Welcome to the Risky Regencies Blog Party! Thanks for coming. Do come in, have a seat, have a glass of claret or a cup of tea.
In addition to mingling with other guests and your six hostesses (and of course me, Bertram St. James, Regency time-traveler extraordinaire), you have the chance to win prizes. Six daily prizes will be awarded, one for each day from Monday through Saturday, with a grand prize at the end of the week to the winner of the Treasure Hunt.
1. To be eligible for a daily prize, just submit a comment on any or all of the posts which appear each day from Monday through Saturday (January 9 through 14). The winning comment will be chosen based on its creativity, originality, or truthfulness — or perhaps on whether it made that day’s hostess snort with laughter.
2. You may continue to comment after the “day” of the post — all comments will be eligible for a prize, as long as they appear before the end of Saturday, January 14.
3. It is possible to win on multiple days.
4. Hedgehogs are eligible for prizes, but only if do not leave footprints in the blog.
5. Information about the Treasure Hunt rules and grand prize appear in the post entitled TREASURE HUNT.
6. Isn’t my waistcoat too beautiful for words?
7. The hostesses and their families are not eligible for prizes, although of course they are allowed to chatter as much as they want. They will anyway.
8. Tea is allowed to post comments as much as it likes, but only if it is real tea. It may have milk in it, or even sugar or honey, or a bit of lemon — but no mango, no vermicelli, no pantheon of primates.
9. All the prize winners will be announced next week — so do check back to see if you’ve won!
10. Gentlemen are encouraged to join in the fun. Bounders and cads, however, are not welcome. (You know who you are.)
11. Questions? Just ask by leaving a comment on this post! (To comment, you will need to be registered with the entity known as “Blogger” or “Blogspot” — but this process is free, and ever so delightful.)
Now, to the party!
Bertie the Beau, Regency Exquisite
Sounds like lots of fun!
Can crafty cats who have colds play? Gambit seems to think so.
Crafty cats are especially welcome, and if they have colds we offer them constant condolences.
But I confess I’m not quite sure who or what “Gambit” is…
Bertie
This reader who’s sitting in her pretty pink jammies sipping coffee..sorry no tea here..is going on a treasure hunt. LOL Sounds like so much fun.
Coffee is perfectly acceptable, though I do not drink it as often as I drink tea. I like Parisian Coffee best, with a bit of saffron in it.
Though I have to confess — your coffee today is much higher quality than English coffee was two hundred years ago! But then, the English were known for making bad coffee in my day. And excellent tea.
Bertie
(Cue Music)…
I’m gonna party like it’s Seventeen, ninety-nine
(bump ba, bumpbump ba da da…)
BTW, Bertie, that’s a song by Prince. Or the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. But not by an actual Prince. If you know what I mean.
Cara
Mr. St. James:
If you’re pouring coffee, I’m there. But what do I wear? Oh, I know–Old Navy! Suited Nelson, right?
Um…Bertram…do you mean that one can win a hedgehog?
Laurie, Startled
hahaha! You guys are funny. I must confess, I haven’t visited often but I have the blog bookmarked now and will stop by each day for a laugh, smile and whatever else it brings. After work of course…..I only have two days a week to sip coffee and lounge around. Tomorrow it’s back to the daily grind.
Treasure Hunting leads to interesting reading!
This week sounds as if it will be tons of fun.
Hello! Hello, Laurie, in particular!
I’m a hedgehog. My name is Pickles. Hi!
I think what Mr. Bertram meant was that I can enter the contest too. Not that hedgehogs will be given away. In the contest. If you see what I mean.
Hello!
Pickles
That’s too bad. I would love to have a hedgehog for a pet. It would be quite the talk of the ton, I think. Everyone else just has monkeys and Pekinese. 🙂
I beat you to it, Amanda! At least fictionally. The children in Lady Dearing’s Masquerade have a hedgehog as a pet (my own kids’ idea).
Only later did I read Laura Kinsale’s Midsummer Moon and discover that I was not the first to write a pet hedgehog. Oh, and now I’m remembering Julia Ross had hedgehogs in My Dark Prince (though not as pets). It would be incredibly presumptuous to say great minds think alike. So I won’t say it.
Sorry ladies and gentlemen, I’m feeling a bit ditzy after spending an afternoon trying to teach my kids to ski. Claret is not strong enough. I think I need some Scotch whisky. I hope that is not too unladylike!
Elena
I’m afraid I’ve arrived rather later than I’d planned. Just wanted to drop in and tell you all hello and give some support for your Blog Party! It’s a delightful idea! Can’t wait to try for the prizes!
And Bertram…er…Mr. St. James, your waistcoat is divine!
Ah! We have someone with exquisite taste here with us. (Besides me, that is.) Mandacoll, I am delighted you have joined the party! And you may call me Bertie, if you wish. Anyone with such a true appreciation for beauty is certain to become a fast friend of mine.
Bertie the Beau
I’m just trying to get clear here–can gentlemen enter so long as they are not bads and counders–I mean, cads and bounders? Or only gentleman hedgehogs? Or hedgehogs who drink tea without pantheon of primate?
Sorry, I’m a bit confused. You have this effect on me at times, Bertie–no doubt I am dazzled by your exquisite, er, your exquisite, er, exquisiteness.
OK. To sum up: anyone can enter who is a non-bounder, provided that they feed tea to hedgehogs. Is that right?
Todd-who-needs-to-lie-down-a-bit
Bertie, why don’t you time travel to my century and stop by for a visit. I’ll introduce to the joys of coffee today, and after maybe we can find something more interesting to do…
I have thoroughly enjoyed myself searching for the answers to the Treasure Hunt. I so wish I’d know about this blog back when it first started…I love Jeremy Northam, and The Thin Man, and all the Austen movies and Jo Beverly’s DIERDRE AND DON JUAN and..oh…any number of things you all have chatted about…Keep on Risk Taking, Ladies (and Bertie)!
Amanda (not McCabe)
Delighted you found us, Amanda!
Cara
Madame Pam P:
Your century sounds delightful. As does your coffee. And I am always interesting in, er, things that are interesting.
Bertie