The One-Child Tea Room, version 21... the Hawaiian Islands. Cocktails, anyone?

[Jacksmama]

Welcome everyone to the 21st (!!!) One-Child Tea Room. Not to be misleading, we do have inhabitants who have or are planning more than one! Everyone is welcome.

The usual rules apply: no fisticuffs, or you will be escorted out by Mellors the Hunky Gardener. Depending on your preference, he looks variously like Daniel Craig, George Clooney, David Boreanaz, Gerard Depardieu... I have a feeling we all see something different but whatever we see makes us drool! And considering that this Tea Room is in the Hawaiian Islands, whoever we see is definitely shirtless! :o

Cocktails, non-alcoholic beverages, yummy food that is entirely without fattening effects, and lewd rolls abound in the Tea Room. There is also a full cappucino bar.

This is essentially A Tea Room of Requirement, and we're currently on the lovely sandy beaches of Maui, with beach huts, lounge chairs, cabanas, mango and papaya trees, and of course, lots of coffee directly from Kona.

Pop on in and stay a while. We may all seem a bit mad eccentric but we're very friendly!

Ooooh - I hadn't noticed, scout. But I always worry about the way she eats her chips with her mouth open in 'Papa don't preach'... bllleeeeeeaaaauuugh!!!

My friend and I used to sit in our rooms and try to mimic the Cherish move and figure out WHY. Oh, haven't noticed the PDP one - possibly because I really dislike that song so tend to turn it off/avoid.

I remember telling my friend (who is one of MrScout's best friends) soon after I moved here that I had no idea who Take That is/was (while watching a special on them with her).

No Biff and Chip here - they use 4 or 5 different schemes at DS's school and swap the children around on them as needed for different things. ATM we have nice ones for with an introduction for the adult to read, then the childrens following on

DS has bf sleeping over tonight, and yes, they are actually sleeping !

I think we get stuck with what was cool when we were teenagers. I used to have beer and cd nights with my Dad. I would play him something new and he would say. "Gah, it's been done before. That riff is a rip of, of this..."

... but of course what he played me would have been a rip off of something before!

Random fact:

My friend and I used to dance on the green to this..

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CLASSIC!

CMOT - I love that idea of parent models reading and then child reads. I have seen usborne ones that I don't find 'hit the nail' BUT tell me WHO publishes the one of which you speak...???

I really wish I could sew/crochet/knit. FAB pattern for BabyScout....

::staggers in late to the party::

So much to catch up on.

I was weeping because Serpent didn't want to meet me ::sniff:: But I'm feeling better now ::big sniff::

Amber - Hugs and shoulder rubs coming your way.

Biff, Chip and Kipper - pah!

To everyone else, much love and Bolly.

If it's Madonna night then we must .

::throws wild shapes::

wow- two princes- awesome.
I also liked the the, pink floyd and marilion. with a major soft spot for and its ilk.

but I think they may have been my boyfriends parents era rather than ours really. just his parents had rather good record collections.

Marzipan and hot choc anyone?? or beer and crisps, your choice. I've had both, but not in that order.

Sorry about ruining floppy floppy for you tea, wasn't intended to be quite as dirty as you are remembering it now. WHen do B,C and K go to school? how do they find time for all this stuff.

Oooh. If we're having Tainted Love,

::throws more wild electro shapes::

I see your blue monday and I raise you probadlythe only kylie song I would go and look for on you tube.
liked this when it came out, not so sure now.

Wow, UniS. That is extraordinary. I love it. I love Kylie (although I don't like all her songs).

::Throws more shapes and goes to rummage on YT::

Hello ladies! Oh the memories! I was a Marrillion/Deacon Blue/Del Amitri gal myself. Also Bon Jovi and the Housemartins

Also Am opting for short posts because I have lost count of the number of times I have lost long ones after being interrupted.
I'm looking at schools for Kittenito. In the Mexican system he will be in Y1 Kindergarten from August. I'm having to check both here and Mexico City as it still isn't clear where we will be by then. MC is mote expensive but the schools are better and more offer bilingualism (English/Spanish. Here is cheaper but less choice. In both public school is out SS standards are Crap.
I am not chuffed about paying and were we in the UK I wouldn't go private, but here it seems inevitable. Darn.

What are the odds of ending up in Mexico City, do you reckon? Sounds a better option?

::picks her way through last night's party guests, still asleep on the floor::

Today, going out somewhere and doing something. Wish I knew what

MrScout came down last night around 6:15 (he worked from home) and I said about starting to get BabyScout ready for bed. MrScout said "oh, I was just going to ask BabyScout if he wanted to go for an adventure." Now, if he told me when we went for lunch, or even when BabyScout got up for nap we could have left for the adventure last night. But no, he didn't mention it and couldn't quite understand why an hour's notice with BabyScout would have been nice. So we're off this morning and probably not back until tomorrow night.

Sounds intriguing!! I have visions of white water rafting, cliff climbing, trekking through jungles...

Nothing so adventures I'm afraid! (Besides, MrScout doesn't "do water" if you know what I mean.)

No, every February for the last few years we've been going up to the Potteries to do a bit of Mother's Day/Mothering Sunday/Birthdays/Christmas shopping. We also do a bit of sight-seeing (last year we went to Sherwood Forest). We decided to go early this year but kept it open/flexible (as in, didn't book a room weeks ahead of time). MrScout sprung it "let's go now!" Great, yes, but BabyScout needs a bit packed and that takes a few minutes. Unlike us, we can wear the same clothes and just grab our washkits. Ah well, nicer to travel in the day.

Another old Girl Scout friend has gone to the big sing-a-long in the sky. This one I am actually quite sad/emotional about. Another woman in her 90s who was absolutely fabulously wonderful. I was in my early 20s when we went to the National Sing-a-Long in Washington DC. She was in her 80s then and I had to run to keep up with her on the Metro and throughout the Mall.

::Scout stands and gives S a Girl Scout salute and says "Thank you for all of the memories and help and encouragement throughout my GS Life."::

The way my mentors seem to be dropping, I honestly hope God has a big campfire in Heaven where they're all meeting, having s'mores and songs and that I'll be around that fire with them some day.

Oh, Scout, that's sad about your friend.

. Perhaps it's not such a bad choice for absent friends?

::Does Brownie salute::

Sorry to hear about your friend Scout. Not being a religious sort, I tend to think that a person is always around ) if you remember them and cherish the times you had together.

And, oh my, the Proclaimers. I can remember dancing at the student union to this every Friday night for at least a term. And the Fife accent, you've got to love it, much better than a mock American one loved by so many Brit groups.

Mexico City is looking increading probably Amber. Mr. H is on a mission to get himself a job too. I am pleased because the situation here is not getting any better: the violence is slowly creeping nearer and nearer. Now it's not friends of friends, but actual friends being kidnapped/threatened at gunpoint, students trapped in their villages unable to get to town because all the roads are blocked by the narcos.

But life goes on, as it is wont to do, more or less normally.

Sorry to hear about your friend Scout.

I fell all glam, having used my Christmas nail salon voucher this morning. My fingers are red.

So now have access to links. So here goes:

(and did I have a crush on Justin Currie)

Scout, great sadness about the loss of your friend. May her memory live on...

Catita, eek re the increasing and encroaching violence. What a situation for you. I hope Mexico City is hugely more peaceful.

After battling with plants in the garden part of the afternoon, my nails are not in the best of condition, but the pots look good.

Scout - She will never really be dead because she will live on in the difference she has made to you and you will pass that difference onto scoutboy he will pass it down to his child/children/people he meets and so on and so on.