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!

M Bragg was my first crush.

::blusherama::

Bleerdy 'ell Cat - Violence + being in academia = generally trouble!!! Getting out seems like a good plan for you and your family.

technni - I accidently called "The Grove" shopping centre nearby where I grew up "The Groove" for ages thanks to your Madonna song.

And only when I started singing REALLY loudily to this song one day did my sister correct me - "She is singing 'I miss you like crazy', tea, not 'I wish you like gravy'!"

Scout - :( for the loss of your friend.

Catita - fingers crossed that you can escape your current location and move to MC in time for Kittenito to start school there.

Could I please be a complete bore and ask you all to name your songs in your links? Then i can join in the appreciation without having to click on them - because I am generally on here late at night/early morning (currently 5am -argh!) I find it rather hard to "do" music links without waking anyone, sometimes the volume is a bit erratic! I know it's very tedious of me but I would be very grateful, thank you...

Bugger it appears that my message of 10 minutes ago did not appear.

I said that I was not going to mention T42 comments to Mr. H as he is already too big for his boots as a result of his TV appearence last year. I also said that I was emabarking on my own media career as a result (although the need to impress future employers is also a factor). I've put the link in the other place.

Thumb Deacon Blue "Wages Day", Del Amitri "Spit in the Rain" and "Driving with the Brakes on". The Proclaimers was "I would be (500 miles)".

Oh yes and I agreed with having a crush on MB. Me too since my youth and only because of his voice (the male equivalent to Jenni Murray I think)and general admiration of his novels. I didn't see him in reallife (ie on the TV) until I was at university.

Catita - Have you read many of MB's novels? Whisper it not, but I found some of them a bit tedious. But I still heart him. On a purely intellectual level.

Have I told you before about quite literally bumping into him? I was scurrying through Covent Garden in the rain with my head down, walked into a man clad in a Burberry mac, looked up and it was Saint Melvyn.

A gift for Catita (and me).

Gosh, he's 71, you know.

I read the series of semiautobiographical novels he wrote about his life. They appealed to me greatly at the time as I suppose I thought myself also a great intellectual lost in youth, provincial obscurity and parental incomprehension. I don't know about the others though, I haven't read any of his recent stuff (there's not a great demand for it here!).

71. Gosh. I still think of him as a fiftysomething.

Oh and thanks for the link

And, obviously, on the almost bumping into him

Well it was hardly glamorous. Just left me feeling like a complete twerp.

HI all. had a busy day here. Think I'll come into the tea room and put my feet up. I'll be on the sofa with a book if any one wants me.

Gingerbread and hot choc for any one?

Yes, please UniS. We've just made vanilla fudgey muffins. If they taste OK, I'll bring some to share.

ohh, they sound nice. I intend to make tiffin this weekend, but I intend to do a lot of things and something is bound to get pushed to bottom of pile.

They look nice too but are still too hot to eat. The recipe comes from my muffin porn book.

::whispers::

I think it's even cheaper if you buy it from the Book People.

Ooh, might get that Techno. I love the Book People for cookery books.

Sleepover went fabulously - ds's friend is a total sweetheart when with us (they do the Kevin and Perry thing where visiting child is angelic and 'home' child does all the bad behaviour), and it was heart stoppingly sweet to look in on them and see them asleep in each others arms. Friend announced to her mum that she was moving in with us

Bolly and twiglet a la mode ?

Mais oui, Cmot. S'il te plait.

::Hands you a medal for sleepover bravery::

Howdy.

I'm totally brain dead this morning due to lack of sleep. Nothing like chronic pain to keep you awake. LCT slept great, though!

::hands round coffee/tea and full English::

Tee, grr re pain levels.

::grabs large tea, after a morning herding ds and his best mate to the transport for their national rugby league match::

Church, then lunch out with hubby, then trip into Windsor. Should be good.

nearly finished decorating the dining room, put Piano in place tonight, just lampshade, lightswitch and curtains to go now. BUT mainly PAINTING finished. Hurrah.

so, mines a celebratory pint of wino, what about you, what are you celebrating tonight?

Well done, UniS. I'm celebrating the death of our telly (and, it seems our central heating, bbrrr) by going to bed. But I'll take a pint of vino collapso with me.

Good night all!

::blows kisses::

Blah. Can't believe I missed dance night but you gals are so of my era. My madonna/ prince/ wham quotient has rather reduced since meeting rather more musically sophisticated oxbloke
my first album was AdM and the ants (lp) first tape was Police
2 tapes for £4 each. A ruddy fortune. Regatta de blanc and zenyatta mondatta. You can see it burnt a memory bluing all that money in one go

sorry for loss scout

hugs to all

::Pauses on the way to bed to hug Oxeye to her ample bosom and ::

(Open it with the sound off if you're nervous)

::Sighs over the young Sting:

::Bops up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire::

My first album was the Bay City Rollers. My second album was Desire by Bob Dylan. You could say my musical tastes developed quite rapidly.

A domani.