*giggles madly*

[essayel]

Paul has been to a shoot today - longbow not guns - up on a country estate the other side of Crickhowell. It was a decent day, everyone had masses of fun and the lady hostess, laid on a good tea for all the archers afterwards. All terribly civilised, as one would expect from a family blue blooded enough to have had a daughter entrusted with the welfare of Wills and Harry Windsor when they were babies - being related to the late sainted Princess Di didn't hurt either.

Anyhow, Paul's just been chuckling about how their hostess came and took the weight off a while with him and his mate Les and had a nice chat about the weather and how the bright mornings made her wake up really early.

After swapping dog walking experiences she confided in them that yesterday morning she got up at five, went to the bathroom and shot two rabbits through the bathroom window. Yes! She keeps a .22 rifle complete with silencer in her bathroom to shoot rabbits without inconsiderately waking the rest of the household.

It's nice to know that the old standards haven't dropped.

Comments

[innerslytherin]

It's always nice when you can shoot rabbits without leaving the bathroom. I probably shouldn't be envisioning Archie's mum from Monarch of the Glen...and yet I am. *G*

[celticangel76.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

*reads that again*

*blinks some more*

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

That sounds like my brother's dream house - he rang me last week to tell me he had shot a squirrel in his pyjamas that morning (insert Groucho Marx joke here).

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Yes, any oik can shoot rabbits at an ungodly hour of the morning but it takes real class to think ahead and obtain a silencer so one can do it without causing a stir.

Now, tell me honestly - if I'd written that in a fic would you have found it hard to believe?

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Yep, I did a lot of blinking, too.

Though I shouldn't be surprisd. Lady Verdin where I was brought up, had two blue and white porcelain Spode lavatory pans in her sitting room planted up with begonias.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

[celticangel76.livejournal.com]

Ok in the garden I might could overlook but in the SITTING ROOM?

[innerslytherin]

I don't think there's anything I wouldn't believe of English aristocracy. ^_~

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Annie Verdin's mother???

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. Maybe grandma. She was married to Sir Philip who I honestly thought was an ex-pirate when I was a kid, on account of the eyepatch.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

They went out in the garden fairly rapidly when they realised that their 2 year old grandson, vastly proud of being potty trianed, was sneakily using them for their original purpose.

[celticangel76.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!