boneyparts SJ
SJ - Stephanie Jarvis
MMAF - Mad Man's Arse Face, i.e. mummy
Mini Apron - Isabel
Nitti/Nutty - Nati
Floral Roadkill (FRK / RK) Marie Wilkes
MP/MP2 - Michael Petherick
MPK - Michael Petherick (sir Trotter)
Trotter - any Petherick family reference
Ma Trotter - Sheree Petherick
Dear Brenda/BG - Brenda Gibbons (superfan/Facebook admin) from Donegal Ireland
Karen Cbomb - other superfan/admin, Canada
Donegals - limericks (renamed in honour of Dear Brenda)
Potty/MP - Michael Potts
Cinder-Ruth- MPotts current squeeze
Agents - Tattlers who find out juicy background info
Chat O (or variations) - Chateau (how Brenda says it)
“BuyMeACoffee” - give me money (no, really, give me money, I really need it)
MBNS;GF - more boring narc stuff; gimme facts

Flat 34B - bolt hole SJ
HNW - heap in the middle of nowhere

PSDFHB - princess shouting down from her balcony
PRSDBP - princess in her robe shouting down from her balcony at the peasants

Wet Blanket - Fun hoover
Mickey Dodger - Woman who avoids sexual encounters
Edmund Fokker van Crayestein - Former main squeeze of SJ

Thanks to @Rory for the SSB Main Squeeze Glossary:

1. Gregory Mason Clark - Husband and boyfriend, on and off at uni. SJ approx 18
2. Nic Larkin - apparently just friends at uni (but also dated according to CB?)
3. Married Husband 22-24???
4. Michael Potts met through Oliver Strong on and off 10 years. Open relationship in the end. Buys Chateau during relationship age 29.
5. Edmond Fokker van Craayenstein (player in tight trousers who pretends to be an aristocrat-BF with guy who said "let the 80 years-olds die off")
6. Mason Dwinell on and off (last we heard he is still staring at the sun?)
7. Ludwig Norweigner (otherwise known as Nordic Weirdo, alcoholic friend unceremoniously dumped at the train station without a ticket)
8. James Jardine (turned out to be "too much" for the girl who never has enough)
9. Various volunteers ad nauseum (bread oven guy Walton etc.)
10. BJJ (any port in a storm, eh Stephanie?)
 
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Clara ! What amazing ‘Bricks & Mortar’ Info . Good grief .... the wealth of Stephanie and her direct family. Shocked to learn there is even MORE money there. Even if they have sold granny’s pad , there would be extra funds to be distributed. AND Mini apron had yet ANOTHER holiday home .... They kept that one quiet. it’s unbelievable.
 
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Not sure about granny's pad. I know she went to a home in her last years, so it might already have been sold.
 
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About the two apartments.
Didn't she recieve one from her parents, they bought it with the money they were going to use for her to go to private school, but she wanted to go with her friends at the not-private school (Public school? or is public school something else in Britain). Which is the one she sold(?)
Then I think her father purchased another flat for her - don't know where I heard it, or if it is even true, but that's how it make sense in my head...
 
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Something someone said here - I'd quote it but lost it now - triggered a sad thought. It was about SJ being able to celebrate Christmas with so many people, and always be surrounded by people which is how she says she wants to live. Money enables that. People are drawn to success.

And she is using that lifestyle to receive money from some people who are lonely and isolated during the pandemic. Who have to stay away from family and friends, or who don't have family and friends.

So these people who aren't fully happy right now are paying her to live the happy life she wants to live. (Assuming giving isn't entirely about chateau renovation.) Interesting.

Huh, and here I was thinking all along, she got a flat the way many of us would: by working a job and paying for it. How naive I am! LOL
 
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Fabulous work, well done.

Your turn for Cocktails @MojoDublin
And treat yourself to a spin in the DB9, beep beep, you know where the keys are!
 
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Who knows about UK tax and can explain gift and inheritance tax to us? (In Enid Blyton speak) Can you just be given assets without tax implications!!
 
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A Donegal summary for newbies.

LaLande is a chateau in France,
Which patrons pay to enhance.
But the chatelaine is feckless,
And with the money quite reckless.
She prefers to party and dance.
@ggyahoo I recognise you and your amazing way with words - so pleased you haven't abandoned us

Michael Petherick's vlog certainly sent a lot of new traffic in this direction - I'm getting loads of notifications of people working their way through and liking things in our first two or three threads. It's probably going to take them a few days to get to #12 though but welcome to you all when you finally make it!
 
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Who knows about UK tax and can explain gift and inheritance tax to us? (In Enid Blyton speak) Can you just be given assets without tax implications!!
Hello New Member here ... I've been watching CD for some time, since ETTCDIY...after reading through most of the threads here I feel like I have found my people....all my concerns and wondering if gift accepting from strangers is normal had me worried I'd been living my life by the wrong set of morals, this site has conforted me with the realisation I'm not alone at being sickened by the false appreciation for, on occasion, rather weird stuff.

As for UK inheritance tax, I'm no expert but thought this was around 40%?
 
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This is ridiculous Imo , have you never visited an art gallery ? nudes have been in art for all time ! i only agree that they are not very good , as has been said before they are very much reimagined copies of well known artists, and would possibly look better displayed in just a couple of spaces .... But they are not porn . I know it’s all a matter of taste , and I have no problem with nudes !
 
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There aren’t a lot of used condoms in either classical or modern nude paintings.
 
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Perhaps @Heathcliffe can't pretend to work during the weekend ....he wrote that his wife didn't know about his penchant for SJ.......
 
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The OG appalling artwork

Stepping back a bit, it makes me wonder who thought it was a great idea to sink a ton of money into a semi derelict pile, and leave Stephanie, of all people, in charge, for 15 years, in the first place? WTF? And what has she done with it? Nothing. Until covid and YT, this year, and no-one saw that coming. And yet still essential works remain undone and apparently ignored.

I wouldn't trust her to house sit for one week, let alone anything else!
 
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That's the problem....
 
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