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.

Not at all. To misquote HHGTTG:

The second one's job is to follow the first one down and check that it was all right. The third one is to find out why the second one hasn't reported on the condition of the first. The fourth one is to head the previous one off at the pass, together they will get the second to pull itself together, then go in search of the first to give it a good talking to. You are then uncertain as to whether the fourth drink had understood all that so send a fifth to explain the plan more fully and a sixth for moral support.

Simples!

On the school run Milk's mouth started to twitch and then she just couldn't help herself and came out with it in rather a fluster...

"Mummy, I don't understand... why are you taking me to school dressed up as Bobby from the railway children?"

...and there's me thinking my outfit today was a rather cutting edge ensemble (well for me anyway)!

Tea!

Ok, this should be the right link www.vrindhavan-kindergarten.de

I guess I just figure that somebody I know would have to have been lurking in the tea room at the moment my rl name was written on here. Then they would know who I am and be able to read everything I write and go Ha, I never knew she thought that, or something along those lines. And that to me seems very unlikely. Of course I could be missing something, as I know nothing of internet safety. Perhaps now if someone googles my rl name AandO will also come up?

Btw JM, I never got a message from you on the other forum! Just one from Serpent. Or at least I assume it is her.

Oxeye - the other forum, if you haven't already emailed Catita, is > FB. (still cryptic but slightly less so):)

MaryBS - Is that misquoting? It's a long time since I read HHGTTG but I thought it was about drinks then as well - if not, good thought! I'll have another...

Tea - PMSL at your Parisian child! You'll have to start clearing your school run outfits with her before you leave the house at this rate.

Scout - I completely understand - but you have to be more forceful with your DH and say "No, I will go to the store later and you will stay and look after Babyscout. Thank you for your kind offer but it's my turn to get out of the house for just half an hour, if that's all right with you?"
(Can you tell I've had to do this too? ) I'm sure he thought he was being lovely and thoughtful to do it for you - you have to explain things to the menfolk in short words sometimes.

We appear, finally, to be Over the Jet Lag. We managed a full 10 hour sleep last night and were awake at 7am; the sun was actually up by then - hurrah!

Amber - I am sure that the visual impact of the FineLad (height, muscles, fair hair, blue eyes) will mean that at least half the audience won't even notice whether he's got a good singing voice.

Scout - I understand completely and, as always, Thumb tells it like it is. How busy are your weekends? Can you leave HubbyScout in charge on a Saturday morning while you go for a coffee in a nice cafe, or to have your hair cut or nails done or whatever is your favourite treat?

Tea - What is this outfit that your little fashionista was dissing? But at least she knows the Railway Children!

Twiglet Surprise, anybody?

I'm with Thumb on this one too, Scout. I find that getting up on a Saturday (or whatever day ou know he won't be working), and announcing (over breakfast; or even over his still half sleeping frame) that you are popping out for X/Y/Z reason and will be back in a couple of hours. Once he says "yes dear (or whatever), just slip in "I'm leaving you Baby Scout on the floor here; his breakfast is on the counter with his cup of milk. See you... (and then leg it)

This works for me. Mr. H never has complained yet.... As he is always telling me: you don't need to be justifying what you are doing all the time. Don't excuse, don't explain, just do it (and apologies for the bad English translation, it sounds less twee in Spanish).

ASmallBunch, that is indeed ds's cunning plan. How did you know?

A moment ago there was a knock at the door, and his driving instructor peered at me in my dressing gown and asked whether ds was ready. DS was, of course, fast asleep and had forgotten he'd booked one. Never seen him move that fast before....very impressive...

Is it too early for twiglet surprise? Or too late?

Twiglet Surprise is the Snack of Requirement and can be eaten at any time of day, I am sure!

I have the house to myself and am just going out for some Retail Therapy.

Misquoting, thumbwitch, as I removed the references to having 2 heads :o

Off to a wedding today, colleague of DH getting married...

Hope the wedding goes splendidly!

Off to buy curtains. This could be a challenge for an Amber, notorious for not being able to choose from different things. I shall reward myself with a dive into the bookshop afterwards.

small - Look at poorly modelled photo 89 on my f b page and imagine that dress with one of those quite trendy (in my head) cardis that is long at the front and short at the back and beige ballet pumps.

What makes it worse is... once she had said it... I did sort of get what she meant.

Ontop of that when I picked her up from school she 'wouldn't let it lie' and asked me if I would be interested in waving my dress at a train on the way home!

MaryBS - WOW WOW WOW!!! A wedding!!!

The last one I went to I somehow ended up walking like an Egyptian - bleeeerdy wedding discos!!!???!!!

Have fun and report back in detail!!! 'cause everyone luuuurves a wedding!!!

Good morning all.
Feeling extremely out of sorts this morning and not sure what to. Advice would be welcome.

Does anyone remember my rambling post about friends from a few weeks ago? Where I was bemoaning the lack of a close friend since DS was born? I just saw this morning that the ex-friend I was talking about is FB-friends with my DH.
I don't know if this is a new thing. They may have been FB friends for a long time, since before our friendship imploded so spectacularly. I was never on FB until last summer so have no idea. And I can't get an answer from DH until tomorrow night because he's in Seattle with his friends for a football weekend.

I also don't particularly feel like making an arse of myself by texting him about this, so need sit on it until he gets home.
But I Am Not Happy. I've got my privacy settings as secure as possible so Only Friends can see anything I post, but still. I've just blocked her so she can see nothing of mine, but I'm so bothered that she's FB friends with DH. I don't know why. Maybe it's that I felt so let down by her and I don't want her to know anything about me/us? I don't know. Would it be completely unreasonable of me to ask DH to unfriend her? He probably wouldn't, even if I asked, but should I even ask?
I know this is really trivial and eye-roll-inducing and hardly earth-shattering stuff, but I'm distressed about it... any advice?

Hiya JB. Look, I don't think you are being silly about this at all. If you fell out in such a bad way with this friend, it is quite reasonable that you shouldn't want her nosying about your page nor DHs. I would probably imagine that Mr. JB made FB friends with her during your RL friendship and now has forgotten all about it.

When he gets back I'd just mention it to him in passing and say you feel a little awkward/uncomforttble with her being able to "pry" about your life still through his page. I expect that will be enough to galvanise him into action.

And yes, I know you want it resolved now (I am just the same, I hate waiting things); but I don't think it will make a big difference if this is done today, tomorrow or Monday. Can you think of doing anything to take your mind of it for now until Mr. JB gets back?

JB, can't do better than the advice from Catita.

Have a large glass of something. Anyone else for a tiny smidgeon of Bolly?

JB, I'm the same way and feel your pain. No advice but have a big hug and some cakes.

Had an okay day -- need a drink.

I heard a mention of Bolly and the tractor beam pulled me in!

JBM - I get your drift. In that kind of situation, I'd encourage SmallBloke to defriend her (although as SmallBloke only has 3 FB friends and I'm one of them he hasn't got many to spare!)

Here's a fresh platter of Twiglet Surprise. Do tuck in!

Hmmm... that is a tricky on JB. I bet they became fb friends when you and her were mates and now neither of them have thought to do anything about it. Given how your relationship has changed I think it would be the done thing for MrJB to politely defriend her. Beerfortwo would not understand this at all (he has a very blokey brain). So good luck!

FB is a social minefield! An old friend of mine from school recently defriended me. I think it is because one of my best friends is also a very good friend of her ex and she is covering all bases to make sure she 'moves on'. Even so - ouch it hurt!

..and ps did anyone notice that we made it onto the "Things I hate about MN thread!!!!"

On the barbie thread I discovered these -

www.manhattantoy.com/products/206672?n=0

... and can't decide which one I want to play with the most!!!! I think my inner child is out to play tonight!

I wonder how MaryBS is getting on at her wedding...

Let's have our own wedding disco while we wait!!!

Three cheers for the disco!

This is one of my .

Tea - I didn't want to look at the thread, but do now! Where was it? Can you link?

OMG, I thought that third link of Tea's was done by someone else!! I learn something new every day.