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.

Wesley Snipes... mmmmmmm... did the temperature just go up in here? :o

... 'ello... xxx

I got a bit lost in the loveliness of Blighty and facebook for a while... looks like lots has been happening here!!!

Hi guys!

Hi Tea, how was the uk?

In a packing frenzy here. Moving on Sunday. Does anyone know the best way to pack toys?

Exam results day here - a mixed bag of results for ds for his AS levels - he's done four, each of two sections. For each one he's passed one paper really well and failed the other! Still averages out ok, but my nerves are in need of a large cuppa. Love him anyway...just hope he's coping alright with the thought of resits in Jan! Anyone else for a cuppa?

Toys? Big boxes, squeeze them in. If there's more science than that, I've no idea

UniS, hoping boy's SALT thingy goes well...

I was thinking about your DS Amber this morning. Being old and far away from the UK I no longer know how this all works. Is your DS in the lower or upper sixth?? Are these the last exams he takes or are there more to come?

Fingers crossed for him.
Oh and I see you are off on holiday. Have a nice time.

Toys- big boxes, stuff them in.Label so you can find the most special ones straight away in new house.

AS results congrats and commiserations, at least its only re-sits on half of them.

S&L apt was fine, boy on good form, chatty, bright, charming and the SALT didn't understand a good percentage of his chatter and had to look to us for translations a number of times, some of which we could supply, some we could not. So we will be sent a pack of "games" to work through with him and he has another apt with SALT in 8 weeks.

Hello all! In the land of BLighty myself now

Not too bad - goodish journey, a few moments madness but we survived.

Made it through to 4:30am before waking; miniThumb lasted another hour.

UniS - hope it works out with SALT. Stupid question, might have asked it before, ignore if really stupid - has your DS been checked for a tonguetie?
(btw, JBmama is a chiropracter)

Went out to supermarket with sis and her 3 DDs yesterday eve - argh! Talk about dawdling, and miniT was so tired he kept falling asleep in the trolley seat! Bless.

amber - interesting ishoos with the Fine Lad? Does he know what was going on there or is it just that each paper required different skill sets?

Hi Thumb, pretty sure DS has no tongue tie, he breast feed happily for 2 yrs , can roll his tongue and stick it out. Getting him referred for SALT was our choice as he's getting frustrated when people don't understand him.

ANd - Woo hOO blighty. I'm in the south est next week but don't think a meet up will be practical, too many relatives to see scattered about the region.

My knitting deadline fast approches. I've sorted out teh poncho, now need to sew up the hat and finish knitting then sew up teh slippers. alll by 2pm saturday. Arrrgggggh.

Byyyyeeeee

Am back from the hellish week known as this year's camp. It was a NIGHTMARE.

Will catch my breath, catch up and update soon.

Hello all!

Scoutie!!! How are you?? Feeling ok?
Really curious why camp was hell, pls update soon so I can waste some time MNing at work. This is my second last Saturday, after that, no more working Saturdays for me!! Whoo and hoo!

MadamGuider was a right royal madam and made our lives miserable. Sooooo many things, not sure I have the strength to name them all.

Had headache most of the week -- don't know if it was the pills, the insufficient drinking, the poor sleeping or MadamG. Weekly meds didn't make me sick this week, just gave me a fuzzy head.

sympathy scout for your big blue funnel troubles.

to cheer you up the NMBs are bringing you the choc box of requirement and some fluffy towels and a bottle of nice smelling massage oil and Mellors will be along shortly.

Boy now trying to start all sorts of words with a F sound, hes decided that thats teh key for those words grown ups don;t understand. ho hum.

The sad thing is it all kicked off on my birthday and went rapidly downhill. I was happy to ignore it all for the girls and MrsGuider (my UL) but HubbyScout exploded (and trust me when I say it takes a lot to make him snap so he was wound very VERY tightly) and the week got progressively worse. MrsGuider even admitted part way through the week (after the explosions) that it was very clear MadamGuider had a problem with me and that no matter what I did or didn't do it was never going to be right. I, too, had realized that even before things kicked off and had just continued to smile, have a moan to HubbyScout and do what I could for the girls and MrsGuider.

BabyScout was BRILLIANT at camp. Such a good little camper he was. It's in his blood, so I should I hope he was!

WAVES to all of the new people. I'm Scout. I've been away at Guide camp this past week but am normally around. I have one son, BabyScout, who is nearly ten months old (eek!). I am an American living in England (HubbyScout is English) and have been here for five years (today, actually -- ACK!). Being American means I have different vocab and ask silly questions.

Hello to everyone else! Will catch up probably later. For now, back to laundry, etc.

Moving house today. No internet in my parents house, where we'll be staying until we go to Goa in 7 weeks. Will try to pop in as often as I can as I know I'll miss you guys but not sure how often that will be. Better go, things are manic here. xxxx

Wow! I've missed so much while I've been on my hols.

A warm welcome to the newest arrivals - would you like to share some of my duty-free Bolly? And Bolly, hugs and bracing pats on the shoulder to everyone else.

bolly acepted.
At my folks for a week , so soradic iternet access. Off to London for a day trip on Wed, going to try and squeze in . Changing the Guard, An hour at British meseum, Coram fields and St Pancres station. Not nessesarily in that order. Will think of you guys at Corams.
i'm hoping hat will be a less busy set of places than Science meuseum and Diana Playground.

Other days we will be more local, and probadly do some geocacheing.
my i offer you chocolate covered ginger bisciuts.

Phew, found you again! Thanks to UniS for bringing this to the top of the active list!

No interesting gossip from me, but thanks for the duty free, Small!

You're welcome!

These biscuits are delicious UniS, many thanks (and for the blanket patch too).

Cin, cin!

HubbyScout saw a flyer in the local newsagent yesterday for a meeting trying to get a local WI up and active. Does it make me sad and old that I'm thinking it could be interesting?

It might well be interesting Scout, some of them are apparently. Ours I've never bothered to venture near because all the activities are as boring as shit.

Guess I'm thinking if I don't like the looks/sounds of it and/or the people I don't need to go back. But given where I live (chavtastic central) I'm hoping maybe it will attact a few more normal/older/sane people like me.

Our local meetings have "interesting" titles like "a souvenir from the seaside" or "best embroidered hankie". If they went paintballing or karting I might have been interested!

I like the thoughts of the cooking/baking side -- I need some tips for things I want to make but don't know of anyone who can help/show me what I'm doing wrong. Can't say I'd go to anything called "best embroidered hankie" either.