Friday Night... It's "Pata Pata" Time!...Get Your Groove on Gurl....

Hello Dhaaarlings...

Princess just feels like Dancing... 


You're more than welcome to join me...

Princess Performs for your Pleasure....

Hello Dhaaarlings...


How about a little song to welcome in the new year???

Sing along if you know the words darlings....

My Favourite Colour...

More of the same but different!

Read More About The Artist  "Here"

What is your favourite colour Dhaaarling?

A Little Musique If You Please...

something to chillax with...

Who Cares Who I Love....

Love is Universal - 


The images are by Canadian Artist Steve Walker, 


the song was produced for the


Matthew Shepard Foundation



Nuff Said

I'm singing a rainbow.

Hello Dhaaarlings...


I've been thinking lately how sometimes one stumbles across a song that is often sung to children...


Then find that it had it's origins in more adult themed originals...


I give you the following to consider...

This Angst ridden number about a love gone wrong..




It's weird how this has been turned into a kids sing along song....










Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy huh?


I think Not!

Meet Aunt Shirley...

Compare and Contrast if you will...

Mellow Moments....

Time to Chill out with some Cello Dhaaarlings

Take a quiet moment to appreciate the musical styling's of  "Zoe Keating" 

Come sit with me by the lake while we watch the sun set on another busy day...

That's Right Bette.... Tell us how you really feel.?.......

"The Wonder Wall"... or... "Displaying Your Junk"....Tastefully....

Hello Dhaaarlings...

And welcome to the second instalment in my series of Water Wise Gardens...

Is your house full of "Object(ionable) de yart's" that are cluttering up your Palais?

Don't know what to do with that hideously ugly vase that dear old demented Aunt Dorothy (I always said that her taste was all in her mouth) gave to you for safe keeping?.... "Because...I know that you have always admired it Dear"

You know... the one that you deep down in your heart of hearts rally can't stand... and ...you just wish that one day a clumsy houseboy would knock over and smash but it never ever happens? 

Well has Princess got the Ideal solution for you Dhaaarlings!

Create your very own "Water Wise Garden"...

"Wonder Wall"...

(People will wonder... "What the hell were you thinking?")

(Well... I'd be thinking of somewhere to display Aunty Dot's Rubbish Vase that wasn't anywhere indoors)

Just gab some old timber that you have left over from that do it yourself "Palais Extension"

We all have some of that laying about now don't we?

Bolt it all together adding some shelving and a couple of lovely panels of stained glass... (nicked from the church demolition site up the road... late at night... with your trusty torch in hand at the ready)...

Once it's erect...

Have a ball... Go crazy... Fill it up with all those "fugly" pots and vases that you have been gifted over the years and really cannot abide...

[via]

 and yet...  guilt ... sentimentality... prevents you  to part with... for fear of incurring the wrath of the giver... particularly Aunty Dot...

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A handy hint is to fix the objects in place using a cement of some type so that they will not be bothered by the weather and will survive stray children wandering in off the street and into your garden, using your "Wonder Wall" as a climbing gym...

(I find a slingshot and a small pile of pebbles kept nearby comes in handy for just such an occasion)


And as far as cleaning goes... just give it a quick squirt with your hose when the neighbours aren't watching... to rid it of dust

Et Viola!

You have the perfect place to display dotty old Aunty Dot's

Crap Vase.

An eye catching addition to any garden don't you think?

The best thing about it is that it will not add to your water account... as it needs no watering to survive! Ideal for a Water Wise Garden 

 Aunty Dot will just be delighted to see that you have her precious vase out on display on her next visit while you take tea with her outdoors in the garden....

Make it your own little Oasis...

Photography By Princess {unless otherwise credited}

Garden Feature Wall Display:- Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, Victoria

Shafted.....

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I think I've just been shafted... Dhaaarlings...

No Milk Today...

The Milkman Cometh....

A husband gets home from the Pub and says to his wife...

"Darling... I heard a rumour down the pub tonight that disturbed me...

George was saying that our new milkman...

Has shagged every women in our steet... bar one...

You wouldn't know if there was any truth in the rumour would you?"

"Well Dear if I had to guess.... 

I'd say it's probably that bitch Geraldine over the street at number 47"... 

And to think that the company was gay and all...

Fur Cat Lovers...Everywhere...

Harry Roy

1920's Band Master....

You Must Remember This......

Hello Dhaarlings...

Princess has been taking a walk down memory lane and found this old thing...

 

It bought back so many conflicting memories for me...


It was many moons ago when Princess was just a wee slip of boy in his early to mid 20's...


It was my first big adventure out to a Really Truly Nightclub...

I Know... How sad I hear you say... Poor sheltered Princess didn't go to his first ball until his 20 somethings...


Well I was a very late developer...

 I had just started a new job and met some terrific people... and one of them in particular had caught my eye... even tough I couldn't understand why... but to me... he was just... well... gorgeous...

Lets call him "John" shall we?

Dark haired, Dark brown eyes, Olive skinned and a beautiful body... well proportioned and nicely toned in all the right places. A wonderfully disarming smile... Great sense of humour, confidence and sense of himself.... 

Do you get the picture Dhaaarlings?...

Looking back.... All the things that I felt at that time that I didn't have...

We hit it of pretty well which surprised me as I didn't think I had much to offer but we became close friends spending a bit of time with each other both at and outside of work...Nothing of a sexual nature ever occured...

He had himself a girlfriend after all... And he would often invite me along to join them at the beach or for drinks and a meal... which was lovely...

But from time to time I would find myself having these sexual fantasies about him. They caused me some alarm really. I guess I probably had a huge crush on him but somehow managed to keep my feelings to myself at the time. These feelings generated a recurrance of all those feelings I had during my earlier school years... which I thought I had managed to suppress.

I suppose this could have given me the opportunity to examine those feelings more deeply however...I continued to attempt to deny the attraction to men that already existed within me. 

I know!... It was a terrible struggle... but I just wasn't ready to face facts.

 Often a group of us would go for yum cha for breakfast of a weekend and more often than not... as I was the only one with a working car... I would pick up those wanting a lift along the way into Chinatown.

The first time I called to pick "John" up for breakfast he met me at the door wrapped in a towel and just out of the shower. He invited me in and proceeded to chat away while getting dressed in front of me I thought that it was just a case of he running late or me being early... But on other occasions he'd be in his briefs.   

 Of course I'd be all embarrassed and break into a sweat and lose track of the conversation and find myself distracted but trying not to openly stare at him.

I guess that he was just the type of guy that was totally at ease within his own skin and thought nothing of inviting me in and chatting away in front of me as he got himself dressed to go out.

And at that time of course I was still heavily into self denial regarding my sexuality...

I wasn't meant to be having these feelings about another guy and particularly one that was a friend and even more particularly... one that was already going out with one of the other girls in the group... and him gadding about in a towel or his Y fronts.

He seemed genuinely oblivious to my predicament...

Anyway one night a group of us decided to go to a nightclub..

Never having been to a night club I had no idea of the dress code and the "big beefy door bitch" for some apparent reason wasn't going to let me in. He felt that my shoes were "inappropriate". I was terribly embarrassed... as all my friends had already passed the fashion police and were inside already.

It was then that my object of lustful thoughts "John" came to my rescue. 

  

He went sidling over to the "big beefy door bitch"... and caught his attention for a quiet chat... they both looked in my direction then there gaze dropped to my my shoes... and shared laugh between them. The next thing I  knew. "John" is calling me over saying that things were sorted and that I could join him inside with the others....

We grabbed drinks on the way past the bar and found the others in our group.

Of course the discussion stared as to why I hadn't come in with the rest of them... John had great delight in relating his discussion with the "big beefy door bitch"....

    

"I went over and explained to him that Princess was just a boy from the country on his first big night out in the city and could the he "door bitch"

make an allowance for his country charm and ignorance"

The others all fell about laughing on hearing this... And laughed even more

when I blurted out... "But..."John" that is exactly the truth. It is my first time at a nightclub!"

He looked dumbfounded...

Anyway... We all headed for the dance floor and were bopping away to some terrible 80's disco... when this song came on...

Halfway through this song playing I felt these arms embrace me from behind and a chin rest on my shoulder...I initially froze. I'd never had this happen to me before by either a girl or a guy. Then as I eventually eased myself around to see who it was... I realized it  was "John". In a lowered voice he said...

 "I'm really sorry Princess, I didn't mean to embarrass you like that but I didn't realize that this was really your first time". And with that kissed me on the neck. I was totally overwhelmed with emotion and wanted to kiss him right back... on the lips... in the middle of the dance floor. But I stopped myself. 

I just stepped back... I think in shock and wanting the ground to open up and swallow me in  my embarrassment. I remember mumbling something like 

"Er... that's alright" As he let go of me and and moved around to join the circle a little further around.

This interaction stirred feelings within me that I would grapple with for years.

I think that it was the first time that I had truly been attracted to a guy that I really knew... and that I had sexual feelings for which confused me and was then actually in a physical situation with him.

We remained friends while we worked together but not as close... I found it hard to be around him when I was on my own... knowing that the relationship would not go any further than a friendship. But it did start me to really think about my sexuality and the possibility that I was gay... Hey I'd always had thoughts that I was.... but denial is a very powerful thing.

Back on the dance floor...

Still stunned... I took a sip of my drink and it was then my turn to stand there looking dumbfounded.

And in the background "Baltimora" kept on singing about his "Tarzan Boy" 

Everytime I hear it... I still tingle with the memory of those arms and that kiss.

Embraceable You....

Have This Kiss.... Forever?....

Well could I Dhaaarling?

The Tracks of my Tears...

Hello Dhaaarlings...

 

It seems that my lower back has decided to desert me...

Any suggestions?

Bel Ami...

Eva Busch... singer

Born. Berlin, Germany


Died. July 21 (?25), 2001, Munich, Germany


(née: Eva Zimmermann)






She was the illegitimate daughter of Franz Beidler, the son of Wagner, and a then famous singer, Emmy-Zimmerman Burg. In Berlin she met her first husband, actor Ernst Busch (a Communist sympathizer) when they sang cabaret songs together at the Berliner Volksbuehne. In the early 1930s, she recorded her first disc.



In 1933, after the Nazis seized power, the couple fled to Holland. Two years later, they separated, by mutual consent, when Ernst left to fight for the Spanish Loyalists against Generalissmo Franco, who was supported by Germany.


 




Eva returned to Paris, France, where she sang in various cabarets, and in 1940, recorded probably her most famous song: "Bel Ami" ("Beautiful Friend"). After the German invasion in France, she became an internee in 'Camp Gurs'.


In late 1944, after the defeat of the Nazis, she was released and briefly performed songs for civilians and military personnel in Germany. She then returned to Paris and resumed her international career. For the next 30 years, she sang in cabarets, on the radio and on television.
In the USA she toured with Bing Crosby. In Zurich, Switzerland, she appeared at Erika Mann's "Pepper Mill". Eva remained active until the 1970s. Among her best-known songs are


 


"Es sprechen so viele von Liebe, die gar nichts von Liebe verstehen"
 ("You talk so much about love, but know nothing of love")

 and




"Il ne faut pas briser un rêve"
("Don't destroy your dreams, even if they seem silly")

A song with special meaning at the date of its recording (Oct. 1940).
{Via} 



House Boy Hijinx....

Helloooo... Hic.... Dhaaarlings....

More Champagne Anyone?


I'm going for a fourth bottle.... Feel very free to join me here on the sofa...

But Before you do.... would you mind just clickerating that thingamejiggery

again for me?

Bottoms up Dhaaarlings...

Tantrum Time....

Hello Dhaaarlings

It's tantrum time at "The Palais"... and Princess...
 being her usual helpful self.... has found a chart showing some common positions that you might find instructive...

Try them out for yourself and let me know which one looks best on you....

Personally Princess Prefers the "Calm Before The Storm"

and let me tell you ... Lately the storm clouds have been gathering for a "Wing Dinger"

In the meantime... If the Cap Fitz...

Ahh... that feels better...