A day of raised fingers, and raised highbrows...

It had started on a high note, and the raised finger was my pinkie, as I carefully lifted my cup of tea to my lips, in the artfully decorated Dower House, hardly believing my luck at having been granted a rare audience with Lady Findhorn and His Lordship. 
I was flabbergasted when I realised that I was invited to rest my cup on the "His Lordship" coaster.
Some honours are just simply too great for a man of lower extraction, and too much responsibility to carry. I was petrified at the idea of dropping even a molecule of tea onto the hallowed artefact. 
I considered asking about the possibility of having a lesser coaster placed over his Lordship's one but I got shy. 
I had a most pleasant blether with Her Ladyship and many topics were covered while I sipped my tea (a skill I wish I had managed to keep up all day...), from travel to parenting to today's workplace to grand-parenting to legacy & recording of the present for the future generations. 
We also discussed David77's somewhat inconsistent use of the subjunctive mood, a weak spot for a pedant who so publicly ridicules those who misuse their possessive pronouns. 

Whatever compelled me then to leave this haven of good taste and refinement to join a bunch of hoodlums in a shabby public house is beyond me... 

What happens in Cafe Royal, stays in Cafe Royal (or is soon forgotten in an Armageddon of neurons while slumped in an armchair at 1 AM).

Unless some bollix has a camera...  
In this case there were 9 of these bollixes. 
An old tribe of misfits formerly known as blippers. 
Gathered by 'imindoors for a wake. 

The password to the shocking scenes that took place in the Cafe Royal has only be shared with the participants ('imindoors,Mr Smith, Red, Instography, Jaybroek, Dwalletta, Craftynini and Cigs) 



















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