Tea Room 17 - The Tropical Beach Hut

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Welcome to the 17th version of the Tea Room. We find ourselves on a tropical beach, with the tea room now in a beach hut on stilts, the waves lapping on the golden sands beneath. Palm trees surround us. Our virtual gardener/beach surfing dude/handyman, Mellors, is here to tend to your every need. He looks like the person of your dreams (male, female or otherwise ). There are of course holidaying Bishops and other leaders of faith, the Camels, the Bison, various guinea pigs, the tea room horses, a life-size cut out of George Clooney, the NMBs (please don't ask me to explain how Mohawk Babies joined us, and a wide variety of other virtual followers. We chat, we relax, we share how life is. All in need of friendship are most welcome. The kettle is on...and the distressed chintz sofa has of course made the journey over. Enjoy.

I should add DH is still in bed (lucky duck!) or I'd ask him but sometimes he gets exasperated with me and vocab questions.

I would be a news presenter if people paid me enough and didn't mind me hiding under the newsdesk whilst presenting things? Does that count?

News presenter then.
Not sure if newscaster is a word in common use in the UK even if it is the correct UK term - but they'll know what you're talking about if you say news presenter or news reader, which I think is the normal term.

Have changed it to news reader. Thanks!

UniS -- Glad the patches made it. I double checked at the post office that I had enough postage on it and the lady looked at me like I was nuts.

HubbyScout has a photography commission this afternoon, so think he'll be getting his camera bits together when he stops reading the multiple geometry textbook to BabyScout. I can hear him reading and BabyScout bouncing or rolling in his cot. He (HS) seems to think reading to him like that will put him (BS) to sleep. HA! He should know by now it doesn't work!! Counting does, and so does singing the alphabet song slowly and softly, but reading does not. Ah well, father/son bonding time over a textbook. As for me, so much to do that I don't know where to start. Think I'll go take a nap!

Mmmm ggnnmmm great toffee!!
I bring bolly and wine
hope you're bearing up AandO I quite like weekends just me and ds. Go with flow. Plan odd one just don't others. We play. Dress lAte. Take coffee swim. I often eat dinner with him. It's only hard if you have big post boy sleep work agenda. Otherwise relaxing I find.
This weekend we've had good morning. Went to state rooms at buck palace. Spur of moment. Great. Nothing planned tomorrow. Walk probably

Oh, Amber, may I have one too, please?

Oxeye, sounds like a good day!

AandO, how was today?

bolly, er no thanks, beer in mine please.

Back from a V pleasant afternoon garden party, ate much to much. admired friends veg garden. also fitted in a brief walk to visit a tor we hadn't been to yet.

Sounds like a lovely day UniS.

Mine was and relaxing. We met a friend at the playground, then went back to hers for coffee, went to the shops, then home, LittleO listened to the Alice in Wonderland audio book that came free with todays paper and played farm, I read the papers all afternoon while he played, we then watched a dvd (land before time 2), more playing, dinner, storytime then bed. He was asleep at 8pm.

I actually really enjoy time for just the two of us but lately dh has been around more often and I'd kind of got used to it and so was worried about him being away. But when he is not here we have a lovely quiet rhythm. LittleO played contentedly all day! I think I'll take him to the petting farm tomorrow if it's not raining.

Oxeye - Is your dh back now?

AandO that sounds a great day
yes, Oxbloke back home now which is wonderful
I had forgotten how nice it is to have a paid of extra hands

Oxeye - you sound a little like you might have wine on board - hope so!

MrThumb is away for 3 days again this week - for some reason (inexplicable) I thought today was Monday and he was going this morning. He looked at me rather strangely, especially as I had made the same mistake last night and he'd already reminded me that Monday was still a whole day away...

Hey guys,

I have a thread in behaviour, if you have a chance I would appreciate your opinions. Link is here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/behaviour_development/1013514-3-yr-old-continually-resisting-leaving-the-house

Very upset right now. Sick of LittleO fighting everything all the time. Sick of being stuck in the house - between working from home and LittleO never wanting to go out I feel I never leave it . We also have no food, and I am too angry to even attempt to get LittleO out to the shop, let alone deal with his behaviour in the shop given his mood today.

Also I stupidly read the international news this morning in yesterdays paper - Something I generally don't do as it always upsets me greatly. I am now traumatised.

Sorry to post such a miserable message!

Have answered your thread, A&O, hope it helps!

Can you get someone to sit with him while you nip out to the shops yourself?

I avoid the news like the plague - home and international - too much upset and misery going on. MrTHumb knows now that if anything to do with babies or small children comes on, he has to switch it OFF immediately, no faffing, or I start going LALALALALALALA very loudly and generally trying not to see/hear it. It wouldn't take much for me to develop a full blown case of Weltschmerz, so I steer clear.

Thanks Thumb .

We know nobody here so that's not an option. We have some pasta and a tin of tomatos so I can do something with that at least. We have no wine or beer though...and after today I could really do with a drink! God, that sounds awful!

I am now being childish and not playing with LittleO as I am too annoyed. I have to learn not to take his behaviour personally and not to hold on to grudges all day.

Yep, when dh is home he reads the main paper first and then says things like 'don't open page 15 and 16'. He knows how much these things upset me. I called him up at work on the verge of tears after reading all that misery.

You can always try to have a conversation with him to see why he does things like that - try explaining that it makes mummy mad/sad/shouty and she doesn't want to be that way; see if he gets it. MiniThumb kind of gets it but not for long - he does say "sorry mummy" but that's a bit of an auto-response rather than an "I understand and won't do it again" response.

Have you any cooking sherry?? - god you know things are bad when you start drinking the cooking sherry...

Have the tea room duvet, A&O...

Cocktail with little umbrella, AandO?

Sorry today has gone pear shaped AandO. Can you go out in pjs and take clothes for later? Does he have a fear of going out the transition? What about walking or cycling so not straight off strapped in car? Or a second chance at the downstairs trying to open door stage?
Arse there's no wine. That's your only true mistake . I pass the tearoom Bolly

Ooh a cocktail and duvet would be great .

I phoned DH at work, he pointed out that there is a nice single malt whisky in the house. I hate whiskey, but I had three sips (I had to hold my nose ). I then ran a lovely bubble bath and spent over an hour in it with a cup of tea and my novel (Midnights Children). LittleO spent half an hour putting very small animals into the bath and then joined me. He is always happy in the bath and I find it a great way for us to relax together before bed. So all is good now.

Oxeye - Thanks . Not too much to walk to in our village really. Well, there is actually two beaches , but I tend to go to the beach in the next village along as it is nicer, cleaner, has a playground right next to it, and has lots of cafes nearby.

I've got to pack... I'm off down the country tomorrow. I'll tell you that dilemma in a mo!

How is everyone else?

Felt a bit miffed at dh last night - he spent all day out playing chamber music - I did boy, dog walk, gardening, and supervision of next door's twins when they came to play. When he got back, I said that I'd done [insert one of 'his' chores] but I hadn't done [insert a different one] that he'd simply left last week without doing - and I got a Humph rather than a thanks for doing the first chore.... OK, I did go and play one of the sessions of chamber music that evening - but mistlechick was in bed by then...

Have twinged back doing gardening - not quite sure what I did.... but its on the rhs - but even hurts to change gear - going to ring the osteopath and try to get it sorted asap.

I've never liked to ask what Chamber Music is, but spending a whole day playing it whilst your other half has to do all the hard work seems very to me.
Have a hot water bottle for the twinged back, newly filled from the tea room kettle.
Mellors seems to be offering a nice massage?

Chamber music is music written for a relatively small group of players - so it encompasses things like quartets, septets, piano trios, and even duets... Its the sort of thing that its not too overpowering to be in the same room with (normally). I was doing clarinet quintets lastnight - so a clarinet added to a string quartet. Dh was doing mainly larger pieces for more players and more wind instruments most of the time.

Mellors' massage is very good!