The Chateau Diaries #254 The Chatelaine de Shopping let The Kat out of the bag

[JackSpratt]

She doesn’t even bother to hide that she isn’t doing any of the promised work. In the CD danapolooza video, when he asked Fanny if she was going to actually do renovations, Stephanie just laughed and laughed and said, steady on, steady on! Phi Phi started laughing also They think it is a big joke that they would actually do what they promised.Stephanie is so contemptuous towards viewers and Patrons.

It's the fact that these crazies can't/won't see it that amazes me, they just keep on doling out the cash. Us lot must be the sanest people around.

 

[KyBourbon]

“Dan an honorary VIP on here. We could refer to him as DTMVIP”

Sorry…I forgot. I think that was already used as the title of thread #75

 

[Imperious Me]

I find it difficult to believe that Stingy Stephanie would allow workshop participants to pull weeds and wildflowers to make bouquets. After all, it is vital that each weed, wildflower/ flower on the premises is saved for B and B guests only. Kid No. 2 learned that lesson when Stephanie denied him a grifted tulip.

True, but I'm sure she'll claw back 20% from Marie for 'inventory' & facilities....

 

[LoddyDah]

What is even more sickening than the hohouse is Dan actually vlogging his deceptions and gaslighting his audience
1 hair style change
2 kid floods studio
3 actually leaving footage in of Annelise
4 showing A proposing to him
5 staying at Lalande secretly
6 admitting the break up and saying they are friends
7 throwing Annelise a birthday party
There is probably more……

He is so full of his own self. He probably thought leaving that footage in would make her look bad. It didn’t. She was always so willing to help him on those projects. For a lazy person, she sure was shown a lot helping out. The reaction over the flooding of the studio, in my opinion, showed a woman who had had enough.
What was clear, especially after the Marie interview, was that Annalise was a woman who felt secure in her relationship. She wasn’t picking up on the red flags. She must’ve been blindsided.

 

[pasta_aldente]

I just can't fathom €100 to forage - fancy word for taking plants found in nature. Oh yey, the sparkling wine - code for you are not worth champagne. I like sparkling wine don't get me wrong, especially Pignoletto from Emilia Romana region....but it won't be that. Remember how Snorts commented that Dan's shower in a bag reminded him of their boxed wine they buy. Who admits that?!

 

[marotta]

Here is some new info posted by Selmar in the Chateau Wrap Up comment section:

@selmarduinofficial
21 minutes ago
@Scotchette You have no idea how I felt after the conversation I had with Phillip one night. I was Shocked and I wanted to get out of that place. So Dan started with cat on Versaile and before that cat was dating with Marie. Phillip came to la landa for Michael Patrick. Did not even liked Stephanie. but he needs sex every day. So he turned on to all the ladies in the house. In the mean while when Michael Patrick was there. They had sex to and the next week he was dating Stephanie. Can you even amazing how it feels to be there and watch it all happening. I was sick of it and I am glad that i now on a verry nice place.

Are there no other single people in that area? Did Steph really start dating a guy who got plowed by her male bff a week earlier???!!!! And how infatuated could he really be with her if he tried to get with pretty much everyone at the chateau prior to her?

 

[KiKiGee]

We don't know exactly what happened but I think many people might conjecture that, had she not had that scholarship, she may still be here.

SAY HER NAME!!!!!!
MMAKHOTSO MOLOI RIP

 

[LittleMore Cottage]

According to Clara Burnett, that was an ectopic pregnancy. I suppose Snorts is meant to have supplied the male DNA required for this to occur.

IDK it seems that Potts might have pretty active as well, or maybe it was Grant, Selmar, Cheese guy, random work away guy- the possibilities are endless.

 

[JackSpratt]

I remember this episode, I thought Kat and Amaury had something going on, which seemed odd... but Fanny says Selmar and Tatyana didn't come 'sadly' because Tatyana had just arrived the night before... yet to hear Selmar tell it, they'd all been fighting for some time before he cancelled...

Was this also shortly before FRK left? I'm sure I'm not imagining it but at the end of this Fanny was filming everyone leaving Versailles and there was Natti and FRK in front walking away and Natti put her cloak around FRK who seemed to be upset, it's not there now or I've missed it because I can't bear to watch the whole thing again.

 

[lalablahblah]

Are there no other single people in that area? Did Steph really start dating a guy who got plowed by her male bff a week earlier???!!!! And how infatuated could he really be with her if he tried to get with pretty much everyone at the chateau prior to her?

Cameltoeho is obviously a sex addict...Skankanee fosters an environment of heavy drinking and freewheeling sex... Functional alcoholics abound there... He's an addict not a psychopath... Sex addicts love and get infatuated with people... He needs treatment he obviously isn't getting traveling all over with his Narc fiancee... She's the narcissist Those types are the ones who don't really people they use them to maintain an image.... A man with an actual job can't be at her beck and call... That's why she broke up with Potty...

 

[LittleMore Cottage]

You know what I find puzzling.
I have just rewatched this vlog and at the end she appears to name everyone who was a patreon at that time and there is no Caroline Gooder on the list.

Anyone else notice how Nati is barely in the video, never really saw her dress or had any interaction with her- very ODD at the time and this is where Marie first came on the scene. Definitely a closeness with Amorie and Kat

 

[billybudd]

Yep. All true. And Europe is also losing its old-growth, closed-canopy forests at an alarming rate, so France is trying to preserve what's left of them, which means careful management and not over-thinning. I hope Nick leaves enough behind for the owls, mushrooms, wild boar, water flow, carbon storage, etc. The last time I spied an episode of her forest management, it looked like a free for all to make room for her "garden Englaise". Two sides...but thanks for your response.

Thanks for yours.
My understanding (based on a video in which Stephanie may have been railroading Nick? can't recall) is that he cleared the pines around the chapel because they'd been planted for commercial logging, were past their sell-by date, and would soon fall on the chapel. I'll always argue his case because he pruned the apple trees in the potager which hadn't been cared for in 40 years. It may look like decimation but they need light and air within to stay healthy and fruit. Not that Stephanie gives a damn. Nick does.

 

[lalablahblah]

SAY HER NAME!!!!!!
MMAKHOTSO MOLOI RIP

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I didn't know how to spell her name correctly...Was trying to respectfully ask a question I had a hunch on... I live on my tribes Indian Reservation and experience what crushing poverty does... We do not have a casino... I've seen first hand how some charities exploit people while failing them...I also am not informed on how her culture honors the names of those passed on... Our culture has protocols on how to use a deceased name ...

 

[Cleo's Asp]

Gawd, that Versailles vlog! Maria looked lovely in her dress and even Marie looked good and then there was the OTT six year old doll, over-made up with odd eyebrows. She could never have fitted into that era. She behaved like the idiotic sister in Pride and Prejudice and Kat was clearly inebriated.

 

[KyBourbon]

Are there no other single people in that area? Did Steph really start dating a guy who got plowed by her male bff a week earlier???!!!! And how infatuated could he really be with her if he tried to get with pretty much everyone at the chateau prior to her?

Yes, it appears she did. Stephanie probably wanted to have sex with Michael Petherick but he declined. So…Michael had sex with Philip (the “volunteer” who traveled to LaLande just to meet Michael, according to Selmar). Then, Philip had sex with Stephanie. I’m pretty sure Stephanie had Philip describe to her, in graphic detail, his sexual experience with Michael. If Stephanie couldn’t have Michael, she got the next best thing…a blow-by-blow account of her boyfriend’s sexual experience with him. Michael…you know Philip spilled all the juicy details to Stephanie and they laughed and giggled about it like a couple of schoolgirls. They’re not your friends.

 

[Cleo's Asp]

I don't think selmar is on the spectrum. It's more likely he has brain injury from his accident. Either a traumatic injury or a concussion that has resulted in scar tissue/lesions to his brain that causes cognitive impairment.

He is unable to see behind a facade or read between the lines. If someone smiles and says nice things to him, he likes them. He refuses to blame Fanny for anything because she falsely praised him. Marie is similar in that respect; Fanny tells her she's beautiful and she feels flattered. Tatyana may be similar also. It's hard for people like that to survive in the real world. They can very easily become victims.

 

[Lochness Monster]

I will attempt to put myself into Fanny’s head and answer these questions…wish me luck!

@missartemis
I would like to add to MrsP67's list of CD perplexities. I hope that's ok MrsP67. You inspired me. And by the way, Fanny will never address your questions with her Patrons. So don't hope for that...it's a waste of your time and energy. (For you tattlers, there may be answers to these questions that I missed while I was away, and I also have some of my own answers based on pure conjecture, so just bear with...)

10. What happened to the gazebo you bought for the walled garden and the large octagonal cabinet that you purchased for the China room, and all the other countless swag you’ve purchased on your addictive shopping excursions? The gazebo is rusting and overgrown with weeds; the octagonal cabinet is in the stable covered in bird tit…it will NEVER hold a piece of porcelain.

11. What happened to the attic that you and Potts cleaned out? Not the Narnia attic, the other one? It’s full of PhiPhi’s dresses and high heel shoes.

12. Where have you warehoused the roughly 4 thousand gifts you have received from the Cadeau? (52 weeks times 3 years times an average of 25 gifts per week). The good stuff (5%) has been stored away…the rest has been sold or carted off to the charity shop.

13. What have you done for the family of your scholarship recipient since her suicide? What family? Who? Gawd…such a Debbie Downer. That’s so yesterday…moving on.

14. Why do you have sheep? I forgot I had sheep!

15. Why are you incapable of seeing the people’s eyes rolling back in their heads when you and Philly come up with hare-brained ideas that require their heavy labor and little effort on your part? For that matter, why do they drop everything and succumb to your whims? Because…me!

16. Why are you decimating your beautiful forest and paying the “arborist” to do so just because he tells you it’s necessary? I hate the ecosystem. Hello! Lake?

17. When are you going to do something about that god-awful tennis court? I don’t look good in my tennis whites, so the tennis court will not be renovated.

18. What happened to the natural swim pond after you were shut down by the local government for lacking planning permission? PhiPhi uses it for her mud bath.

19. Why are you still letting people gather on the crumbling patio that was found to be structurally unstable? Better them than me!

20. Why don’t you embrace the community you live in by actually talking to people in the shops and cafés? I don’t associate with the local peasants. I know what they did to the nobility nearly 300 years ago…and I’m worse than that.

21. How is it that no one in your local Département has discovered how many labor and business regulations you are skirting? (I noticed the local Maire had a great time at your open house. Just saying.). I let the local Marie have his way with PhiPhi for favors. It’s part of Philip’s contract for employment.

22. Why is “Nutti’s Apartment” renovation stalled when you were able to renovate Mummy’s apartment on schedule for Escape to the Chateau DIY? If you are waiting so long for planning permission for a door or window, or whatever, why don’t you just change the plan? Why bother with Nutti’s apartment? She moved out of my lavish farmhouse to that teeny, tiny house with cuz.

23. Why did you and Mummy do such a lovely job of being accountable for your Patreon money for the first few months and then after Mums left town, no more accounting? I’m not good with numbers. Or money. Or men. Or projects.

24. Why do you not have door locks and keys for your paying guests? How can PhiPhi have his nightly trysts with locks on the doors? Duh!

25. What happened to the architect’s plans for a new façade, and balcony? Filed under “Garbage.”

26. What have you done with over a million dollars of income from Patreon and YouTube (combined) Since 2021? On my way to Christies in New York, I stopped in the Cayman Islands to open a bank account.

27. Why did you stop all work on the chateau when you discovered that the building was about to collapse during the renovation of the “grand salon”? “Don’t throw good money after bad” is my motto!

28. Is it possible that Ian the builder and Armour have a conscience and do not want to get sued or worse because they realized that your chateau is structurally beyond repair, close to being a death trap, and you being aware of this continue to use it as a money generator by blatantly deceiving your guests and patrons? They’re amateurs. Wimps. Only weaklings have a conscience.

29. How much stuff is enough? Are you kidding me? Serious inquiries only, please.

30. How do you sleep at night? I’m a bleep…so…sleep? What’s that? There’s a reason I don’t get out of bed until after noon.

Did you have to go to bed early and have several whiskies and light a €200 candle!!

 

[TorontoGWM]

Doing it with Kat
In ruined chateau hoping
YouTubers don’t find out. Ooops.

 

[billybudd]

Well actually, it was the height of fashion to receive with jellies and aspic and whatnot in the Victorian era. They also made a huge amount of moulds for it. https://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com/2013/06/macedoine-and-other-eccentric-victorian.html

Yeah, the great thing about Jello (by any other name) is it could be molded into those incredible neo-Gothic shapes. Laura Shapiro, in her book about the home economics movement, named it after what Jello and the home economists represented and hoped to achieve -- Perfection Salad, the original 1931 cabbage and gelatin recipe. Larousse Gastro is filled with some truly frightening pix -- along with the mounted sugar constructions along the lines of the Taj Mahal in boiled whatsis, an architectural urge in sugar which paralled the gelatin architecture trend. MFK Fisher has a hilarious and sad essay somewhere about crossing the Atlantic on one of her trademark cheap liners. The fifth-rate chef had a dusty pièce montée he'd made 30 years earlier he dragged out for special occasions. I used to have a neo-Gothic Jello mold for my perfection salads, it was awesome.
Thank you for the interesting and authoritative link. Macedoines, whoa. Cathedrals of J-J-J-hello.

 

[MRShavershamsdress]

You know what I find puzzling.
I have just rewatched this vlog and at the end she appears to name everyone who was a patreon at that time and there is no Caroline Gooder on the list.

Merde! You’ve just given her a way to legitimize the proxy accounts!