The Chateau Diaries #299 The only culture found this winter in the shitoo was scraped off the filthy floor

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Just watched Peter and Anna's vlog from a wonderful lfe. A very snarky comment re Pethericks, just saw Billy and Gwendolyn in the the church over there, making a donation or just the opposite. Anna gave a giggle, seems although they spent time at the chateau dancing and drinking not friends after all.
 
Iolair said:
Hello my much missed friends. ❤

I'm not back, nor up to date, and as much as I wish it to be so, my husband is still not well enough to allow me the time to stay with you and comment on a regular basis. However, I have managed to watch a few of the shiteau antics and I have a few comments...

1/ Pretending to read Shogun is she? Trying her hardest to prove (mainly to herself, I'm sure) that she's up to date and relevant? Dragging that heavy book about on your travels? So dumb. Here's a tip for you Fanny, if you really want to be up to date and relevant, download Audible.

2/ Fanny, I sincerely hope you showered before your bath in Japan. It is considered extremely rude and highly inconsiderate to bathe without showering first. And while you're about it, learn the difference between a bath and an onsen (Oh, and what is and isn't a kimono).

3/ I'm sure someone must have mentioned this before but yes, Gion is closed to foreign tourists because, just like you, they can be rude, loud and obnoxious.

4/ On your visit to the historical Japanese village Fanny, you frequently mentioned the famous road, but obviously didn't know the name of the road, or bother to find out. It's called the Tokaido Road, you dolt! Jeez, it's so famous that kids in rural Uzbekistan (and 47 Ronin) could have told you this!

5/ Stop, please stop filming close ups of Potty's teeth.

6/ Stop, please stop filming Snorts. That's all, just freaking stop!

Love to all. Sadly I must disappear again. Be safe. ❤
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Miss your face @Iolair !!! Many hugs to you, and prayers for Mr. Iolair's recovery. 😘 ❤
 
@JackSpratt - I am so, so sorry about your beautiful kitty, Titty. I love that name, BTW!
Even more so, I'm sorry that you've just had a rough couple of years with so much loss.

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MsMuir said:
Amanda & Lincoln will be just fine, because first and foremost THEY ARE NOT IDIOTS

but if it turns out they are, I will request this post be deleted
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Thanks everyone, now you've got me nervous about Amanda & Lincoln....you people really are dream crushers aren't you?
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I don’t think there’s anything to worry about at Our French Chateau. Amanda and Lincoln have proven themselves quite adept at sidestepping the chateauverse booby traps. They also seem to take advice well and are capable of determining the good from the bad.
 
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I don’t imagine this will make you feel any better about your lengthy flight snafu, Stephanie, but you’ll soon be safely back in Lalande with Philip, Lancelot and the gang anyway, I thought sharing my travel tribulations over the years might put your own travel nightmare into a more bearable perspective: One hour into a flight from Seattle to Hawaii an overhead luggage bin fell onto a passenger two seats in front of me. The flight was returned to Seattle and the poor woman taken off for medical care. During a flight from San Diego to Dulles, VA airport, a passenger sitting just behind me passed away and the plane diverted to Denver. Arriving from an LAX to Saint Petersburg, Russia flight I found my luggage hadn’t arrived with me for a river boat cruise to Moscow. The baggage arrived to the ship three days later. For that Russia trip, my visa was delivered to my home two hours before I was to leave for my flight. Due to a late arrival on a flight to New Orleans for a Caribbean cruise I had precious little time to make it to the ship from the airport. On the way, the taxi had a flat tire. The taxi driver flagged down another taxi and I was the very last to board as the ship prepared to leave the pier. Traveling with a group in Vietnam and about to board a flight from Da Nang to Hanoi I was taken aside and told my seat had been assigned to a Vietnamese traveler and the flight was full. After a tour of Da Nang and seven hours later I was put on a flight to Hanoi and managed to reunite with my group. As for overnights in airport hotels due to delayed flights I’ve been there too. Just to say I feel your pain. It’s all a part of the wild and woolly adventures of travel. Now rest well. We’ll be here for another closer to home vlog whenever you’re ready.
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isabelle jarvis
6 hours ago
Remind me never to travel with you

isabelle jarvis
6 hours ago
Much cheaper.

isabelle jarvis
8 hours ago
The weather in Tokyo grounded all flights.
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Isabelle, I know it must be killing you to live in South Africa, even though it's with your millionaire. But your nasty mean-spiritedness just never ends.
Hope you're not starving Percy.
Yours sincerely,
William Budd
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Lochness Monster said:
Fanny the flasher , the dog ate my homework.
We had them take of her luggage being forwarded for ten dollars …why would you do this if only staying two nights ? Did your luggage load increase dramatically?
Fanny’s luggage was really allowed to fly ahead of her? Or did she have so much stuff she shipped everything back separately?
Either way the straps of the bag on her shoulder are not the solly doo dah ones. She has no luggage ?
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Sashiko coming to a brother sewing machine at the dump anytime soon….
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That would be hilarious.
But it's about reinforcing rags and patching the Japanese ploughman's smock, and quilting Zen shapes on stuff.
I will eat my collection of Superbuzzy fat quarters if she gets anywhere near it.
 
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She is desperate for content! Milking the trip back to the Dump with 3 videos? Is she setting up a storyline where they “ buy” the puff mobile at a huge discount ( to cover up for purchasing the vehicle months ago)? I smell a set up to officially debut the Puffmobile as Fanny’s car or phi phi’s car. Didn’t she say she was going to buy him a car?
 
graciemckitten said:
What else can you add to this list?How many other ways is Stephanie trying to hide her reckless spending?

Just off the top of my head, It seems Stephanie is tired of getting busted and called out on her crazy spending and is taking defensive measures in videos to try to hide her purchases and luxuries:
  • Routinely engages in “time travel“ to make her departure and return times from trips murky, or to pass off old video as current to hide her vacations
  • Omits shopping trips, some luxury meals, and a few days of each long vacation trip to make them appear less expensive and hide her indulgences.
  • Now intentionally hides portions of her dresses, purses, and outfits so they cannot be traced to luxury designers ( recall the tens of thousands of dollards/ euros spent on floral designer dresses alone?) ( her $1500+ Austrian couture dress she wore onc3 and claimed was a gift from Snorty after he broke open his McDonald’s fund piggybank? The approximate $1,000 or so crystal laden clutch and crystal laden shoes she wore at an anniversary dinner with her auntie or the Bagheads … I forget who else was with the gruesome twosome) ( her Louboutins).
  • buys some items from second hand designer shops ( or will claim to have done so…..when she hasn’t) to obscure amount spent on clothing
  • sneaks purchases into the background of cd videos( clothing, lamps, curtains, purses, furniture, expensive new kitchen appliances, Ratso purchases, etc.) Fortuny pillows/ lamp shades, chandeliers, mirrors, etc.
  • sneaks new jewelry, coats, scarves, and clothing into videos.
  • is now trying to buy from obscure boutiques that have only one location total so prices are more difficult to track ( or may not have websites or the goods purchased are unavailable at larger retailers).
  • will claim something was a gift/ promotional deal/ discounted/found on the side of the road by a foraging FRK, etc.
  • hides all of the luggage she takes on vacations and returns with ( to hide purchases or length of trip). Tries to showcase grifted $1,000 aluminum suitcases.
  • Does not film flights on airplanes, or identify airlines when she is traveling business or first class ( whichever is priciest). Films and makes a big deal when she is forced to fly an economy airline), in order for the timing or cost of the flights to be difficult to determine
  • Did not video or identify Ratso’s breeders or specific location ( likely because she paid full price for Ratso).
  • Will not film people who are on trips/ excursions that she may be paying for ( Tess hides from the camera, Baghead, etc.).Do you think she picked up the bill for a portion of the nail lady’s hotel or meals? I do, Fanny desperately wants to be “ in” with this couple, just like the pianist she worked with once, tobacco Johnny, Permasmile, etc. She always wants to show off and splash out money to try to impress people she thinks are desirable to association with. )
  • I think she films in her 10 euro glad rags on occasion and then changes into her designer clothing after the little pink camera is turned off, and resumes her day or evening.
  • Hides the duplicate expensive kitchen appliances she purchases ( 3 expensive hot chocolate machines and hundreds of dollars in hot chocolate packets for the little orphan princess, multiple pasta machines in a more costly copper finish so they look nicer). How many more expensive fridges and freezers will she buy with Patreon money to service the B and B guests?
  • now routinely hides off camera the identification and pouring of wine for the Dump crew do they can drink their expensive wines on camera without the cost being identified. If a bottle is shown on camera, Fanny will claim it was a gift or she will show cheap boxed wine instead.
  • often hides or obscures names and locations of restaurants or hotels and onlymfilms a portion of the expensive meals consumed by the gruesome twosome and others.
  • will not video her London storage units or dozens of rooms at the Dump containing left over/ grifted/ purchased auction buys, furniture, Narnia, left over grift grab framed pictures/ antiques/ etc.
  • Hid the name of the luxury boat she chartered in Venice to hide the price being tracked. Tried to obscure price of African safaris ( I still think Pottie and Mummy/ brother got a 2024 safari out of the Fanny money, but may have traveled on different dates. His Mummy was a member of the “ discount” club for the safari location.)
  • Fanny has been routinely purchasing high end luxury foods for herself while claiming on camera she is eating from the world’s most expensive vegetable garden ( spotted were expensive hot chocolates packets, pasta, the magical expensive truffle?, expensive wines and alcohol, teas, chocolates, and cookies, Durch chocolates, cakes from Vienna, Dolce and Gabanna panatone, this years Easter egg bonanza a mix of luxury chocolates, lots of pricey food purchased from Amazon, etc.)
  • Tries to hide the money wasted for dying and eaten expensive plants and trees imported from Belgium and continues to buy more and more, despite no adequate watering program or ability and not enough gardeners. She hides many of the planting failures by selectively focusing only on portions of “ gardens.”
  • Will usually not identify auction houses where many, many auction purchases are made and hides the purchases, the identity of all the items, the dates of auctions, and usually lies about the prices paid. She will falsely claim she got an item from EBay, alter the date of acquisition, the location where it was acquired, claim it was from a brocante, etc. to intentionally keep the true price of the item hidden.
  • keeps the majority of her purchases hidden off camera, and if caught, will claim it was second hand, from Emmaus, a gift, a family antique, something from daddy Derek, a sale item, a present from phi phi ( really? No one believes that) etc.
  • Hides her tips to London and expenses for Botox and fillers ( which would likely have paid for the chapel floor)
  • hid the purchase of the used Mercedes convertible for Mummy. Still think the whole puffy car situation is strange and think it iisbpossibke they purchased the Puffmobile and are still pretending it belongs to the Puffs to hide the acquisition of another vehicle from viewers (like the red van debacle. )

EXAMPLE OF STEPHANIE’S DUPLICITY IN JAPAN:

The 200 euro umbrella price applies to the 12 umbrellas that are solid colors, not to the patterned fabric umbrellas. Fanny knew some of it would be tracked so she chose the lowest price stock hand made umbrella to claim as the purchase price since the small, hand made umbrella maker only has one boutique to display and sell different fabrics on umbrellas outside of the umbrellas on the website that are provided to niche retailers.

The umbrella purchased from Snorts from patterned fabrics available at the company’s only retail store was not the same price as the 12 solid color stick umbrellas sold to a niche amount of other outlets, The $6,000 umbrella is a very special item handmade by the company. Fanny know people could look up the lower priced stock umbrellas but likely not the price of many of the one of a kind, hand made, specially patterned fabric umbrellas in the boutique ( not on their website).

Snorty’s special fabric umbrella was likely much more expensive than 200 euros.

This was another bragging rights, luxury purchase for Fanny to tote on her travels to “ impress” others or appear elite, ( like at the garden show, with Tess, etc.) along with her designer clothing, designer shoes, Chanel purse, $1,000+ computer bag, $1500 Ratso bag or $1000 Ratso tote ( if he ever travels again), expensive gold jewelry, designer scarves, etc. when she films or travels privately, Recall Hiw Isabelle ditched her Dump clothing and appeared at airports dressed in expensive clothes, jewelry, and carrying an expensive purse when traveling with Percy. It will be Fanny’s umbrella because paid for it with HER grifted money.

Oh, and her lie about it being the only gift for Snorty? She really does think people are stupid. She likely purchased silver chopsticks, a tea set, etc. for Snorty, Mummy, Pottie, the Bagheads, etc. and probably purchased matching geisha outfits fir herself and Snorts. Who sees a Japanese themed dinner party coming up? Fanny will try to tie in 100 stars with the trip to Japan. Strange because she has the red Chinese restaurant takeout wallpaper.
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Good one, Gracie. You should write a book on how to grift on camera. The air flight sleights of hand are impressive, as are the clothing and auction antiques. That she loves to wallow in her poverty and misfortune, loves to poormouth and beg, and gives Pheeph an inquisition on camera every time the poor boy goes to Emmaus really is cringeworthy. I've said it before -- she reminds me of a super aggressive beggar I knew of who used to strip off his shirt to show bad burn scars and wave his stump in peoples' faces. I think he had a degree from Oxford.
I also want to thank all of you due diligence sleuths who track down her furniture, clothing and porcelain expenses.
 
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Snorty clearly was not impressed with his umbrella from the Japanese Gods!
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Snorty would have preferred a leather whip, parasol, or both! Maybe something like this Cane Whip with a black woven handle, and an ivory nose cap and collar. Attached to the lower third of the whip is a black silk parasol with an ivory keep-ring and white silk lining. This Cane Whip was from 1800 - 1849 and is currently in the V&A Museum.
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Soloand Osokosi said:
How typical of Fanny, three days travelling and she doesn't even shower and change before sitting down for dinner. She really was channelling her inner Little Edie tonight doing a poor imitation of the flag dance with poor mistreated Ratso.
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I was thinking the same thing, if I had been traveling, got delayed and wearing the same panties..ugh. First thing I would do.is shower, wash my hair and cooch and put on fresh clean clothes. I bet she went to bed gross... She really is a.dirty girl.... And look who's back scrubbing the fountain, I guess It was beneath Snorts....what exactly did he do?? No.kitchen cleaning didn't have time for.two weeks to.hem some pants???? For heavens sake FRK. You are a grown woman learn to sew. Lots of tutorials, habe Snorts teach you. I get so annoyed at helpless people.
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Gertrude Maud said:
That's what 369 other people think as well . . . way too big.
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Creates comments. He said he might move it outside..
 
A few takeaways from tonight's vlog:

Fanny arrives to the train station in Châteauroux (in a different unwashed dress that she purchased at that shop in China) where Trixie is supposed to pick her up her. Apparently, Lancelot got sick on the car ride, Trixie stopped to clean it up, and then the car would not start. Fanny called the insurance company for roadside assistance (Trixie is incapable), and the car had to be towed as it had a bad auxiliary fan belt (Fanny did not say whether it was the Puffs Porsche or the Ford Fiesta, but either way, I doubt either vehicle has had regular maintenance/service while under their care.) The tow truck dropped Trixie and Lancelot off to Fanny's location, and she had to call a taxi- remarking that she had now spent over 2 hours at the train station.

Trixies reaction to the umbrella "gift"- he looked confused and underwhelmed by it!

What is the very first thing any normal person does when they get home after a very long series of flights and trains? They take a shower and put on clean clothing. Not vile Fanny. Although she has been marinating in the same underwear for days now, instead she has a cuppa, eats a cinnamon roll ("I'll just have a little bite..." Pulease, she ate the entire thing!), goes out to the jardin (which looks really neglected and overgrown), films Amaury washing the fountain (I guess Amaury & Herr Nuti's "working holiday" is over), oddly, does not visit the chapel, and presents her really crappy gifts to the lot (the girls received the "Heroine Mascara" from the airport Bic Camera gift shop, she gave Amaury and Herr Nuti the bag of Matcha Kit-Kats she had already opened and did not like, she plopped down her packages of pickled foods from Kyoto on the table, and presented FRK with a tiny box of mochi and random box of cakes.) There was absolutely zero thought put into any of these gifts. Even they had the look of "DAFUQ?!?" on their faces.

Ironic, isn't it? People send Fanny tons of things they put thought into, yet, she couldn't do the same for the very people who keep her shitoo afloat. Hell, people buy better things for their coworkers!

I also wondered WHY Fanny did not call anyone from the Shitoo to pick Trixie and her up? Amaury was there. FRK was there. Sabine was there hemming FRKs trousers- it's not like they were doing anything important.

It was burger night once again, and Fanny still has not taken a shower- she just sat down with the merry band of misfits for dinner and tucked in. Yuck. Afterward, she is in her pajamas in her bed- remember, Fanny ALWAYS tells us when she has taken a bath and washed her hair, but not tonight. (For the rest of us, the BEST part about returning home after a long trip is taking a long hot shower in one's own bathroom- "I feel human again!", putting on fresh jammies and getting into one's own bed with clean sheets.) Fanny is gross. No sign of Trixie- he probably went to sleep in his Lady Office.
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Soloand Osokosi said:
How typical of Fanny, three days travelling and she doesn't even shower and change before sitting down for dinner. She really was channelling her inner Little Edie tonight doing a poor imitation of the flag dance with poor mistreated Ratso.
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That dancing bit with Funky Fanny was really bizarre! Poor Lancelot- he looked terrified!
 
graciemckitten said:
She is desperate for content! Milking the trip back to the Dump with 3 videos? Is she setting up a storyline where they “ buy” the puff mobile at a huge discount ( to cover up for purchasing the vehicle months ago)? I smell a set up to officially debut the Puffmobile as Fanny’s car or phi phi’s car. Didn’t she say she was going to buy him a car?
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You're on to something... she's always setting up some future scheme.
 
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