The Chateau Diaries #333 In the TCD book, this chapter is called "Watch Stephanie piss all your money away".

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Lady Avonlea said:
The bats are back, and we're not talking about Mummy.

I recall about 3 years ago, when Selmar was still around, there was a storyline about bats living in the cellar underneath the terrace. Since bats are protected under the 1976 Nature Protection Act and can't be moved, I believe Fanny said something about this preventing repairs to the terrace. Voila, a year later Fanny heads back down to the cellar, and like magic, we're told the bats just upped and left of their own accord and the cellar is now clear of bats. How convenient for Fanny!

Quelle suprise to see a bat inside the shitoo flying around the Chinese Restaurant in today's CD. It seems Fanny has bats in her belfry again, or more likely she lied and they never left. Whichever, does this mean work on the terrace can't proceed now? Gosh, what a convenient excuse Fanny would have for not fixing the terrace, but not returning any of the money she's grifting for terrace repairs!
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I was so hoping to see "brave" Philip wielding a broom to coax the bat out the window and accidentally whacking the Ardmore vase off the credenza!
 
Let's all face it Stephanie isn't interesting enough to hold our attention for one conversation now, let alone her endless repetitious flogs. I am beginning to think her and her sappy patreons deserve one enough, both filling up a void in the others life. Stephanie has conned a lot of money, but ultimately she is not a happy woman, she has no true friends and has alienated the ones she once had. Everyone in her life is on the take, as is she, it is pathetic and sad, a wardrobe full of clothes and no where to go and no one who cares. I wonder what will happen to her when all the old fans dissipate which they will. Where will she get her narc supply? She is already looking like the Old Mrs Skeffington crossed with Baby Jane, a desperate, fake, aging want to be. The whole tit show is full of misfits people who can't live in the real world.
 
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Hoping any Tattler in Southern Spain is OK. The floods are on a biblical scale. Huge areas acoss the South are affected. Valencia City looks like a war zone and under water, Albecete,Malaga, Cadiz, and so on. Watching the news here as I type. It's devastating for so many and I feel blessed to be in a region that appears to have got off lightly. More storms expected later tonight
 
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NotAChatelaine said:
The “40,000€ fountain” seems to have become embedded in Tattle mythology! However, unless my memory is completely scrambled by Stephanie’s ability to confuse, the 40,000€ relates to all groundwork in the area outside the chapel: The French drains around the chapel, pipe work to and installation of the underground reservoir/tank and trenches for electricity to run into the chapel from the main supply. Additional work was added, to include trenches for water and electricity connections to where the new fountain is to be located. Subsequently, there was a further add on with the job to include making a concrete standing for the fountain. The outside contractors will also be building the fountain base before the actual fountain structure is plonked in the middle.

While they’re doing all of this, I hope someone has had the foresight to install an outside tap/s on that side of the house! The nearest outside /standpipe is in the potager. Hence Armoire going backwards and forwards with a water bowser when they planted up Davey’s miniaturised version of a jardin à l’anglaise.

It amuses me no end that Stephanie is so far removed from reality that she is always amazed at the speed at which professIonal contractors work, it’s clearly a source of wonderment. A revelation for her to see what happens when the grown ups enter the room!
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Even if the Fountain has become somewhat "mythical" at €40,000 the works you describe would never equate to 40k. About Six months ago I had all the drains/rainwater drains, heating pipes, water pipes, electric gaines and fibre gaine installed to three buildings (my main house and two barns) with a lot of them being linked between properties. I didn't have a rainwater cistern installed (materials including pump €2K) but I did have 35m2 of concrete for a base prepped(10 tonnes of concassée) and concrete slab poured in addition. The guys refilled everything correctly with couscous gravel and an avertisseur. Two guys, a digger and an evacuation truck with the job done in a week costing just shy of 15K.

For fanny to extract 40k from her business it equates to around 65K in grifted funds. So If fanny has written checks for 600k (I don't think she has) she has taken over €1million in grifted funds to do so.
 
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Hoping any Tattler in Southern Spain is OK. The floods are on a biblical scale. Huge areas acoss the South are affected. Valencia City looks like a war zone and under water, Albecete,Malaga, Cadiz, and so on. Watching the news here as I type. It's devastating for so many and I feel blessed to be in a region that appears to have got off lightly. More storms expected later tonight
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We're just getting to see news coverage on national news here in France. It looks horrendous. We have many friends in that part of Spain too. Courage to any tattlers caught up in it.
 
Elviemary said:
Perhaps you should stop watching the Pethericks too.
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I don't. It suffices to watch one vlog to know what the rest are like as they are very formulaic. My viewing options (I'm completely allergic to Stephoney – her vlogs are so boring they’re enough to send you into a coma!) are extremely limited and are now confined to Chateau de Pican. I started watching Our Chateau Life but stopped when they began mentioning Patreon and begging for money ... . Asking for money in a chateau that cost €915 K is beyond the pale!
 
Seeingitasitis said:
Tattlers - someone is asking - I need your help. I know this is not chateau related, but it is related to Tattler skills I have seen time and time again. So I need an investigative sleuth who will be patient with someone with no computer skills. So I am watching The Voice - the semi final - on Youtube. The contestant (who has gone on to win) in that semi final is called Ava. She is wearing a soft, multi-coloured top - very boho looking. I have no idea how to capture, or reverse image or track down where to buy that garment - but I know some of you on here do have those skills. Can you direct me to where I can buy one of those tops please?
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@Tea with lemon work your magic.
 
tarteauxfruits said:
Even if the Fountain has become somewhat "mythical" at €40,000 the works you describe would never equate to 40k. About Six months ago I had all the drains/rainwater drains, heating pipes, water pipes, electric gaines and fibre gaine installed to three buildings (my main house and two barns) with a lot of them being linked between properties. I didn't have a rainwater cistern installed (materials including pump €2K) but I did have 35m2 of concrete for a base prepped(10 tonnes of concassée) and concrete slab poured in addition. The guys refilled everything correctly with couscous gravel and an avertisseur. Two guys, a digger and an evacuation truck with the job done in a week costing just shy of 15K.

For fanny to extract 40k from her business it equates to around 65K in grifted funds. So If fanny has written checks for 600k (I don't think she has) she has taken over €1million in grifted funds to do so.
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If her lips are moving she's lying. No doubt about that. I think the costs of your works are nearer the mark. And similar works, I imagine. @JackSpratt new fosse sceptique costing would probably be close to the works and cost too. She's such a liar and the fans let her. The dump accounts in the comment section close anyone down from questioning.
 
CountessPompidoo said:
Hoping any Tattler in Southern Spain is OK. The floods are on a biblical scale. Huge areas acoss the South are affected. Valencia City looks like a war zone and under water, Albecete,Malaga, Cadiz, and so on. Watching the news here as I type. It's devastating for so many and I feel blessed to be in a region that appears to have got off lightly. More storms expected later tonight
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Just messaged friends of ours who lives in Vélez Màlaga, they're ok lots of flooding, he's said a lot of people dead or missing. Luckily they're higher up.
 
Moaboa is the anti-Stephanie, the Kryptonite.
Here she cuts a Godzilla of ivy off her house, srsly, you've never seen anything like it, shinnying along the roof ridge.

And here she drives her own cherry picker to replace her own roof tiles.

Her longtime acquaintance and fellow Courageous Grrl, Anna Lindgren, is also fabulous, compleat with Scandi noir mental health ads and adorable, loving chickens, who follow her around like feathery puppies.
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Gertrude Maud said:
We've already gone down that path Caroline. Annelise is not a teacher . . . a classroom assistant/aid at most.
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Wasn't she a temporary lunchtime supervisor ? I'm sure that's what she said and recall her saying that her position (maternity cover?) had ended.
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C'est moi said:
I doubt that she is even that. You need childcare qualifications for that, being a mum doesn't cut it in France. The French are stringent about who looks after kids these days, as they should be. She probably does the same as I did when my boy was at ecole and volunteer's as an extra pair of hands for trips and school fêtes. Anything that is going on outside of the normal classroom routine be it a trip on a coach to a museum or the zoo or a walk down the road to the pompiers caserne or a local farm. I don't need to tell you lot that kids interest flies with curiosity and then they wander! Hands on deck. She may go in and read to them in English, I used to do that too. The class teacher was always present as I was no teacher and don't know the tricks of the trade to get kids, other than my own, to open up and participate. She might get to do a playground duty, but again certain qualifications would be required: childcare and first aid. My boy managed to knock himself out while he and his mates were all pushing to get through the classroom door. I guess it didn't help he had a broken arm at the time! And background checks are always required.
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Teaching assistants in the UK have a variety of qualfications from NVQ2 to NVQ5 and degree level and reflects the level at which they are employed. This may range from Level 1/2 supervision of small groups under the direction of a teacher,, preparing materials, etc to preparing lessons as qualified HLTA status (Higher Level Teaching Assistant) marking, covering whole classes, monitoring progress of interventions, line management of support staff and students and leading certain areas of the curriculum (eg wellbeing, various interventions.) depending on specific training, qualifications, experience, etc.
 
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JanePlain said:
Simon Lewis (The Father) was also Head of Comms at Buckingham Palace for a while & now does a weekly Podcast on BBC Sounds where he discusses current Media/PR/big story issues with David Yelland (ex Sun Editor ..Boo Hiss … so ostensibly another Murdoch bottom feeder except this one appears to have seen the error of his ways these days & actually now talks a lot of sense)
They both give interesting insights into the transactional relationships between press/media/politics/royals & all of those others in the news for usually the wrong reasons etc.
It’s a good listen … it’s called ‘When It Hits The Fan’. Not sure if it features on other Podcast providers as BBC hard to get outside UK
Anyway .. just thought I would mention in case anyone was interested…
PR/Comms seems to be the family trade
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Very interested. Not just because Will Lewis is doing something terrible to American democracy, with the permission of the idiotic Jeff Bezos (working to detach all connection of 25 years to Ama, including switching to Powells and their ebook service, tit!).

But because she doesn't know JTB and I have another "hiking" "date" in November, up the King Charles III English Coastal Path, this time. Past his hometown of Morpeth. In our oilskins and matching wool merino booty shorts in "Sun-baked".
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I think I might just cozy down in the Koh Lanta suite at Newton Hall in Alnwick? While JTB hikes north and south on the trail. Daytrips.
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Tea for two. every afternoon.
 
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