The Chateau Diaries #325 Couldn't get the dog's ashes in the same country, got new one in another country

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ComtesseRose said:
As people have said. Don't be hard on yourself. Baking is a science and 20-ish years ago vegan/dairy-free/egg-free/gluten-free baking wasn't a thing as it is now.
As a bake off fanatic, I'd say do a ru-demption - if you feel for it of course. 💖



I'd say 325 thread is quite the succes. Are we still the forum with the second most threads. I'd call that a success story, unlike PlumsToBe's channel. LOL.
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No it was quite hard to find egg substitutes back then. I can’t remember what I used but it was probably something weird.
 
I'm sensing a theme to the ugly artwork at the shitoo? Flowers in a blue & white vase.
Also, look at all the bric-a-brac crap sitting on top of the expensive Givenchy secretaire, but the taxidermy bird is the worse. :sick:

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Lady Lindy said:
When they were in the brocant in Sweden it really pissed me off theat Anna wasn't allowed to keep the things that she had chosen but had to run them all past Philip for his approval and he only let her have a couple of them!.... Cue me shouting at the TV!! 😡
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Reminiscent of Dan not letting Annalise buy a few plants in Brico back in the day, and look how that all ended. Pissed me off no end at the time.
Control freaks seem to run through the Chateau verse don’t they 🧐
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Beachgirl said:
Oh believe me it was bad but you are very kind.
I could use these photos on how not to make a turkey and ham pie demonstration. No cooked pie photo I’m afraid as it was burnt on the outside with lukewarm filling. 🤦‍♀️
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Loving the rolling pin mind 😂
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pink roses said:
Is it me or is Fannie a sarcastic condescending witch towards her mother?? Is there some thing I’m not getting ? is it British humor when she speaks to her?it is so offputting even if she is an old 🦇.
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No British humour does not stretch to putting your Mother down at every opportunity and turning her into figure to ridicule.
It’s been a subtle change over the years. Once a power house, feisty women for rabid fans to admire, & someone Fanny consulted on all things to a gereatric stupid figure to mock for content.
I’m not defending Mummy at all btw, she’s a major player in the patron begging, but the transition has been a real eye opener.
Fanny allows Snorts to take the piss out of Mummy too which I find even worse and nauseous seeing as he’s not got a pot to piss in and lives on immoral earnings, for want of a better phrase.
They’re all the same, disgusting 🤬
 
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Fanny declares she will bake a cake on packing day…the pathetic cracked and chipped.com store has sold 40 orders and it looks like eight boxes on the table for this weeks ‘ packing day’ . Fanny tells us the work is arduous! Snorts has bought new boxes a new big pen a tape roller and has help from three people! They are pathetic.
I don’t think this shop will carry on for long , as Snorts said,he prefers to unbox things rather than pack them. Lazy .

Fanny could not put the almond icing on the cake as Snorts is lergic. Yet she put butter in and he is lergic and flour and he is lergic…more lies or just that Snorts is a faddy eater.

I see Snorts is fashioning a pig tail .
 

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pink roses said:
Is it me or is Fannie a sarcastic condescending witch towards her mother?? Is there some thing I’m not getting ? is it British humor when she speaks to her?it is so offputting even if she is an old 🦇.
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That sarcastic, patronising manner drives me wild. She also uses it when she's not speaking to anyone, but just talking at the camera. It's awful, it's a sort of mocking tone. Brits do tease quite a lot but it's usually wittier. Fanny does it all for the camera and when she's being sarcastic to others, it's because she is trying to make herself appear superior to them. I think a lot of attention-seeking people do this when there's an audience; they try to put others down.
 
pink roses said:
Is it me or is Fannie a sarcastic condescending witch towards her mother?? Is there some thing I’m not getting ? is it British humor when she speaks to her?it is so offputting even if she is an old 🦇.
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No. You are correct. Despicable fanny is a sarcastic, condescending witch to her mother. She despises her. That is not British humour. That said, maman 🦇 certainly warrents it.
 
Snorty says he's double-boxing items for shipment but where are all the shipping boxes? It appears Snorty is just re-using some used Amazon boxes & bubble wrap they've received. Have they not ordered any proper personalized packing boxes? No Jarvis-Jansen labels? No bubble wrap dispenser? No beautifully folded, scented tissue paper? No lovely ribbon? None of Daddy's wrapping paper? No personalized notes? No computer nearby to track shipments? No label printer? Just Snorty scribbling on the box with a fat, black marker pen?

Also, why carry all the items outside and over to Baghead's apartment for wrapping, instead of staging, wrapping and shipping all the items from the new china room?

It's all very amateur & inefficient. If I didn't trust them, I'd say Snorty is just boxing this crap to put away in the storage containers!!!

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Jeeves said:
I wonder if @Iolair has read the detective novels set in France in World War 1, "The Dead of Mametz" and "Demons Walk Among Us." by .Dr Jonathan Hicks? I enjoyed them (I took them with me on one of our visits to the Somme.).

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Thank you (with hugs) for the recommendations. ❤ I haven't read them. I don't really read that much WW1 historical fiction. They are perhaps a bit too close to home. When work intrudes completely into leisure time, I go a bit stir crazy. However, I can highly recommend Parades End by Ford Maddox Ford.

I read mostly ancient historical fiction (murder, mystery, thrillers, war oriented plots) including the authors, Lindsey Davis, Ruth Downie, Marilyn Todd, Simon Scarrow, Linda S. Robinson, John Maddox Roberts, Steven Saylor and S.J.A. Turney - Rome, Greece and ancient Egypt. There are far too many authors to list. I read, or listen to Medieval fiction and Early Medival (Dark Ages) Maurice Druon is a favourite, as is Ellis Peters and Paul Doherty, Michael Jecks, S.J.Paris, Conn Iggulden, Robyn Young, and Umberto Eco. But my favourite books of that period are the Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwall. I absolutely love them! Anything involving crusades, Knights Templar, plague, peasants revolts, the English and French snapping at each others heels and making life a complete witch for each other, 100 years War, 30 Years War, Rift War, Vikings, the Norman's, the Mongols, the Ottomans, and the Mamluks, and anything by author Giles Milton. I also read much set during the Peninsula Wars, French Revolution and during Napoleon's conquests. I am a bit if a Russophile and read Russian history for fun. Love love love Mughal history too and any novel set in India. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh is a firm favourite. I read a lot of fiction and non-fiction set during the Raj of the East India Company, the Opium Wars, any book by William Dalrymple, and Japan's Edo period - another favourite being The 1000 Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell.

I rarely read fantasy or steam punk, or sci-fi, but do love the books of Scott Lynch (The Lies of Locke Lamora) and Joe Abercrombie (The First Law). I don't read horror or spy thrillers. If I was forced to choose a favourite author, it would be Sir Terry Pratchett... because, without a doubt, his Diskworld series is the perfect parody of all of the above.
 
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M&MsMom said:
Awww....I don't watch him regularly at all, but I did watch an episode where he talked about the Strawbridge chateau "rumored" to be up for sale and how it wasn't worth what they were asking. I got the impression that he felt all chateaus pretty much weren't worth the money they were being sold for and cautions everyone that renovating one is going to take way more money than you think it will.
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I haven't watched any of his videos however, I agree that in general 'chateaus pretty much weren't worth the money they were being sold for and cautions everyone that renovating one is going to take way more money than you think it will.' It depends on the state of the building and the scale of the work required and there will be exceptions.

Yesterday, while watching the stabilisation of a staircase at Chateau Purnon, Mr GM said, that place is a money pit. You either have the funds required to pay others do the work; or can generate funding for the work e.g. Tim and Felicity; or do most of the work yourself e.g. Patrick and Stuart, Amanda and Lincoln. LaLande doesn't even enter the equation. That hovel is simply used for exploitation just like everything else in Stephanie's life.
 
M&MsMom said:
Awww....I don't watch him regularly at all, but I did watch an episode where he talked about the Strawbridge chateau "rumored" to be up for sale and how it wasn't worth what they were asking. I got the impression that he felt all chateaus pretty much weren't worth the money they were being sold for and cautions everyone that renovating one is going to take way more money than you think it will.
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I hear he's got a new client. France, you have my sympathies

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Lady Avonlea said:
Snorty says he's double-boxing items for shipment but where are all the shipping boxes? It appears Snorty is just re-using some used Amazon boxes & bubble wrap they've received. Have they not ordered any proper personalized packing boxes? No Jarvis-Jansen labels? No bubble wrap dispenser? No beautifully folded, scented tissue paper? No lovely ribbon? None of Daddy's wrapping paper? No personalized notes? No computer nearby to track shipments? No label printer? Just Snorty scribbling on the box with a fat, black marker pen?

Also, why carry all the items outside and over to Baghead's apartment for wrapping, instead of staging, wrapping and shipping all the items from the new china room?

It's all very amateur & inefficient. If I didn't trust them, I'd say Snorty is just boxing this crap to put away in the storage containers!!!

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That's exactly what's going on. A scam to make it look like Thrush is industrious. Instead of looking like the lazy tit that he is. It's all going in the container storage. Why are no rabid fans bubbling over with excitement on the CD comments with the purchases they've just made... because no-one has. Cue planted comments in CD comments!

With the chapel work coming to a close fanny must literally shitting herself. Not all the stars have sold and if she can no longer vlog any work in the chapel, game over. End of star sales. Does any clever tattler have an idea of how many stars are unsold? It would serve the greedy witch right.
 
Fanny & Snorty, if you're really interested in decluttering she should:
- remove 1 item each week from every room in the shitoo (sell, donate or toss in the garbage, but don't put into storage). Hundreds of items would be gone within a year.
- have an annual spring and autumn clothes clear out
- stop encouraging gifts - how much tit are people still sending post-Crapeaux? Who the hell sent 4 boxes of dates?
- don't accept gifts from paying guests (just like Crapeaux, they're just trying to advertise their products for sale)
- join Shoppers Anonymous - start small - no shopping for 1 month
 
Beachgirl said:
I could be the leader in how not to cook. I do try my best but my cooking is dreadful. It even has its own name for any dish I cook without a recipe.
I remember making a cake for my sons 5th birthday. Admittedly it was difficult to make as he has an egg allergy but I tried my best. He wanted a dinosaur cake. I had a friend who was a chef, she was laughing so much I’m amazed she didn’t wet herself.
Anyway this is my contribution to how not to cook.
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AS long as it has lollies on it kids are usually happy! I made similar looking cakes for my kids, though I was allowed to use eggs so was easier!
 
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