The Guardian for this meeting was Agatha Macbeth. The comments are by Agatha Macbeth.

Agatha Macbeth: G'day Rid
Riddle Sideways: hy de ho
Riddle Sideways: Aloha
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder how Pila is?
Riddle Sideways: thanks, had forgot the hawaiians name
Agatha Macbeth: Herr Mulligan

I send an IM

Riddle Sideways: Oh! that is a neat way to call the troops
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
Agatha Macbeth: Whether they'll listen is another matter
Riddle Sideways: thanks for taking this slot
Agatha Macbeth: I am da slot girl
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, what movie is that from?
Agatha Macbeth: All I need to do now is think up things to talk about
Agatha Macbeth: What?
Riddle Sideways: o yeah there is that
Riddle Sideways: "what is the topic d'jour"?
Agatha Macbeth: Good question
Agatha Macbeth: This is where Aph comes in handy
Riddle Sideways: shoe laces and there place in the universe
Bleu Oleander: 's current display-name is "Bleu".
Agatha Macbeth: Going through both holes at once maybe
Bleu Oleander: heya
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Bleuji
Riddle Sideways: heya
Riddle Sideways: you are very spotty today
Agatha Macbeth: You're both well clear of storms and such I hope
Bleu Oleander: 106 and sunny here
Agatha Macbeth: Oh my
Bleu Oleander: dotty :)
Riddle Sideways: strangest thing to have thunder storms this morning
Agatha Macbeth: All this and cactus too
Mickorod Renard: Hi
Agatha Macbeth: Ello Mick
Bleu Oleander: its a harsh desert
Riddle Sideways: Hey Mick
Bleu Oleander: hiya Mick
Mickorod Renard: hiya all
Riddle Sideways: how can people live in a desert
Agatha Macbeth: Is it true you can get water from a cactus?
Bleu Oleander: yes
Agatha Macbeth: Wow
--BELL--
Bleu Oleander: takes a lot of ac
Aphrodite Macbain: 's current display-name is "Aph".
Agatha Macbeth: Ac?
Bleu Oleander: air conditioning
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Aphie
Agatha Macbeth: Aha
Bleu Oleander: hi Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: Hey
Mickorod Renard: you can erect a shade thingy with plastic bag and capture condensed water
Riddle Sideways: acid clement
Aphrodite Macbain: How is everyone?
Agatha Macbeth: The Sorrentino lady
Aphrodite Macbain: grins
Mickorod Renard: Hi Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: I've been planning a harvest festival there
Agatha Macbeth: Nice
Aphrodite Macbain: makes me hungry
Bleu Oleander: :)
Mickorod Renard: oh yes, we should have one here soon
Agatha Macbeth: I remember landing in the middle of the stage there once
Riddle Sideways: break a leg?
Aphrodite Macbain: LOL I remember. You know how to make an entrance
Agatha Macbeth: No, I landed softly
Aphrodite Macbain: Any news from Eliza?
Agatha Macbeth: Right on the leading lady as I recall
Aphrodite Macbain: giggles
Bleu Oleander: I think still no power
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Aphrodite Macbain: in Georgia?
Bleu Oleander: not sure where
Agatha Macbeth: Rainy night in...
Mickorod Renard: he he
Aphrodite Macbain: groans
Bleu Oleander: but various spots were not as badly hit as anticipated
Aphrodite Macbain: more than just rainy
Agatha Macbeth: That's a blessing anyway
Aphrodite Macbain: I cant imagine what it must be like to have all your worldly belongings destroyed
Aphrodite Macbain: Insurance rates must be high there
Agatha Macbeth: Better than having yourelf destroyed anyway
Agatha Macbeth: 'Act of God'
Aphrodite Macbain: hmm
Agatha Macbeth: Strange expression
Aphrodite Macbain: more like the devil
Bleu Oleander: insurance rates?
Aphrodite Macbain: flood, disaster coverage
Aphrodite Macbain likes Bleu's polka dots
Bleu Oleander: ty! :)
Riddle Sideways: then the act of god trying to get the insurance company to pay you back
Agatha Macbeth: Dotty Bleuji
Aphrodite Macbain: cheerful :)
Agatha Macbeth: True
Bleu Oleander: its from a Damien Hirst dot painting :)
Aphrodite Macbain: cool
Aphrodite Macbain: I dont know his dot paintings
Bleu Oleander: google him
Agatha Macbeth: Oh it's paint tubes, not a gunbelt

                
Aphrodite Macbain: I will :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: I wonder whether it tickles to be Googled
Bleu Oleander: yes my ammo is paint :)
Agatha Macbeth: Silly me
Aphrodite Macbain: he he
Agatha Macbeth: The brush is mightier than the sword and all that
Bleu Oleander: indeed
Agatha Macbeth: And a lot easier to paint with
Bleu Oleander: make paintings not war
Agatha Macbeth: And tea
Aphrodite Macbain: "geometrically relentless spots"
Bleu Oleander: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: neat. Sort of like an impressionist with less paint
Bleu Oleander: yep
Aphrodite Macbain: speaking of tea - I'm going to get some....
Bleu Oleander: :)
Agatha Macbeth: No sugar for me
Bleu Oleander: make mine green pls
Agatha Macbeth: I'm sweet enough
Bleu Oleander: ha ha!
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Mickorod Renard: 2 and a half sugars for me please..well stirred
Agatha Macbeth: >.<
Bleu Oleander: way too much sugar!
Agatha Macbeth: You'll be jumping round the pavilion Mick
Mickorod Renard: so they say, but I am in the same size jeans as i was when I was 18
Agatha Macbeth: 0.0
Agatha Macbeth: Hope you changed them since
Mickorod Renard: well maybe 33" not 32
Mickorod Renard: :)
Riddle Sideways: and not buttoned?
Agatha Macbeth: The jean genie
Mickorod Renard: well, i do wear buttoned usually
Bleu Oleander: amazing what you learn at the pavilion lol
Riddle Sideways: lol
Mickorod Renard: :)
Agatha Macbeth: We're pretty amazing people
Bleu Oleander: of course we are
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: and modest
Bleu Oleander: that too :)
Mickorod Renard: I dont put salt in anything.if thats any good
Agatha Macbeth: It is
Agatha Macbeth: Saves high blood pressure
Mickorod Renard: but everything else thats bad for you I like
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: Such is life
Riddle Sideways: am still not eating meat
Agatha Macbeth: TY Aph
Mickorod Renard: I like the idea of just eating fruit
Aphrodite Macbain: I have honey if you need it
Mickorod Renard: ty
Agatha Macbeth: That reminds me I must get some grapes
Riddle Sideways: ty
Aphrodite Macbain: there's the honey pot
Riddle Sideways: didn't buy grapes... went right to wine
Aphrodite Macbain: Remember- I run a cafe in Sorrentina so can produce most food groups
Agatha Macbeth: The lady at the bar
Agatha Macbeth: Talking teacups
Mickorod Renard: ahhhhh!
Aphrodite Macbain: we will have grape stomping at the festival
Agatha Macbeth: Hope the grapes don't stomp back
Aphrodite Macbain: you can come and make your own Mick
Mickorod Renard: grapes?
Aphrodite Macbain: they just make your feet purple
Aphrodite Macbain: wine
Agatha Macbeth: I like green ones better
Aphrodite Macbain: green feet?
Agatha Macbeth: Nah
Agatha Macbeth: Grapes

Mickorod Renard: ah ok,,I did once upon a time make champagne
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: How was it Mick?
Agatha Macbeth: Make it?
Mickorod Renard: most was good..some exploded and some were a bit erk
Agatha Macbeth: How do you get it bubbly?
Mickorod Renard: i bought in concentrated grape juice
Mickorod Renard: ah ok
Riddle Sideways: trade secret
Mickorod Renard: no, secondary fermentation
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Mickorod Renard: it has yeast and sugar but you add more sugar a second time
Mickorod Renard: and then you trap out the residue of yeast
Mickorod Renard: freeze up the bottle a bit to reduce the bubbles and swap over the caps for propper cork and wire it up voila
Mickorod Renard: easy
Mickorod Renard: worst bit is waiting
Agatha Macbeth: 'It's the waiting that kills you sarge'
Mickorod Renard: and cleaning up the mess from exploding ones
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Agatha Macbeth: Big bang?
Mickorod Renard: do you remember Brian Clough?
Agatha Macbeth: Ye-es
Mickorod Renard: the football manager
Agatha Macbeth waits for the connection
Mickorod Renard: he used to get through lots..and I had his empty bottles to reuse
Agatha Macbeth: Cloughie did?
Agatha Macbeth: Wow
Mickorod Renard: cos they were propper quality hd bottles
Agatha Macbeth: I'd have thought him a Tetley's bitter man
Aphrodite Macbain: phone....
Mickorod Renard: kk
Riddle Sideways: so, you had his bottles?
Riddle Sideways: and they exploded
Agatha Macbeth: How did you get them?
Mickorod Renard: its worth trying to make it cos it has to be right..so there is a real challenge and then satisfaction if u pull it off
Agatha Macbeth: Do the big companies have blowups too?
--BELL--
Mickorod Renard: the ones that exploded were prob cheap ones, like asti spumante bottles
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Bleu Oleander: :)
Mickorod Renard: thats why i sourced the good ones
Riddle Sideways: remember that the bottles need to be turned
Riddle Sideways: as aging
Mickorod Renard: yes, and slight change to the angle
Agatha Macbeth: Chateau Mick
Riddle Sideways: back on the estates
Mickorod Renard: then I used to buy blanqut du limoux..it was champers but cheap from another region
Mickorod Renard: no point making it
Mickorod Renard: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanquette_de_Limoux
Mickorod Renard: oh sorry its in french
Bleu Oleander: gotta go kids ... take care
Mickorod Renard: bye bleu
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Bleuji
Agatha Macbeth: Stay dotty
Riddle Sideways: by
Agatha Macbeth: Oh it's a honey pot
Mickorod Renard: ?
Agatha Macbeth: Next to us
Mickorod Renard: ah

              
Riddle Sideways: yes, said pooh
Agatha Macbeth: Looked like a cake with a flake in it
Riddle Sideways: seems this is a "Share a little tea with Goldie" session
Riddle Sideways: use to love that
Agatha Macbeth: Goldie Hawn?
Agatha Macbeth: Goldie Locks?
Riddle Sideways: Leigh (something)
Agatha Macbeth: Goldie Leigh?
Agatha Macbeth: Dunno her
Riddle Sideways: Leigh French
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Agatha Macbeth: Still dunno her
Mickorod Renard: https://www.tesco.com/wine/product/d...x?id=253838883
Riddle Sideways: http://tokinwoman.blogspot.com/2011/...ith-leigh.html
Riddle Sideways: must be on youtube also
Mickorod Renard: you can get a whole case of blanquet for £54
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Mickorod Renard: when its in stock
Aphrodite Macbain: bk
Agatha Macbeth: WB
Agatha Macbeth: Your stockbroker telling you to sell?
Aphrodite Macbain: He
Mickorod Renard: /;0
Agatha Macbeth: @Put it in gold'
Aphrodite Macbain: a friend telling me her hips got dislocated
Aphrodite Macbain: cant imagine
Agatha Macbeth: OMG
Aphrodite Macbain: Couldnt move
Mickorod Renard: that must have took some doing
Agatha Macbeth: Both of them?
Aphrodite Macbain: Fortunately she had her cel nearby and could call for help
Aphrodite Macbain: Not sure
Agatha Macbeth: What was she doing? Break dancing?
Aphrodite Macbain: Just standing there
Agatha Macbeth: Not young then I take it
Aphrodite Macbain: no
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Aphrodite Macbain: 78?
Aphrodite Macbain: she lives alone, in the woods without internet
Aphrodite Macbain: and just a phone
Agatha Macbeth: Good grief
Aphrodite Macbain: I know
Mickorod Renard: its a big fear for me at the mo, I can feel the trasition taking place where I can't do stuff I used to do
Agatha Macbeth: Hope there aren't too many bears about
Aphrodite Macbain: She used to grow veggies and deliver them to me each week
Agatha Macbeth: Sweet
Aphrodite Macbain: now whe cant do much except sit or lie down
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: Mary
Mickorod Renard: owwww
Agatha Macbeth: Is she contrary?
Mickorod Renard: just trying to remember the words to that one
Aphrodite Macbain: :-) not at all, but grows veggies in a row
Agatha Macbeth: Wasn't it about Mary Queen of Scots or something
Aphrodite Macbain: the quite contrary one?
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
Agatha Macbeth: Or the other Mary
Aphrodite Macbain: Little maids all in a row?
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: Somebody royal I think
Aphrodite Macbain: silver bells and cockle shells
Aphrodite Macbain: funny what remains in one's memory
Agatha Macbeth: And what doesn't
Aphrodite Macbain: yes :-)
Mickorod Renard: http://whatdoeshistorysay.blogspot.c...hyme-mary.html
Agatha Macbeth: 'What did I walk in this room for?'
Aphrodite Macbain: like close friends' names
Agatha Macbeth: Then as soon as you leave you remember again

Mickorod Renard: maids in a row are genital torture devices
Riddle Sideways: did Maxine's book ever explain that?
Mickorod Renard: for women
Agatha Macbeth: Maxine's book?
Agatha Macbeth: You lost me
Aphrodite Macbain: reads Mick's url
Riddle Sideways: on where friend's names, what in this room, memories go
Aphrodite Macbain: /wonders why she looked
Agatha Macbeth: Oh dunno
Agatha Macbeth: Long and short term memory
Aphrodite Macbain: Did her book talk about that?
Mickorod Renard: no I didnt notice
Riddle Sideways: what I asked
Riddle Sideways: ok
Aphrodite Macbain: I dont think wew forget because things aren't important. I forget a lot of important things
Agatha Macbeth: Moi aussi
Aphrodite Macbain: (like friends names
Mickorod Renard: yes, lots of important things don't matter
Agatha Macbeth: And then remember things I did 50 years ago
Mickorod Renard: I have come to notice
Aphrodite Macbain: Often what we remember is like a connected string of things - like a nursery rhyme or a piece of music
Aphrodite Macbain: or it's connected to a sound or smell
Mickorod Renard: oh yes, well some things in the past were things that were fun
Agatha Macbeth: Like Proust
Aphrodite Macbain: (Proust's madeleines
Aphrodite Macbain: snap
Agatha Macbeth: Snap
Agatha Macbeth: Swan's way
Aphrodite Macbain: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm in the middle of reading the second volume...sigh
Aphrodite Macbain: not as good as swann's way
Agatha Macbeth: At this moment?
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Mickorod Renard: cool
Agatha Macbeth: What a coincidence
Aphrodite Macbain: about 500 pages....
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm on page 430
Aphrodite Macbain: He DOES go on
Agatha Macbeth: Soon find out who did it then
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Agatha Macbeth: Col. Mustard in the library
Agatha Macbeth: With the champagne bottle
Aphrodite Macbain: Fortunately every month or so other readers get together and discuss it
Mickorod Renard: I have never read it. is it worth a go?
Agatha Macbeth: That must help
Aphrodite Macbain: I never did trust Col Mustard
Agatha Macbeth: He was hot stuff
Aphrodite Macbain: Swann's Way Mick?
Mickorod Renard: he he
Mickorod Renard: either..or is that neither
Aphrodite Macbain: He used the poker in the drawing room
Agatha Macbeth: I'll be buggered
Mickorod Renard: dirty devil
Aphrodite Macbain: Yes- it's worth reading Mick but dont feel you have to rush through it or you'll be disappointed
Mickorod Renard: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Taste it
Aphrodite Macbain: savour it
Mickorod Renard: ty..
Agatha Macbeth: Sink your teeth into a good book
Aphrodite Macbain: He has amazing powers of description and observation
Mickorod Renard: I tried devine comedy but give up easily
Mickorod Renard: oh I love that, like a poe
Agatha Macbeth: Old Dante?
Aphrodite Macbain: He spent 4 pages describing the flowers on a hawthorne bush
Agatha Macbeth: Was it a big one?
Aphrodite Macbain: It gets worse as you go down
Mickorod Renard: oh, I would enjoy that..i like detail to loose myself in
Aphrodite Macbain: hell
Aphrodite Macbain: (Dante's Inferno)
Agatha Macbeth: This way to the basement
Riddle Sideways: that book really does feel like hell reading it
Agatha Macbeth remembers Brucie's drawing
Aphrodite Macbain: Virgil is a good guide tho
Mickorod Renard: anything is big unless it grabs you and carries you along
Aphrodite Macbain: nods
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Rid
Riddle Sideways: ok, folks. must be off
Aphrodite Macbain: Going Riddle?
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: Byee
Mickorod Renard: bye riddle
Agatha Macbeth: Stay flowery
Aphrodite Macbain: I should go too...
Agatha Macbeth: Tatty bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks for the chat
Mickorod Renard: me too, I got stuff to do..no kids tho
Agatha Macbeth: Don't forget the honey
Agatha Macbeth: She did
Agatha Macbeth: She didn't
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks!
Mickorod Renard: he he
Agatha Macbeth: :P
Agatha Macbeth: Always said she was potty

Agatha Macbeth: How's things down in the country then?
Mickorod Renard: well, thanks for the cha
Mickorod Renard: who me?
Agatha Macbeth: It's Aph's :p
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Mickorod Renard: ah
Mickorod Renard: arnt bu in the counry too?
Agatha Macbeth: Sorta
Mickorod Renard: country
Mickorod Renard: there isnt much in uk that isnt far from town
Agatha Macbeth: Or sea
Mickorod Renard: its ok here tho, was from derbyshire
Agatha Macbeth: Peak District?
Mickorod Renard: but pleanty of sheep and stuff like that here
Agatha Macbeth: Oo arr
Mickorod Renard: arrrr
Agatha Macbeth: Mucking out the pigs
Agatha Macbeth: Milking the bull
Mickorod Renard: nah, more south but hung around Ashbourne a bit
Mickorod Renard: for the pubs
Agatha Macbeth: Oh Ashbourne's lovely
Mickorod Renard: as a kid my father used to drop me off in the peak district with a compass and watched to see if I survived
Mickorod Renard: up chaple le frith
Agatha Macbeth: And did you?
Agatha Macbeth: (Kidding)
Agatha Macbeth: Chapel le Frith, wow
Mickorod Renard: i think so although sometimes I think this is an afterlife
Agatha Macbeth: Pixel heaven
Mickorod Renard: yeh, got caught out in snow storms a few times
Mickorod Renard: on the moors
Agatha Macbeth: With Cathy
Mickorod Renard: he he
Mickorod Renard: its a small counrty
Agatha Macbeth: Compared to most
Mickorod Renard: i like it here tho, but would prefer a shorter trip to the sea
Agatha Macbeth: Mm
Agatha Macbeth: Hello sailor
Mickorod Renard: he he
Agatha Macbeth: How's Ara?
Mickorod Renard: I like warm sea too, but then u get hurricanes
Mickorod Renard: ok
Agatha Macbeth: Hope she's behaving
Mickorod Renard: I am sure she is doing good
Agatha Macbeth nods
Mickorod Renard: I must go, ..ty for a fun session
Agatha Macbeth: She never found her hair
Agatha Macbeth: YW
Mickorod Renard: c y soon
Agatha Macbeth: TC