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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity, 5th Jan
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 		[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity, 5th Jan
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Granier diaries, installment two
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Time: 09:59 PM

Cymbalisty brought installment two of Granier's diary today - it was lucky he'd had it overnight, because one or two of the words were very tricky, and he'd had to spend a bit of time researching what ancient acronyms/contractions referred to. Anyway, we puzzled it out in the end. Here it is:

22 March 1736
Passed several hours in company with Mistress Mountling today. She, attempting to explain the convolutions of number which allow her, she declares, to know with certainty the effect of any mining before that operation has begun. I declared that if she can predict the future using numbers, she is surely a numerologist or fortune-teller of the kind employed at country fairs to entertain the simple-minded. She did not appreciate this witticism. I own that, once she had explained to me the basis for her calculations, her claim seemed less an idle boast. My Master's preparations have been long in the making. Nonetheless, certainty is needed. There will, Mistress Mountling informed me, have to be an experiment here, during our visit. This, it appears, is the reason that she accompanies me on this expedition. To her credit, Mistress Mountling seems to suffer some of the same pangs and regrets as I regarding this matter. She is a handsome woman. When not frowning over her books, one can see that she cannot be more than five-and-thirty.

24 March 1736
Hunting with my lord, while Mistress Mountling completed certain preliminary surveys of the mine site. Took some very fine game by the edges of the lake - banded ducks and seven Burg Fowl - and my lord proved excellent company, good-humoured and full of tales. Put to him EM's notion regarding an experiment. He agreed the thing must be done. Returned home to feast upon the game we had taken, but afflicted by an unaccountable melancholy. My lord, noting my mood, supplied the cure in the form of a chamber-maid sent to my rooms for sport.

25 March 1736
Dined upon a fine ham with spiced plums and roast parsnips. Rain all day, mining impossible. All but EM downcast. She positively delighted in her calculations and rather astonished I could not find useful work to undertake despite the rain. Mockery ensued. I see now that I was mistaken in my estimation of her age: she is at least forty.


Im taking it EM is the Mistress, but a bit more random reading for us all.
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 		I like Granier...he's a ridiculous fop. Very Happy

Granier wrote:
There will, Mistress Mountling informed me, have to be an experiment here, during our visit. This, it appears, is the reason that she accompanies me on this expedition. To her credit, Mistress Mountling seems to suffer some of the same pangs and regrets as I regarding this matter.


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Put to him EM's notion regarding an experiment. He agreed the thing must be done.


It sounds like they're lancing a boil.

Stretching things a bit, Edwina Mountling could be of an age to be Grandmother of Susan Marchant?
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Mikeyj wrote:
I like Granier...he's a ridiculous fop. Very Happy:


It's GuyP's ancestor...clearly.

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Dined upon a fine ham with spiced plums and roast parsnips


However I had that on Boxing day....get me.
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 		Re: [UPDATE] Quirky Acuity, 5th Jan
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Hunting with my lord, while Mistress Mountling completed certain preliminary surveys of the mine site. Took some very fine game by the edges of the lake


I read it as Mistress Mounting, was just thinking Granier was about to be MikeyJ's next film role. Laughing
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My lord, noting my mood, supplied the cure in the form of a chamber-maid sent to my rooms for sport.


Shocked

So did he get her to run whilst he shot arrows at her? Tennis? Long jump? Triathlon Wink
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 		duckiemonster, I don't think he meant THAT kind of sport... I think it would more of a Censored nature.
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duckiemonster, I don't think he meant THAT kind of sport... I think it would more of a Censored nature.

*sigh* Another one of my great attempts at humour shot down...


...but what is it with these PC chaps at the moment? They're all at it... something in the water?
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duckiemonster wrote:
*sigh* Another one of my great attempts at humour shot down...


I enjoyed it, anyway.

I know what you mean about the men - it was all so much simpler back then. Tally Ho! let's go huntin' Twisted Evil
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 		Now Juxta comes in, says something about Violet, and... Laughing

But, all Censored ing, Censored ing, Censored Censored ing, Censored Censored ing, and double reverse Censored Censored Censored ing aside, this is proving to be a curious tale, indeed.

Could we get someone to e-mail Violet about a date translation into AC/BC PXC years? It would just be nice, and chamber-maids don't exactly sound like remnants of a more civilized and technologically advanced period in Perplexian history. Of course, I could be totally wrong, but it's a bit muddling nevertheless.

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GasparLewis wrote:
double reverse Censored Censored Censored ing


I tried that once. Dislocated my shoulder.
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duckiemonster wrote:
GasparLewis wrote:
double reverse Censored Censored Censored ing


I tried that once. Dislocated my shoulder.


and i needed a hip replacement....have we met before? Embarassed
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 		Possibly... don't remember much about that night... Wink
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