Tea Room the Eighteenth - the Cricket Pavilion

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Welcome one and all to our new abode - a lovely old-fashioned Cricket Pavilion, with decks outdoors and a rather lovely Members' Bar, complete with deep-seated leather comfy chairs and any drink you care to mention.

Our outdoor amenities include the well-tended cricket pitch, kept immaculate by Mellors, our multi-purpose man; a couple of tennis courts round the back for those who prefer the Wimbledon scene; and another multi-purpose pitch (can be used for hosting Fine Lad-style rugby matches, or Little Kickers' football, or the occasional All Comers' Lacrosse Tournament.

Bishops abound, mostly snoozing in the leather armchairs; there are sundry animals around - guineapigs and bison mostly - and of course the Naked Mohawk Babies, fetchingly attired in cricket whites (most unusual for them!)

The cricket pavilion tea room is open to all - those with only one child who need a safe haven predominate but having more than one child is fine - come in, have an egg'n'cress sandwich and a glass of Pimms!

*other fillings and beverages also available.

Done what with a black pouffe?

Errr... and what is a puffle?
(Since I can't read...)

A puffle is a pet in club penguin. One of the games on there is called "cart surfing", where you 'ride' a coal trolley down a track on a mine shaft. The game has recently been changed so you can take a puffle with 'you' ('you' being a penguin)

puffle

So DS wanted to know had I ever played the game cart surfing with a black puffle! :o

Can I start today over? Please?

There should def be a rewind optioon on time.

Physio is now suggesting that I may have fractured my radial head as it hurts and I can't rotate from my elbow. Hve to ask on thurs for them to xray it while they are looking at my wrist. Joy.

Oh bggr re radial joint thingy, CMOT

How's everyone else doing?

Ouch, CMOT. Am a bit surprised they didn't x-ray the whole arm the first time round, just in case, but hope it all works out for you Thursday. Will you know then?

Mulled wine -- am I being a complete cheapie considering buying the £3.49/£3.79/£4.00 bottles of either store brand or on-offer wine for my kits? I'm going to be making about 10 of them, so don't want to spend loads on alcohol. On a positive, though, I have all of the spices I need and baskets that will work for the kits, so very happy. Just need to order the muslin cloth/squares, buy the wine and shread the red/green/cream craft paper to make shreddies for the baskets.

I am very much looking forward to my clinic appointment with the doctor on Friday. I suddenly feel like I'm not coping, either physically or mentally. I'm also tired of the almost non-stop migraine that just will not shift. I'm still doing things, and going to play groups and outtings with BabyScout because I don't want to take my bad day/cr@p feelings out on him, but it's becoming more and more of a struggle to smile. And when he wails (for very reasonable reasons, like hungry/tired/falling over and hurting himself) I just want to cry along with him. I find myself getting frustrated when he won't cooperate/won't stay nicely so I can change his bottom (which I know is completely irrational as he's a BABY). It's not normal/right. I wish I was (physically) closer to my mom for help.

Go for the easy option on Mulled Wine. Put your feet up. Have a virtual hug (of appropriate and safe sort) or convert it to a large box of chocs.

More virtual hugs for Scout and CMOT.

Poor Scout. It's so hard to feel like crap for days on end. You'll let us know what the GP says?

CMOT, I am too that they didn't x-ray the elbow. It should be common knowledge that you x-ray the elbow when there has been a disastrous bad wrist fracture.

On the bright(er) side, it may not be a fracture. The radial head is held in place by an annular (ring-shaped) ligament and you can literally sprain that ligament. Or briefly dislocate and then relocate the radial head at the elbow. Both of which would hurt like buggery, especially once a cast comes off and there is more motion at the elbow.
Are you still on pain killers? And if yes, are you taking them? None of that feet-shuffling now, miss. Tell the truth.

:o

We have the builders starting with our renovations today. I know this is shockingly ignorant of me but I had no idea how much work it was going to be for us. Such as, moving furniture and stuff from room to room. It's Day 1 and I'm already tired. I was feeling completely unmotivated yesterday - it was bloody cold here and I could not get warm and I think I had a turkey-and-red-wine hangover (more ) and bless DH, he went downstairs and shifted most of the piles of crap furniture by himself. What a man.

My black eye is slowly dissipating. Now it just looks like very badly applied make-up :o which is actually what MIL thought it was!! LOL. When she came to pick us up to go to DH's rellies for dinner on Sunday, she gave me a few puzzled looks and then finally came straight out and asked, "your eye, errrrr..." (which is about as straight-out as she ever gets :o). We laughed hysterically when we realized she really did think I'd dipped into the wine a bit early and just messed up my make-up. ROFL. What a fruitcake. But I do love her. :o

Look at this everyone who needs cheering up. Move the mouse about! I am sadly astonished at what computers can do [technophobe ] and astonished that I am lucky enough to live here!

Had a wonderful day at the seaside today; sparkling blue sea and sky, lo-o-ong shadows on the sand, Wriggle digging holes for hours with her bucket and spade and finding beautiful shells inbetween playing baby dragons with her friends and another mum to chat to while watching them.

CMOT, are you going private? If not, is it not time? My sister went to a private consultant months after her serious motorbike accident and at least a week in hospital, with several subsequent operations ... to discover that a muscle in her arm was only attached at one end and that it was now too late to repair it.

Hey everyone,

As you can see, I've been a bit talkative on the One Child board this evening but didn't want to neglect you.

Sorry I don't pop by very often, but I'm not very good at keeping track with the conversation. Might be because I run an online learning company and with all the other online conversations/meetings etc I think I reach online chat overload!
Anyway just wanted to say hello and a little thank you for those who helped me with my little problemette the other week - you'll be glad to here dh has been contrite and loving ever since being an complete idiot!

Glad you're feeling better. Don't worry about not following the conversation - just jump in! We seem to be on Gluehwein, even though the dreaded C word is months away; do have some.

I feel quite pathetic, but I am sooooo looking forward to lunch with my friend (and, of course, BabyScout) today. Real adult conversation. Even though we'll talk about BabyScout and take care of him, feeding, etc., chat that isn't JUST about BabyScout and with someone I've known for almost as long as I've been in this country. No superficial natter about babies playing (at a tots group). Real conversation with a real friend. I think it's just what I need.

Not pathetic at all Scout - you need real conversation sometimes.

Dh is trying to fit a new, integrated, fridge freezer atm. This is never good as he gets right narked at diy, and I am not a lot of use.

Not sure why theydidn't xray my elbow, but I guess that what I did to my wrist suggests a force path that didn't go up my arm. I am seeing the top hand man, so going private would still mean seeing him, and nhs physio is v convenient

Don't feel guilty Scout, ENJOY it! :)

Grrr - another bad day.

They played this in Monoprix and... I left the shop because I thought I was going to cry.

Is anyone else glued to the telly or the Internet watching the Chilean mine rescue? I was up watching CNN until stupid o'clock, dreamed about it all night and have been riveted to my laptop at work. My patients have been a little at me. Oh well.

Small, you ok? Can we do anything?

Oh tea, can I offer you a warm, comforting beverage and a fuzzy blanket?

Lunch was LOVELY and just what Scout needed. My friend is one of the first people I truly became friends with after I moved here. We used to work together (the first UK job I had) and so whenever we have lunch I go to my old job. It's very nice to sit and chat and have a laugh. BabyScout was his usual flirting self. But it was just so nice to not have superficial chat, but a real, deep, meaning conversation. I don't mind chit-chat, but it felt so good to have more. I feel almost human for the first time in days.

That's very sad, isn't it?

Been watching the miners come up -- the live stream from in the mine is amazing. It really makes me realize that if men can survive that I can deal with medicinal side effects.

Cross-posts with Small and JB.

Small, I've missed you. Everything okay?

JB, yes, watching as well.

ummm, glue wine, yes please. just the ticket on a chilly evening. I shall pop my tankard there, on top of the woodburner, to keep warm.

strange, my browser crashed last last night, seemingly not sending the above message, as its here waiting for me tonight... weird. however, mulled wine is ALWAYS welcome, so come on girls lets glug.

Is mojo anything like Joie de vivre? It seems a bit lacking at the moment. Did anyone try my lovely website, to look at all the flowers and butterflies? If you wait a bit you see a little sailing boat coming into Lyme Bay.

A bit damn chilly tonight in the cricket pavillion. Time for Mellors to light the woodburner and air the fluffy blankets, I think.

The thing is I find the song a little OTT and bleeeaaauuugh usually too but I am finding it increasingly hard to fit in with certain aspects of Parisian culture and Billy Joel singing that he loves me "just the way I am" when Paris obviously doesn't was just too much!!!

I tried your website, un serpent - it was fun!

A fire - what a fab idea!!!