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.

Why a sample??? (EHCO????) mind you, at that age mistlechick would have been happy to comply... he had a great tendency to wait until his nappy was off... I was SO glad we used washables as there was nearly always a prefold to hand to cover the consequences....

Dunno why a sample. Especially for an ECHO. I usually open his nappy, let the air in, and then cover up and wait at least 60-90 seconds before doing anything. He still manages to catch me now and again.

(Sorry, were you asking why an ECHO?)

Hi all, re the FB Tea Room and references to same on here... please remember that the rest of MN (and everyone on the Internet) can see everything that we write here, so we need to be a bit careful with references to each other on here. Some of us have very distinctive initials in real life, and although we have all trusted each other with our real life identities, we may not want to do that with the rest of the world.

I've asked MN to remove a bunch of posts from yesterday because they made some of us a bit too recognizable.

Would anyone like some of the extremely gooey choc brownies I and the kids made this afternoon? Packed FULL of chocolate and marshmallows...

Of course it's bolly o'clock Small . Although I am supposed to be working this evening...but a little alcohol won't hinder that will it .

LittleO is asleep, jazz on the radio, all is good here.

What do you all think of the name Ailith? I think it's lovely, it's an old English name. No reason for asking, not expecting or anything, I just keep a name list and add names to it occasionally, just incase I ever need to name someone in the future .

Ailith is lovely. Certainly worth keeping for guinea pigs or whatever.

Am having severe wobbles about having signed up to go to my SIL to bes hen weekend. I barely know her, and obv no one else. It seemed like a good chance to get to know her, but am now paralysed with fear that I'll just spend the weekend picking at my nails while she/her sisters/mum/friends natter, and look foolish

Have not heard that name before -- how do you pronounce it?

CMOT When's the hen weekend? Is it far away from where you are I mean, could you come and go as needed/wanted?

I want cookies.

Not far - 40 minute drive. I thought it would be worse if I came and went as no chance to get to know people .

I'm currently eating gluten free Oreo alikes irl if you'd like some ?

How do they taste? I'm a fan of the Double Stuff Oreos myself.

Was only asking if you could leave if it got to be too much.

Am really starting to question going to camp as well, so feel your pain!

They taste great to me, but then I've been gluten free for 12 years now, and find it hard to compare to the real deal.

I might alter to just turning up on the Saturday morning and spending the day

ohhhh double stuff oreos. bliss.
I rather like whatever it is you call mashed up oreos mixed with cream cheese and made into ball shapes then coated in chocolate. Nicer than they sound, best after a spell in teh fridge, but I tend to wolf them all too quickly for that.

I'll get mellors on to making ice cream balls encased in chocolate for us.frozen melon balls for those who don't like ice cream or choc.

ooh, CMOT - are they Crimbles? Did I ever tell you I met "Mr Crimble" at a country show once? It was very interesting...
I love his double choc brownies...

Think Ailith is a lovely name, has a lovely ethereal quality...

I haven't heard of Ailith before - it's like a cross between Lilith and Ailish - I quite like it! I like Alethea as well but it has to be pronounced properly - friends of mine called their DD that but were pronouncing it Al-ITH-ia - so it sounded like Alicia with a lisp. They ended up changing it to Alicia because of that. Really it should be pronounced Al-uh-THE-a, which is lovely. I assume Ailith is Ay-lith?

ailith sounds like a character name in a fantasy novel. My spell checker thinks it should read ailing.

Boy does not like banana milk with rasberry squash. he wanted it, tried it, made a face. It tasted yucky he said. wasn;t too bad really.

Morning. Any coffee around?

I think it's Ay-lith. I just looked up old English names. As you know LittleO has an old Irish name and we always said that if we ever did have another we'd go for an English name. We randomly looked some up yesterday and thought Ailith was lovely. Ethereal yes, but possibly a bit too girly?

We have spent the morning drinking coffee and talking about how much we want LittleO to have a second language. I looked up which is the easiest language for an native English speaker to learn and supposedly it's Spanish. Do you think it's possible through a weekly tutor and dvds to teach a young child a second language?

Hope everyone is well. Very quiet around here. Has Serpent gone off on her hols?

CMOT - You should go for the drunken part. That will help you get to know them and bond with your future sister in law.

UniS - When I googled the name it did seem to come up as some kind of fantasy/sci fi type name fairly frequently!

< AandO lowers a rather large chocolate cake into the priest hole along with a bottle of something for Amber>

xxxx

My Dad is a languages professor and he says Spanish is the easiest to learn as well. I think it's a great idea for LittleO to have a second language - I want the same for miniThumb and we have Basic French and Basic Spanish for little children for that reason. Although I can barely count to 10 in Spanish so I might start with French!

My linguistic speciality is learning how to say I don't speak the lingo. I have "non hablo espanol" down to a fine art.

Although my classiest moment was in Heathrow T3 with DH (before he was DH) - we walked past a German family and I must have turned my head or something because the man said ti me "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" And I said "Nein" [doh!] and kept walking .
Tis true enough though - my German is very poor.

Amber - a horrible email? From whom? Not the same bunch Again, surely?? Although that would be better than someone else in many ways...

Different bunch, similar line of work.

You'd think that if an autistic person is targetted by a con-person who liberates some of their money through devious means, that the leader who put them in contact with this individual would do better than "I have other things to worry about". And they're a very famous and well respected leader, too. Don't really need to feel any worse about myself right now. Really don't need to.

eat more virtual cake amber.

boy and dh are off aT TEH REC,bike ride isn;t happening as DH got injured at cricket. High ropes thing isn;t happening as one colleague got family problems ... so I'm off in a bit for fish n chips with other work people.

Have finally- just , done invoice.

catch u later

UniS - cricket injury AGAIN????

Amber - non threatening, virtual (((hugs))) - I've made you a pot of tea and some cinamon danishes (- although you might like to avoid the one on the top of the pile as I see it has teeny tiny footmarks following the swirl into the centre and out again....)

I've reported some posts - trying to get MN to follow up MMMM's request...