Tea room 22- A Farmhouse kitchen, anyone for a cuppa?

[UniS]

Welcome to the 22nd incarnation of the tea room. This time we are watching for spring from a cosy farmhouse kitchen. There is an aga for baking virtual cakes and an inglenook with toasty fire and settles to rest weary bones on. The distressed chintz sofa and footstool have arrived safe and sound and the priest hole is around here somewhere. On the Window sill is an aspidistra its pot surrounded by a hand holding circle of nearly naked mohawk babies, they have placards and a brazier.

Outside in the surrounding fields can be found the tea room horses, Earl and Lady Grey, also a herd of bison AND a Ha Ha to keep the bishops from invading.

Usual rules apply, no fisticuffs, if you want an argument go else where. Mellors the butler / game keeper will supply all sorts of things on request. Welcome Mums of one, none or many to the tea room of requirement.

P.P.S - I fell asleep listening to this last night and thought if you haven't heard it before you'd like it too unserp...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054653

I do like it. I got it out of the library as a talking book and went to sleep listening to it for a week.

Hello everyone.

It's a very grey and gloomy afternoon here, so I bring you some . I have no idea what he's singing about, but it cheered me up no end when I heard it yesterday!

::sashays around the tea room::

Sunny here, though freezing cold!

Yay, FineLad and his team have just won their 10th match in a row, and he's scored a try!

::joins in the sashaying::

Beautifully sunny all day here. Well done, that Fine Lad!

Wre you there on the touchline, Amber? Well done to the FineTeam and the FineLad!

Ah yes, I and dh were both there, along with many many other parents, leaping about and yelling cheerfully like a set of schoolchildren. How we're not already disowned by our strapping lads is beyond me . I think I might warm up in a couple of hours...

Would some hot chcocolate be in order here?

Is there a time when hot chocolate isn't in order?

::tee is confused::

Possibly with whipped cream on top?

::Places jugs of hot chocolate and whipped cream and an iced ginger cake on the aga::

After my incident last christmas when I hadn't eaten all day, and then got a large hot chocolate from Starbucks before getting on a plane, I can confirm that there is a time when a hot chocolate isn't in order.

Yay for Finelad !

Hurrah for fine lad and friends.

Yay for FineLad! (I'm not sure what that means but it sounds impressive!) [Don't understand rugby emoticon]

Yay for FineLad. (although I also have no idea what that means)

::Tee confesses her biggest fear is that LCT will play either Cricket or Rugby, neither of which she understands::

Phew. Survived a family (in laws) wedding without social calamity.

Everybody was staying at the hotel where the reception was. Our room turned out to be over the Disco - which finished around 12.30am. It was nearly as loud in our room as it was in the Disco proper.

Poor YD had great difficulty getting to sleep - plus DH woke me up at 1.30 am coming into the room, and about 3 hours later going to the loo. Followed by the YD waking up at 6.15 am because he was cold.

So rather tired.

Other than that it was very fine. The village was very Cotswolds, as was the hotel. We saw the VWH out hunting as we drove from the church to the hotel. YD wanted to know what the man dressed in red on a horse was doing...

Not my sort of wedding at all really. I can appreciate the aesthetics, but spending that much on a dress/food/decorations/stretch limo seems very extravagent to me... I think our wedding (OK, 10 years ago) cost - In total, and with a similar number of guests - less than half the cost of the bride's dress.
Our guests did not starve - and seemed to enjoy themselves. Admitedly on Quaker premises there was no alcohol. Can't say I missed it. At least we didn't have problems with drunk guests at the end of the evening.

Makes me sound very curmudgeonly - I admit that when short on sleep I get a bit grumpy...

I think everyone enjoyed the wedding, and thought it a right grand success. It was what the bride wanted - and she looked beautiful.

That. is. much. better.

Now I need to try and book flights to Alaska (Juneau) for the summer.

Where best to begin? Any ideas? [clueless emoticon]

And a belated WELL DONE to Fine Lad for his rugby exploits.

I lived in Cambridge for about 3 years - loved the city. Missed the hills.

Hello, Donki.

I share your curmudgeonliness about OTT weddings. What SIL spent of our money on flowers at her wedding (and I love flowers so didn't stint at my own wedding) was about five times what we spent at ours and would have paid for us to have a holiday at Center Parcs. Am I bitter? No comment.

Bolly and a carrot?

Would love the carrot. Thankyou.

Giving me Bolly would clear the tea room in fairly short order - it has "Unfortunate Effects on a Donki's Digestion".
(toasted the bride etc in red wine instead)

Thank you, err, for that information, Donki.

::Passes a bucket of carrottes a la mode::

I wanted a BBQ in Windsor Great Park but October wedding meant couldn't do it. Had a low-key wedding which was lovely. The church we got married in is older than my country -- it was Fantastic.

Went to one of those really posh, extravagent weddings the summer I was pregnant. It was impressive but I felt out of my depth and uncomfortable (very hot and even at seven months I was HUGE so very physically uncomfortable as well).

Donki, Do you have an airline preference and/or a number of lay-over preference?

Sorry LVET - my sensibilities were much coarsened by working on a stable yard for a number of years. Having a child didn't help...

DH is often cross with me for getting social boundaries wrong...

Scout
Price preference mainly..
No layovers would be good to minimize travel time, I guess. But not if the airline we then had to fly on was vile...
I think we have to have a change of flights if we go from Manchester. BA/Iberia fly direct to Seattle from LHR and it looks a much shorter travel time. We could probably drive to BIL's and stay overnight there (and leave the car), then travel the rest of the way by train.

DH is rather tall - so needs a bit of leg room.

I have only flown the other way before - so with Singapore Airline and Emirates. Which were brilliant.

I don't know much about the airlines which go to the US.

Was going to suggest BA to Seattle and then up.

How are the poorly children this evening?

I had posh, extravagent wedding and had a blardy fantastic time, as did all our mates. We are all still talking about it - it was a brilliant party and my parents paid for the vast bulk of it too, as they were so glad to be able to marry me off. I would do it again tomorrow given half a chance (with the same bloke, too!)