Sire, the news about your good health is wonderful and will lead to much thankfulness in the Oubliette!

Your idea about Anzac Day on 25th April is a very good one and has been taken on board. It may literally be "on board", as some parts of your southern realm here are being inundated with floods of Biblical proportions - I don't know if the news has reached you yet?

Fortunately the Imperial Torturer and Spouse (who, incidentally, yesterday celebrated 45 years of wedded bliss together) had enough common sense to purchase a house on a hill well away from a river, so if the forecast 'weather event' should, as promised, reach us next week - all here will be safe. Such 'weather event' will also, it is hoped, help wipe out some of the mice in the current plague. The household of the Imperial Torturer was recently shaken to the core by the invasion of two mice, one of which was duly disposed of by the resident geriatric cat (at the not-so-tender age of 18, and having been an inside cat all her life, we didn't know she had it in her to kill a mouse) while the other was caught in a trap well-placed by the Spouse of the Imperial Torturer......but not before it invaded the sewing room of the Imperial Torturer, which I am sure will be viewed with suitable horror by Empress Patricia.

Farming communities hereabouts are being overrun by said mice, so should the miscreants' rations run short it is good to know that a ready source of protein is there for the taking.

JennieG
Imperial Torturer, Dungeon Choir Wrangler and Overseer of Empiratical Banjo Ensemble
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(For which I thank Our Most Gracious Emperor Rapparee)