A Knight In Geraniums

November 23, 2011

Gracious Readers;

Once again, I have been relocated, however, not to another building, as has happened so many times in the recent past, but to another vantage point in the same building where I have resided this past merry month.

I am residing still at beautiful 71 Sydney Street, however, two of the ladies, Lady Alice and Lady Kim picked me up and moved me to a beautiful sunny room which they call “The Solarium”. This is a half-round room, with pots of geraniums in glorious flower all around the edge. As they moved me, they talked of Christmas “decorating”. I shall look forward to seeing what that entails!

From my new location, I can see out onto a street called “Princess Street”. I am wondering for which of her highness Victoria’s several daughters it has been named. Looking the other way, I can see into a beautiful parlour where the sun shines onto the polished wooden floors, where Lady Kim and Lady Alice and another fair maid whose name is not known to me were busily working all the day. The activities were not the usual ones I have observed over my past many months as a guest of Chipman Hill Suites.

Am I a guest? Perhaps I am an indentured servant? My status has never been made clear to me.

At any rate, I digress………

The ladies had a large box and from it, they removed a green item, in pieces, the likes of which I had never seen. As they worked on it, fitting multiple pieces together, it began taking the form of a green tree from the forest, similar in appearance to a fir tree, although it is neither from a forest, nor a real tree. It seems to be a replica of some kind. It has no smell of forest to be sure.

This evening, now that everyone is asleep, I will examine it in further detail and report my findings to you shortly.

It is now the morrow, albeit very early. None of the guests are about, neither the Lady Kim nor Lady Alice. I take this quiet opportunity to post my blog, unobserved.

I am enjoying my stay here at 71 Sydney Street, and have been watching over the front entrance now for several weeks. My recent move has me watching over a rear (and rarely used) door, as well as the main parlour. It is interesting for me to be able to have such a fine vantage point over the street as well.

As I have learned, “cars” have replaced horse-drawn carriages, although every now and then two or three carriages indeed pass by, each loaded with riders who speak of “Cruise Ships”. I know what a ship is, but what is “cruise” and how does it relate to a ship?

Cars have a smell of their own, it reminds me of some of the areas around the factories when I was last in London as a guard of honour at the funeral of our Queen’s beloved Albert.  It seems just like yesterday.  Horses and carriages were very much in evidence there, and the smell of same when they pass by 71 Sydney Street causes me to remember………I have seen so much, and only now, with the advent of “the blog” am I able to tell you.

I look forward to giving you further tales of my past as well as an accurate reporting of my present in the very near future.

In the meanwhile, enjoy your stay here at Chipman Hill Suites, and know that I am thinking of you.

Sir Syd