The Chateau Diaries #82 The Tale of Philip, the châteausexual Hedgehog

[Dippy Hippy]

Marie has just cancelled the Christmas Hygge event due to lack of ticket sales. Haworth is rather out of the way and the price was much too high for locals. (II asked the family there what they thought?). She's going ahead with the one at Cobbles and Clay.
Just lower your prices Marie, this is Northern England not the more affluent South! Try Harrogate, Ilkley or York, they are wealthier.
This is Marie's new studio. The murder cave.

 

[lolander]

Exactly, I was an avid supporter until this. I now see her in a new light as well. I now think of her as someone who is quite deceitful whilst pretending to be honest and forthcoming. Also, I still feel it is all a little seedy, maybe that is the 'prude' in me but she has been sleeping with her much younger volunteer for over a year - she claimed she is being judged as a woman but I think if this was a male chateau owner and a young female volunteer, I would feel the same...or maybe it is because she is happy to model her new vintage bra, record herself in the bath but she hid a relationship for so long, the boundaries are a little blurred.

If Stephanie was a man every single person would crucify him from his balls for sleeping with a volunteer half his age

 

[KiKiGee]

Poor Ruby...
Selmar has post another flog.
comments...

Judy Richardson
2 hours ago
How will Diesel and Ruby make it into England with there strict quarantine laws ?

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Helen Palmer
1 hour ago
Ruby belongs to Lalande not Selmar

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smolpuppyo'love
1 hour ago
Pet passports

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caroline gooder
12 minutes ago
Ruby will stay at Lalande till the move to a new Chateau and then Rudy will move with them per Selmar.

 

[Delizia]

Marie has just cancelled the Christmas Hygge event due to lack of ticket sales. Haworth is rather out of the way and the price was much too high for locals. (II asked the family there what they thought?). She's going ahead with the one at Cobbles and Clay.
Just lower your prices Marie, this is Northern England not the more affluent South! Try Harrogate, Ilkley or York, they are wealthier.
This is Marie's new studio. The murder cave.

I'd rather work in my kitchen than having to spend a whole afternoon in this cave and wasting the few hours of sun we get in the winter just because I wanted a damn studio. Make do with what you have at home Marie.

I once suggested her to get a shared space in dms. She said she wanted to have her own...

 

[nastynan13]

Not sure how to move it on, well I have no idea what to do! Hopefully someone will know.
@Pno should choose the title for the new thread If they can't I love @JackSpratt suggestion with a modification from @KyBourbon.
"LaLande Lady of the Leaks"
Unless Pno is awake of course to choose!

Oh!! I LOVE lady la Land of the leaks!

I'd rather work in my kitchen than having to spend a whole afternoon in this cave and wasting the few hours of sun we get in the winter just because I wanted a damn studio. Make do with what you have at home Marie.

I once suggested her to get a shared space in dms. She said she wanted to have her own...

Taking on your OWN space when starting out is a ridiculous expense!! I know someone who does truly expenses weddings (say 60/70k on flowers maybe a bit more) she JUST got a SHARED studio space!! And when I say studio - I mean work space- nothing fancy to receive clients in!

 

[Delizia]

Oh!! I LOVE lady la Land of the leaks!


Taking on your OWN space when starting out is a ridiculous expense!! I know someone who does truly expenses weddings (say 60/70k on flowers maybe a bit more) she JUST got a SHARED studio space!! And when I say studio - I mean work space- nothing fancy to receive clients in!

I'd say she could have gotten a sort of small reception tent and put it up somewhere in their garden as a working space. That way she'd have sunlight. Have everything on hand, can go back inside to get hot cup of tea, be near her office... And the tent will just be to work on the big arrangements or store flowers outside her house.

EDIT: Forget that, where I'm from it's not windy at all but using this option may be risky in Northern England, don't know. Really having a shared space is the best option. I guess she's hypersensitive to people around her when trying to focus cause she couldn't have anyone in the kitchen either when cooking at Lalande.

 

[KiKiGee]

Same pants for the paying patron/guest/gift giver.

 

[Reader's digest]

Bibi's on the roll, isn't she. Don't know what she's been eating I can't make any screenshots at the moment, but it's definitely a fascinating read!

She is right though

 

[Reader's digest]

As I see it, the riff of MPK's art offer is not selling it good or bad but the fact it's left over from last year & hundreds of patreons never received t as promised. Yet again promises, promises.

Oh, no, another cry video is about to come when he will show how many stamps he needs to buy to send the cards off.

 

[DamoiseauC]

The link is down again
They propably expire after some time. I could upload them on a website

 

[Hemerocallis]

That's why I was able to excuse the gift grab in my mind in the very beginning. Adjusting to the channel explosion, all these gifts coming in , some pretty cool ones fitting for a chateau, some that could be used personally (jewelry,scarves), I could understand how fun it must feel, especially for someone who never got alot of gifts as well. BUT as it went on and on and on, I think it's long overdue that she put an end to the show of it.

That's what she says but she received lots of furniture, mirrors, fabric from her father, the two parrot candlesticks (from Isabelle !), bedheads from her aunt......

 

[Jules100]

…I was interested because it seemed weird. It's neither here nor there, really. The Chateau DIY channel has hardly taken Y/T by storm or broken the Internet!!!!

The Chateau DIY YouTube channel that has recently posted the latest episodes is not the official Chateau DIY channel. Just some rando posting & looking for clicks. It will be gone again soon. Watch them before they get taken down.

 

[NotAChatelaine]

The Chateau DIY YouTube channel that has recently posted the latest episodes is not the official Chateau DIY channel. Just some rando posting & looking for clicks. It will be gone again soon. Watch them before they get taken down.

I couldn't believe it was in any way connected to Kinndling or C4. And I'm surprised they're still there.

 

[TheTaxInspector]

Etymology of the word patron: from Latin patronus ‘protector of clients, defender’, from pater, patr- ‘father’.

 

[Pekey]

About to go to bed but before I do ......

Congrats Dippy Hippy VIP !!!

 

[Clara Burnett]

She is right though

Indeed. And a real trooper, taking them all on!

 

[Parrfect Porcelane]

@Parrfect Porcelane Nor did I, nor do I think there is that aspect. At least not for me! All in the eye of the beholder, or , quoting @Gibson: " I also realise art is subjective and of course everyone's taste is different. One man's trash is another man's treasure." There's so much in the history of Art that was , in its time, ridiculed and/or denounced as "pornographic" or labelled degenerate art. DJ has not, as far as we know, left any literature on his artworks, so anything one reads into them can be right, or wrong. Or, as Gertrude Stein put it, "a rose is a rose is a rose".

Good morning. You raise some fair points. I was at first drawn to the cheerful colors in some of the paintings and didn't look much further.

 

[NotAChatelaine]

Same pants for the paying patron/guest/gift giver.

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Halloween has been and gone but this is the most spooky serendipity...i was going to search tattle for the Bdos portrait of a Travelling Squirrel! One of my friends in Bdos wants to see it (with a view to mentioning the travellers to both the family who own/run Coral Reef and also the Colleton owners). I couldn't persuade her to start watching CD - possibly put off by my précis of the plot, subplots and counterplots surrounding a real life soap opera.

 

[TheTaxInspector]

@Parrfect Porcelane Nor did I, nor do I think there is that aspect. At least not for me! All in the eye of the beholder, or , quoting @Gibson: " I also realise art is subjective and of course everyone's taste is different. One man's trash is another man's treasure." There's so much in the history of Art that was , in its time, ridiculed and/or denounced as "pornographic" or labelled degenerate art. DJ has not, as far as we know, left any literature on his artworks, so anything one reads into them can be right, or wrong. Or, as Gertrude Stein put it, "a rose is a rose is a rose".

Heidegger's definition of art in Poetry, Language, Thought is worth a read ...

 

[juniperroad]

Someone asked if any Tattlers would watch Dan, if he didn't show the Shittoo. I would, the man has talent and has a go. I would enjoy watching a time-lapse of his renovations from start to finish. It's coming on apace.

I would probably check in every once in a while. I'm the type that likes a lot of goings on in videos. I'm bored when he is just straight up renovating. His kids are really cute but I'm not watching videos for vloggers kids. That is one thing that I still enjoy about SJ's videos, the wide range of characters and a lot of action going on.