The Chateau Diaries #295 He's sick of it and we're sick of him - Philip that is.

[Lochness Monster]

They may want to discuss the possibility of camper van hook ups with the Mairie. The Mairie will almost certainly not give permission regardless of whether they have a good relationship. And people staying in them, even on private property is considered vagrancy.

Their workaway blurb reads ok. Except the bit about moving bedrooms if friends arrive! No. Just no. Volunteers have come to help you decorate, maintain, cook and clean your house and you're going to ask them to move rooms if someone better (in Shrek's eyes, Despicable fanny) comes along? That is unacceptable. Also the bit about staying in their own camper vans? If they chose to, or prefer to, fine. But, hmm, expecting them to when they've come to help... We offered a completely private, self-contained cottage but the volunteers ate all their meals with us and relaxed with us in the evening, watched a bit of TV or a film.



These grifters and fanny hangers-on have a most peculiar way of dealing with helpers/volunteers. Most of them run businesses from their properties. Therefore using volunteers for their paying business is not allowed by workaway or helpx. I know that Shrek and maker have shown hospitality to their volunteers on their youtube flog and seem to be generally caring but emulating the chatelaine of the shithole de lielande is madness.

They have seen Fanny do it and think they can do the same.
Swapping bedrooms, no bathroom but sharing, no tv.
Mean food budget.
Yet want cooks , cleaners, gardening help and light…building and wallpapering.
Steve apparently works afternoons and evenings!

Then they want the slaves to be on camera to provide them with yet more income.
Unbelievable.
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Congrats Patriciarella!!

We can tear up the sign now! Congrats squirrel compilation extraordinaire Patriciaella.

Maybe FRK has a camper ? Someone has / had parked up at the dump. Maybe the quiet guest at the big chateau swap weekend?

 

[TorontoGWM]

 

[Cleo's Asp]

Thanks, Lochy!

Snort's pathetic "styling" is all over the dumpy location set: lamp atop pile of books, dildo telescope perilously placed at base of lamp, and exposed electrical cords.

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BTW, Mary Poppins had to dust those books.

Well, the tacky dress goes with the tacky room!

 

[FecilitéJ]

Maybe be a little late but if we're still taking orders I'd like an Idris Elba please.

If Idris is too busy then I'd settle for Jeff.

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Congrats to @Patriciarella on the VIP status. Us in the cheap seats salute you!

 

[Tartuffe]

Bonne Maman is cringeworthy. I absolutely agree with @Lochness Monster that the 100 Stars team had little to choose from at a dump with how many rooms?! Everything is run down and decrepit. There is crap everywhere: cheap glass candlesticks, Fanny and Snorts' musty bargain books, Emmaus reproduction artwork, assorted teaware, etc. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap . . . .

The models are cute, though. Notice the flowers coming out of the bottom of this on! Thank God Fanny wasn't asked to model in the campaign and Derek Jarvis' porn paintings were left out.

 

[marthamilligancef]

Oh look Snorty has grandma’s $1.34 tat chicken decorations pride of place next to the $3000.00 Ardmore vase? SJ’s letting Snorty have the farmhouse, she still has the African land her & Potty will build a home on to live happily ever after. In the mean time expect one of her new boy toys from the chapel restore to “spend the night” for the Easter party.

Virgil isnt paying much attention to her so far!

 

[Lochness Monster]

Thanks, Lochy!

Snort's pathetic "styling" is all over the dumpy location set: lamp atop pile of books, dildo telescope perilously placed at base of lamp, and exposed electrical cords.

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BTW, Mary Poppins had to dust those books.

That lamp is utterly ridiculous. I cannot unsee that lamp as someone with hands on their hips with an odd size hat on.

@Hedda Hopper.
I do agree about quality and also try and have natural fibres and especially wool as I like to support farmers.
I do not wish to have another banana gate .
I have seen the streets in Africa piled high with our clothing that no one wants,
Is it something like we only ever wear 20% of our wardrobe. Not sure.
However I have had huge problems with moths that have destroyed my carpets, the interlining on my curtains, wool vests ( from Italy and they are beautiful ) linen and silk tops and so many jackets .
Blankets , rugs , headboards etc etc felt on the piano keys etc etc
It is very costly and disheartening. Because of my dog and me too , I do not want to fumigate with chemicals. I’ve tried every natural remedy I know.

 

[BigGreenMeany]

When will F4F get her hands on the Ozzies at selling up&buying a chateau? They seem to have an endless budget - should appeal to to Fanny

 

[Just Grift Wood]

 

[Jules100]

Congratulations @Patriciarella, you did it! Who’s your favorite and least favorite CD character? If you could have a free week long stay at any of YouTube’s chateau b&b’s which one would you pick? Who’d you rather, Philip Janssen or Big Steve?
*2022 throwback below:

 

[billybudd]

He's strong willed, and thank goodness with what he's had to endure with his brother, and having to accept the woman who in his mind destroyed his mother, as his fathers new wife... "William can take care of himself" is a heartless thing to say, in my opinion. My heart goes out to him.

Camilla is a master leaker, talked to UK Sun editor Stuart Higgins weekly for 10 years about the state of the Wales' marriage, 1982-92, says Higgins, according to serious royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith.
Also she got Charles to hire Marc Bolland, introduced to her via her divorce lawyer, to rehab her reputation and make her marriagable.
With those caveats, it is Camilla who has had her family and friends speak to the press about William ranting and raving, unchecked, at his father. In front of his father's wife.
Strong willed is not the word for that.
And when I say can take care of himself, I don't mean he should be isolated, but rather he himself fights for his point of view. And not always kindly, fairly, or intelligently. As the Chinese say, an angry man is a poor man.

 

[vitanova]

we were laughing to @Abuela but she got it almost right:

 

[Gertrude Maud]

Thinking about Denise's 'chateau magic' candlelit dinner in the barn then thinking about Fanny's abysmal Patron's lunch in the barn.
Also thinking about Brett and Denise's 'farm'. It makes the dump look exactly what it is . . . a worn out, shabby, neglected, falling down farmhouse with very little to recommend it.

 

[Lady Avonlea]

Bonne Maman is cringeworthy. I absolutely agree with @Lochness Monster that the 100 Stars team had little to choose from at a dump with how many rooms?! Everything is run down and decrepit. There is crap everywhere: cheap glass candlesticks, Fanny and Snorts' musty bargain books, Emmaus reproduction artwork, assorted teaware, etc. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap . . . .

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The models are cute, though. Notice the flowers coming out of the bottom of this on! Thank God Fanny wasn't asked to model in the campaign and Derek Jarvis' porn paintings were left out.

I bloody well hope that the 100 Stars folks didn't pay Fanny any money to use the shitoo for this location shoot!
Hope they brought a cleaner with them to clean up the joint for the photos.

 

[Pekey]

Derek Jarvis' porn paintings were left out.

In a Oprah voice....... "What?????"

They missed the best bit of tacky !

 

[Pyke]

Lots of 100 stars shots using CHMN. The ones showing the hung up crumpled white bed sheets look straight out of Emmaus, but I think they are from before the famed photo shoot.

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[T Rex]

Congratulations @Patriciarella for joining the VIP ranks!

"I was in a famous boy band. We were the NSYNC of the Netherlands. I will sing you some of my grandfather's favourite songs from MY chateau that I decorated myself!"

"I couldn't buy Stephanie a fish sandwich from Maccas because I spent my allowance on your VIP gift at Emmaus. I hope you like it!"

"Surprise! It is a portrait of me with my favourite Emmaus porcelain, doing what I love all day. Which is sitting about and drinking hot chocolate. It was a gift to Stephanie, so I am not sure why it was at Emmaus for 50p!"

"Marie helped me try to recreate @Jules100's epic pumpkin photo, but Fanny said I couldn't borrow her special yellow painting dress, and Nati wouldn't loan me her left-foot boots."

"I made you pasta, tuna & peaches- it was my grandfather's favourite. But don't share with the other 15 Tattlers!"

 

[billybudd]

Oh look Snorty has grandma’s $1.34 tat chicken decorations pride of place next to the $3000.00 Ardmore vase? SJ’s letting Snorty have the farmhouse, she still has the African land her & Potty will build a home on to live happily ever after. In the mean time expect one of her new boy toys from the chapel restore to “spend the night” for the Easter party.

Congratulations on your VIPness, @Patriciarella. I've been looking forward to this day and have prepared a very, very special Florida cracker menu at the fish shack, deep in Florida cracker latitudes, to compliment this happy day. All are welcome, entrance to the fish shack is to the left, bien sur, of the VIP lounge.

Ernest Matthew Mickler, an artistic and soulful gay man, is a hero of mine. His 1986 book, White Trash Cooking, had a major influence on American regional foodways studies, including the foodways of poor and enslaved people. This revealed the strong influence on American mainstream cooking of the underclasses. Great southerner, great book.

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Miller Lite
Florida Cracker Belgian Style White Ale
Grandmama's Receipt, Shaken with Ice, Triple Sec and Lime Juice

Ernest Matthew Mickler’s Broiled Squirrel
Southern Living’s Buttermilk Biscuits, Green Pepper Jelly

Ernest’s Day Old Fried Fish (Cold and Pickled, or in Diana Kennedy's Escabeche or Francine Turone's Escovitch)
Hush Puppies
Hot Swamp Cabbage, a la Old Time Florida Cracker
Bessie Gibbs' Epic Florida Cracker Hall of Fame Cedar Key Hearts of Palm Salad
Florida Master Baker Maida Heatter's Coconut Layer Cake
Hot Coffee with Grandmama's Receipt

Get your mambo shirt on, Mama. There will be line dancing at the shindig tonight. I will be wearing shin guards, shorts, the kitten-heeled flip flops and a pink Palm Valley t shirt.

 

[Imperious Me]

Camilla is a master leaker, talked to UK Sun editor Stuart Higgins weekly for 10 years about the state of the Wales' marriage, 1982-92, says Higgins, according to serious royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith.
Also she got Charles to hire Marc Bolland, introduced to her via her divorce lawyer, to rehab her reputation and make her marriagable.
With those caveats, it is Camilla who has had her family and friends speak to the press about William ranting and raving, unchecked, at his father. In front of his father's wife.
Strong willed is not the word for that.
And when I say can take care of himself, I don't mean he should be isolated, but rather he himself fights for his point of view. And not always kindly, fairly, or intelligently. As the Chinese say, an angry man is a poor man.

From this I'd say Camilla is the one who fights dirty not William. He's entitled to defend himself without someone else telling the story... The guy is going through a horrible time, but it's fine if you have no empathy, some do and that's fine too.

 

[billybudd]

From this I'd say Camilla is the one who fights dirty not William. He's entitled to defend himself without someone else telling the story... The guy is going through a horrible time, but it's fine if you have no empathy, some do and that's fine too.

I have been watching him, with a professional interest, for four decades. His recent inheritance of the $1 billion duchy of Cornwall has not improved his humility nor his temper. Look out for more very controlling dishonest behavior toward the press, taught to him by his mother, using his wife and children for sympathy. This Catherine cancer episode has been very badly handled, and for very poor reasons. No one will now believe anything the two of them have to say ever again, because they refuse to take advice from communications professionals.
Even Charles got it right, and announced his diagnosis to the public immediately. And nobody's making disgusting speculation about his illness as a result. But as we have seen, William is not taking advice from anyone, much less his father.
Over and out.

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