Imperial Family Claimants...Part 2

[Count_Valentin]

To: the party needing rescue, some uninhabited South Sea Isle

Message begins -
Received your request for monkey - STOP
Monkey airlifted our location this day - STOP
Expect arrival your island in 3 days' time - STOP
Will keep sharp eye out for cormorant feathers - STOP
Has Anna resolved wet silk stocking problem - STOP
Tattoos and other odd behavior not surprising - STOP
Count V.

[Margarita Markovna]

I'm sitting here watching all of this going on and I realize it's Friday. Tashenka should be here any minute wearing her red velvet (courtesy of Count Valentin).

[Margarita Markovna]

Today was the show, put on by the director wo whom we sent the letter of complaint with the Royal Seal. It came out ok, at least what I could see from the side .


Might join you on the island. Getting the rowboat out again. I asked my mother to make me a sandwich so I will be bringing food supplies.

[anna]

Monsieur Le Comte dearie,

Tattoos and other odd behavior not surprising?

What else do you expect? We just sit around, have decent conversation and smoke sigars?

Imagine: Moi on an island with Tsar D. and Imperator Georgy.  
I'm the Tsars ears and eyes for a long time now, even had the same drama teacher, so the bone in his nose and the feathers in his ears doesn't surprise me at all. A good Tsar adapts the culture of every island he visits, as long as he doesn't eat its inhabitants.

Imperator Georgy awfully nice chap, speaks haiku all the time, only he wants us to eat raw fish and uses MY SILK STOCKINGS as fishing gear.

Look..... S.S.s (Sandie Shaw sang) her "Puppet on a String" barefooted. But "There's always something there to remind me" and that's a GD/Spy cannot present the "Most Promising Male Vocalist" without her silk stockings, that's simply not done.

Monsieur Le Comte, I will end this message...we are not amused and I'm having the double eagle tattooed on "My left foot".

Anna

Ps. GD Margaritha M, please ask you mom to make three sandwiches. Tsar D. likes them with peanut butter, Georgiy with raw sardines and for me a turkey sandwich with a touch of mayonnaise.
Don't forget: Row row row your boat, gently down the stream

[Douglas]

On The Island

Eating peanut butter sandwiches all day.   This a wonderful life here but we would really like to get off this place as soon as we can.  Count Valentin arrived today.  We are happy to see REX our little monkey.  I also understand that we are leaving this island by boat tonight at midnight and are sailing west.  Count Valentin will advise as to our destination.  GD Anna looks more like a tatoo parlor ad than her usual self these days.  I do understand that all of her tats are really the so-called 'temporary'  type that wash off in a month or so.  It was nice to see little Margarita here...she will go with us tonight to our next place of imperial refuge.  I took out my bone in the nose and now all I have are the feathers stuck here and there.  They call me the 'king of the Moiroi'.  I told them I am the Tsar but they have no clue.

Tsar Doug   :-/

[Margarita Markovna]

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. *big finish*

I used to think it was "merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, the wife is but a dream" when I was a little kid. I was like "this doesn't make sense!". haha...


They said it's nice to see me!!! Wheeeee!

I was quite astonished that all of what you guys were saying was true. I didn't know that the bone in your nose was really existant! So when I showed up in my red velvet (matches Tashenka's) and ruby slippers I felt quit eout of place!

[Georgiy]

What I miss the most/
Of our Isle of Chatham stay/
Is the raw sardines

I must apologise for using up all the silk stockings, but I had no choice. Thank goodness we are off the island now, and back cloistered into our every-day run-of-the-mill claimant lives. I'm thinking of mounting an expedition up Mount Eden to search for antediluvian relics. Mount Eden is a 300 metre tall volcano in the centre of Auckland. Anyone want to come along?
Georgiy Imperator

[anna]

Georgiy Imperator dearie,

Mount Eden? Are you....  ? Out of the question!! Before Tsar D.volunteers enthusiastically- (dear me this word is impossible for a foreign GD like me)  - the answer is no, he's going home to Tsarskoe Selo our own garden of Eden. For heavens sake the man must reign-(hope he will some day-- sigh) and keep an eye on the imperial chocolate production.

Anna acting like a real Empress

[Janet_W.]

Claimants:

All this talk of mounting I find most unseemly.

Or, perhaps it's just my hangover from being out with Paris and Paris earlier this morning.  

So, staggering back to bed to banish the elves, leprechans and other fey folk currently dancing in and out of my head and otherwise bedeviling me, I remain

The Still Rather Snookered GD/GP Janet

[Margarita Markovna]

I'm willing to go up a mountain! I climbed Mount Washington in September! I'll get out my hiking books, and my shirt made out of the material that if you sweat it doesn't freeze and kill you.

One vote: yay

[Count_Valentin]

Tsar D.,
I am most happy to have been able to assist in your rescue. I'm sure that GD anna will feel (and look) much more herself once the tattoos and the extract of poison dart frog that she's been smoking both wear off. As a connossieur of such things, it fair breaks my heart that anna's silk stockings were sacrificed to the necessity of food. I herewith send several pair of the finest silk stockings that I was able to obtain on my last trip to the Orient.

Though I recommend against expeditions to the mountains (and though I still don't understand all this talk about mounting), I stand ready to assist in any mountain campaign.

Must admit that Friday evening was quite the adventure in itself. Barely arriving with the motor launch in time to escort Margarita and Princess Tasha, I was forced to wear my royal blue dress uniform instead of the white one. I felt most out of place. The saving grace was the attraction of watching the two lovely ladies in velvet share a single pair of ruby slippers. Oo la la.

[Margarita Markovna]

Actually now we have acquired silver slippers, as they originally were in the Oz books, so each of us gets one silver and one ruby. So fancy, isn't it?

Blue, white, what's the difference?

[Margarita Markovna]

First post on a new page, oh man, I rule.

[anna]

Monsieur Le Comte dearie,

I'm very touched by your generous gesture. Oriental silk is, besides blings, a woman's best friend. I must say you now how to treat a lady
To show you my gratitude I would like to invite you for supper at the Palace tomorrow, Tsar D. is having his weekly bingo-dance so you can use the main entrance. I will send my Daimler sans license plate as not to be recognised. Shall we say 8.30pm?
We'll have supper by candlelight -not too much candles-because of the extract of frog poison I glow in the dark
As dessert I will play the balalaika and recite some of my poems

Anna

[Count_Valentin]

Madame Anna,
I would be honored to accept your invitation. 8:30 it is - I shall wait impatiently until then. Perhaps I too might bring some small offering of poetry for post-prandial enjoyment.

Count V.