Tea Room the Nineteenth

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All in need of a restful break and a chat are more than welcome to the nineteenth Tea Room.

We find ourselves in the South of France, where the warm sunshine is just the thing for those who are missing the summer. The tea room has its aga and its distressed chintz sofa...and its potted plants. The usual fictional tea room inhabitants are here, as ever: Mellors, the gardener/handyperson with the handy ways with massage; the collection of tea room animals including the horses, camel, bison, guineapigs and sundry others; the Bishops and other faith leaders who joined us a while back and potter in for the occasional cuppa. It may not make sense, but that's not important. What matters is the lovely people here and the chance to just relax.

I can't believe there's only a week of being home left.

Wow this all very exciting... Donki and Oxeye moving to the other tearoom. I'm off you say hello over there.

Sorry to hear about the various illnesses being suffered. Impetigo sounds horrid, as dues Wriggle's cough. And JM the stiches thing sounds absolutely horrendous. Get Mr. JM down the chemist at once for the spray. There are no bonus points for suffering (as told to me by a very wise Dr. when I was resisting his perscription of sleeping pills and anti-ds a few years ago). You know he was right. Don't be stoic.... get the medicine.

Kittenito also has a nasty every 2 minute type cough. I have the flu and possibly (going on the pain in my back) my first chest infection of winter (Hurrah )

Time always flies when you don't want it to. Scout. Have you done and see all you wanted to?

Oh scout - I feel for you - that last week always passes in the twinkle of an eye as well!

A note of hope maybe - when we were children, my brother caught impetigo - he had his own flannels and own towels and no one else in the house got it, so it is possible to avoid.

Boo to pains and ill children and people - I spent most of yesterday and this morning sneezing my head off - but it seems to have calmed down now and my nose isn't running like an Olympian any more, so I'm really hoping whatever it is has fecked off. Don't know if it's prelim to a cold or if it's allergic but it's bloody annoying. Oh actually - I took ibuprofen an hour or so ago, maybe that's why it's calmed down.

Oxeye - hurrah for joining us in t'other room!

oxeye, I'm Thames Valley based. Pair of kittens - have a look on the Diana Brimblecombe site. If they're still there, it's a black and a ginger pair. Very bold and cheerful.
Can add a cough and feeling a bit peculiar to the tea room list of bugs? And I've got to meet a load of dignitaries later...eeek...

Oh dear about all the various ailments. The itchy stitches sound grim, JBM, so I hope you've got them anaesthetised by now.

Bother bother bother
I am not in the other tea room I cannot find my way there at all

Oxeye - did you follow Scout's instructions by PM? You need to find her in t'other place, then she will invite you to the tearoom and when you accept, you are in.

Drowning under piles of work sounds rubbish - I am glad I don't have to do that at the moment (although I could if I chose - there are a few articles I could be writing if I wanted to).

Oxeye, do you need the Tea Room duvet and a large virtual hug from Mellors?

Would anyone care for some soup du jour avec des petits pains tres lewd?

Have just come back from a lengthy but ultimately fruitless shopping expedition. Merde.

Oui oui, soup du jour would be tres splendide. Avec un large brandy?

Un brandy? Je crois que non. Mais un Bolly? Ca va tres bien.

Oxeye, I often can't find the other tea room either. And that's after my first visit. At bit Hogwarts-ish in that way. A moving staircase, perhaps.

Lots of sympathy re various ailments and a large bowl of soupe du jour, s'il vous plait.

Got Wriggle at lunch time from nursery, due to her totally collapsing in bits at being taken, crying and crying and crying in the car and begging me not to take her, becuase she was 'too tired'. Of course when I picked her up she was fine and the good ladies there assured me I had been had. Then she fell asleep two minutes after I strapped her in the car - unheard of. So there, KnowItAllSmugProfessionals. I had assured her that I would have no time to play with her this afternoon as she shouldn't be here, and she is studiously ignoring me in favour of AP. AP is in a depression because, having knitted hundreds of pairs of socks in hher life, she can't remember how the heel goes. And I don't know. Am trying to put it down to nasty cold and bump on the head.

oxeye
In my FB page, it is well hidden in the Groups tab on the left hand side of the page. That is where the invitation hid itself too - with no announcement or indication on my main FB page at all.

Very excited about seeing Oxeye in the other tea room (although since I never remember who anyone is, I may not even know I am seeing you.)

Hope Amber is now recovering from her walk along the sea fron with a strong cup of coffee. Since we are in France, it will be the size of a thimble, but STRONG.

Life is stressful at the moment, please forgive the c&p and run, before I disappear down the priest's hole (currently renamed the jerk's hole, and not because I am a jerk, if you get my drift...)

Just back from my appt at the gastroenterology clinic. Am being referred for an endoscopy, when he realised I wasn't happy with a straight "its IBS" diagnosis. That won't be for at least 6 weeks. My blood pressure is also high 141/95 which is unusual as I've never had high blood pressure before, but understandable given the stressful day I've had.

DS in trouble at school. His DS has been confiscated (work that out if you can! LOL). He's playing a game which he got on Saturday, all he wants to do is play it, and I suspect his "being bored" at lunchtime is tied in with not being able to play it. Now he's been told that getting his DS back will be on a day by day basis - good daily report from school, he gets it back. Bad report, it gets confiscated.

Poor MaryDS. Have never understood the lure of the DS; hope Wriggle doesn't take to it (but she probably will). Did he do something terrible when he was bored?

I have to admit I like playing Professor Layton on the DS . According to his behaviour book, he pinched 3 children because "he was bored". He is also in trouble, because he just now spat at DH (I was cooking a pancake for DH and said to DS, if DH didn't come soon, he could have it, and DH walked in, just as it was ready). Argh.

I think long lunch hours are a trial for a lot of children, especially boys who don't play football. If you are not popular and gregarious you can so easily get left out, miserable and resentful. I would love to see activities for all sorts of children. I used to hide so that I could read and I don't think my school now is any different.

Oh dear Mary - hope it resolves soon.:(

oxeye - you are not yet on the list of members of the Tearoom so you won't see it anywhere on your page until you are.

Small - abortive shopping trip? That's very distressing! I am not a great fan of shopping so do like them to work out when I go.

Serpent - :( re AP and sock-heel-turning ishoos - it's a horrible feeling, not being able to exactly remember what you have known how to do for years. Amazingly, that happened to me not that long ago (and I can't even remember what I was doing but it was something I used to know exactly how to do, and then hadn't done it for ages and had a complete mental block halfway through! Worked out in the end though). Perhaps it is a glitch - has she not done any socks for a while?
:) re Wriggle.

No, worryingly, she had just finsihed the first one!
How is life DownUnder with pooey nappies?

coping thank you! I was on the pottytraining thread - pleased to see that DS is still within normal range of not being trained :)

evening all you itchy scratchy, fluish coughy people and children.

Boy not wildly itchy thankfully, but VERY spotty. Don't think he will be at preschool or ballet tomorrow, but I have the car, so care less, as we can head for the hills and go letterbox or geocaching.

Cinnabons, my favourite, thank you lovely people. after fish n chips from the pub ( take out) and a few beers I think some sugar is just what I need.