Once upon a time, in a land far far away...like really far (on the other side of the world for most of you), in the Land of Auck, lived two princesses, N and B. Since they could no longer tolerate living with the "commoners" at the student apartments, they decided to move into a palace of their own.
The Empire Palace apartments was a shoebox palace of sorts, but this did not deter them from celebrating the most outrageous parties, and the Palace quickly became a sought out venue. It became so popular in fact, that when out-of-towners tried to make their way to the infamous parties, they would ask people in the street for directions to "The Palace"...A true testament to the event-managing talents of Princess N and catering of Chef de Patisserie Princess B.
Naturally I yearned for a slice of this fabulousness, and so I was deemed the Duchess. The Duchess of Matakana. Of course, my kingdom also made for a great escape for the princesses, and many adventures were had.
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| Duchess, Princess N & Princess B |
For one reason or another, these outings became The Classy Bird outings. I'm really not sure where the "Birds" suddenly came from (perhaps inspired by The Inbetweeners?! I hope not...), but in any case, we needed the "Classy" because...well, we needed to set ourselves some standards...These outings became such a regular event, and included classy weekend escapes to Matakana, The Farmer's Market, High Tea at the Brookview Teahouse, or Britomart Country Club, many a fabulous breakfasts, brunches and lunches and so The Classy Bird Society was born!
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| Easter party at The Palace |
Of course there were also less "Classy", in the words of Princess N rather "Classaaaay" events...Which you will read about in true Fräulein-fashion detail whenever I get the urge to reminisce. But to give you a taster, some of the greater adventures have been:
- A somewhat salacious night, where the Duchess briefly got mistaken as the burlesque dancer (I had done burlesque classes, but never with the intention of performing in public...), as well as a casual "mid-town" swim in a glass-bottomed city fountain (in the presence of a constable)
- Getting schlepped into a Hummersine by a groom (that later also turned out to be a cop), in a latex dominatrix suit for his stag-do...this was the night that we thought we had ended up in 'The Hangover', all that was missing was the tiger...
- Partying in the studio of our favourite radio station
- And a general list of places we have "chair & table danced", for which we have often got ourselves into a spot of trouble...
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| Don't worry, she isn't actually falling! She was reenacting a fall from grace from our Brazilian Classy Bird... |
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| Last outing in the Land of Auck for a while... |
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| The Charlie's Birds Society? |
Clearly, we really aren't very classy at all (maybe it should be The Crazy Bird Society?)...Rather slightly deluded...We may not take ourselves very seriously, but we do take our mission -to live up to the words of Coco- seriously! Mostly we fail, but that's okay, we do have fun pretending!
It's Thursday, which is pretty much the weekend...so ladies and gents, stay classy & fabulous please! How you interpret that, is of course entirely at your discretion...
Yours truly,
The Duchess x
PS: I have just had news from Princess B that she has landed a job as cake decorator at one of my favourite cafes, Little & Friday! Congratulations B, I know you would've worked your magic to get the job, and will continue to produce some amazingness!
PPS: This is how The Classy Birds will roll when we've "aged gracefully"...
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