Welcome to the tea room. Open to those with one child and those with more and maybe some with none ( hi dave the trucker).
This time we are heading to the mists and mellow fruitfulness of Autumn in a moving castle with a mind of its own. The roaring fire is maintained by magic and Mellors the gardener handles wine and spirits along with massage duties.
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The moving castle tea room touches down for the 29th time
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UniS · 07/09/2011 21:09
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beanandspud ·
07/09/2011 22:01
Hello all!
Can I interest anyone in a castle-warming 
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Welcome Misspricklepants!
UniS ·
07/09/2011 22:03
ohh, yes please to shal we get mulling. Hi picklepants, nice to see you here, jammy dodger?
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Tee2072 ·
08/09/2011 06:19
My goodness I get a day behind and we've moved! 'Tis lovely!
::positions fainting couch in front of the fire and, well, faints::
Welcome MissPP!
LCT all better, by the way and went back to nursery yesterday. My throat still hurts but GP says it's not red. 
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Thumbwitch ·
08/09/2011 06:26
JM - it's like this only MUCH bigger and probably has elephant legs rather than chicken ones. 
mistlethrush ·
08/09/2011 09:18
Nice to see you MissPP!
Look what I found in a torn open box marked 'spare sofa cushions' and pushed to the back of the broomcupboard!
I was assuming the castle was a bit like the musical shop that appeared in Ankh Morpork ... which has always been there when it arrives, but never been there when its left...
Yesterday Mc brought home two class library books from school - one was a story book for boys with a number of stories in chapters with illustrations - decent amount of text on each page and in each chapter but not excessive. Yesterday he read chapter one of Gullivers travels. This morning he read five chapters of that and the one about sea creatures over breakfast. He read them to himself but was able to tell me what happened (and I do get him to read aloud too). It might not be ideal reading over breakfast... (although if he's reading he can manage to get the odd spoonfull in and is not so busy talking that he doesn't eat, which is an advantage in itself) but I'm hoping that this is the start of him really appreciating how fun it is reading books. Although I'm sure that when he gets his 'reading books' home it will be a different kettle of fish.
School going OK so far - he's come back with a sticker each day, yesterday for showing the new boy where the snack boxes should be (and I think he talked to him at lunch too)
Having a big problem trying to convince him that, even if he sings high, he doesn't sound anything like a girl. I did point out that all the cathedrals had choirs made up of boys and that they wouldn't choose boys if girls were better . I do want the shop to hurry up with his violin though!
mistlethrush ·
08/09/2011 10:29
Who needs and a piece of ginger cake (its gone rather gooey)
Re parcels (still not sent UniS anything to read but its on its way along with the helecopter Tshirt ) the rules were 'something to read' I thought - not necessarily a book though. I'm certainly not sending a book, but I hope what I do send will go down well.
MissPP, please excuse the conversations that clearly refer back to things long ago... I managed to jump on early in the tearoom history (1st one I think) so only had several pages to wade through to get the general jist - but its been moving around for a number of years now and quite a few of us are long-term inmates residents. However, more recent additions will confirm that you do get used to it, catch up on what's happening where and what things refer to etc...
My Ds is 6.5 and just started Yr2. No doubt the tearoom will be propping me up over the coming weeks about it!
girliefriend ·
08/09/2011 10:33
Hello all can I join you? I do have the mandatory one child! Am desperate for a cuppa.......
mistlethrush ·
08/09/2011 10:36
< hands to girliefriend>
Hate to disappoint, but not everyone here has the mandatory 1 child... However, I think a majority of us do - and everyone is sympathetic to those that do have just one for whatever reason (and support those that may be trying for more than one, or have more than one, or whose 1 child has effectively flow the nest)
Pull up a chair by the fire - you might need to throw off a few NMBs before you sit down, and mind out for Donki's hay pile.
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Scout19075 ·
08/09/2011 11:20
Hello girliefriend! I'm Scout. ToddlerScout (TS for short) will be two (
) next month. I'm part of the foreign contingent -- an American living in the UK married to a Brit.
Sympathies to Tee. It happens a lot here, too. We have CBeebies days, too. And when I can't handle any more of that I turn on cheesie American tv shows while TS plays/reads.
TS officially has a cold. 
Poor boy. HAVE to drag him out, though, as I'm having my next injection with the nurse at noon. Given that we're still in limbo regarding the visa/MrScout's departure/our plans I don't want to keep putting the injections off, just in case we have another last minute scramble like last month.
Yes, it was something to read. I sent JM lots of the booklets/magazines with recipes that you get from different grocery stores. Speaking of packages, JM, we'll be sending chocies and your homemade gift when we're in the States. Given how long it seems to take your parcels to get from there to here I think sending it from either FL or home will be quicker/easier. If MrScout gets there before me I'll have him mail your goodies.
amberlight ·
08/09/2011 11:29
Oooo, a moving castle! Excellent! Hi to new people . I see the priest hole is in the usual place, and the horses are enjoying the stable block in the stone courtyard outside (which seems to have a Canadian flag flying outside it ).
For those new to the tea room, I am Amber, a middle aged mum of an 18 yr old lad so a bit of an Elderly really. I'm a bit potty but people put up with me, mostly. Or ignore me. Either works well. Do have a and form a queue for Mellors (who looks exactly like the person of your dreams) and his/her famous massages. Just the thing for the stressed mum.
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