Poor Hugh ........... Living The Showbiz Life Is NOT All It's Cracked Up To Be .........

We had sooooooooo looked forward to staying with Hugh at his Country Pile, Chateau De Chic-Kin Coup and spending some real quality time together, but when we got up this morning we could see that something was very wrong indeed as Hugh greeted us wearing mahooooosive sunglasses, sniffing deeply and looking very, very upset. 

He sat us down and tried as best he could, between huge sniffs and sobs, to tell us that despite having our visit clearly marked "Categorically Unavailable" in red ink and underlined in his diary, his PA had been forced to urgently and avoidably call him away, at the very last minute for crisis talks re:one of the shows he was involved in producing, directing and choreographing ........ and as such, between huge said sniffs, Hugh had to tell us  "......zat sadly, zee show 'ave to go on no?   I 'ave to leave you 'ere et returnez moi to Londres!"

Well, you can imagine the state we were in! To say that we were utterly and totally robustly devastated and gutted doesn't even begin to touch the emotion of it all, lets just say, a torrent of manly tears were shed (in truly showbiz type style). "I 'ave to go zis minute, zay are sending zee balloon for me as zee recompense .....  but I 'ave no appetite for its charms, ...... pahhhhhhhh!" Hugh flounced, in a way only Hugh could flounce while wearing a pink feather boa ......  "Zee showbiz life, it can be zee cruewwwwwelllll mistress no????" 

We had just five minutes to hurriedly light Hugh's birthday cake candles and sing a quick "Happy Birthday" and then .....................Hugh was gone ........ in a flurry of feathers and tears .....

....... and now wearing two pairs of sunglasses, one on top of the other .....

........ and although, on any another day we would all embraced how unbelievably romantic being picked up by hot air balloon was, at that moment it too held very little aforementioned charm for us as Hugh slowly disappeared over the glorious Worcester countryside...... heading towards London.

However, we were still staying ....... before he left Hugh had enough time to tell us "zat" all of Chateau De Chic-Kin Coup was at our disposal for as long as we "dezzzzired!, We were to treat it like "zee home from zee home" and avail ourselves to all "zee" food and drink he had especially bought in, but could now no longer sadly share with us .........

........ and, well ........ we reasoned it would look most rude not to!!!!