Teapots 2: Turning Back the Clock

by Gabi Plumm

Rosehill Home for the Elderly is run by the almost evil Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones-Bristowe. The same crowd is in residence, but nothing is quite what it seems. With an eye on the income revenue, Joan decides to turn the clock back after a devastating fire, and redecorates the whole home in retro style, with furniture and music from the '60s, and one extra ingredient grown in the garden.

The new brownies served at supper and the porridge at breakfast liven up the inmates, sending them into mild ecstasy. There is always someone keen to make such a misdemeanor very public and this threatens to upset Joan’s plans. Does she really hope to make her residents happier by pretending they are still young, or does she have an ulterior motive? She plans to keep them fit with water aerobics and yoga exercise; plans which will reinvent them and get their pheromones pumping. The old friends who take numerous cups of tea daily, the Teapots, Dee, Dottie, Dulcie, and now Frank, are enthusiastic about the changes but is this due to the little extra added to their food?

Turning Back the Clock is set in the northeast of Australia and contains some wonderful scenes of the landscape. Set in a retirement home, it would appeal to all ages as the residents are not sitting placidly in God’s waiting room, but are full of energy and spirit proving that "life begins at 70".

Packed with humorous quips, the friends do not take Joan too seriously. The Teapots are busy with their knitting, listening to classical music, or revelling in a long lost and found love. Enter Jean-Michel, a dashing Frenchman with a delightful accent who performs a couple of minor miracles, then add a team determined to expose the truth behind Joan’s machinations, and the stage is set for a cozy mystery that is sure to make you smile.

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Published March 29, 2021

About the author

Hello, this is me — Gabi Plumm, born in the UK, now living in Australia's North Queensland. I am, perhaps, the archetypal baby-boomer hippy. Dressed in my finery I pass as a London/Sydney or New York socialite, but hippy Bohemian would be a better description. I've always thought of myself as a deep thinker, but in truth I'm kidding myself, putting on airs and graces that have no foundation. I'm a reactor. I pick up fag ends of people's conversations and woes that I turn into miniature epics. I see weird things happening on streets, in cars, in cinemas, and in dreams and I turn them into silly stories. I love silliness in all its forms and my sense of humour, sorry humor, belongs firmly in the boarding school where I tried, in vain, to grow up. I found out at the age of 34 that I'd been adopted, and my whole life changed; the ramifications of this event creep into every book I write.

My books include short stories, many of which are featured in excerpt on this blog, as well as children's books that were originally written as TV episodes and now fill an eight episode novel. An anthology of tall tales is presently being edited and my latest project is a Trilogy entitled Teapots that features, love, revenge and shenanigans in an Australian Retirement Home.

I hope you will accompany me on my journey through this blog. I will try to keep it interesting, please tell me if I am failing!