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.

Ah, i see! Yum yum!

What's up with your poor fingers? :(

Oh. A couple normally split/crack once a winter and then heal. However, they (currently 8 out of 10) have been since September. Have been to the doctor for some medical cream, etc. But don't really see them getting to normal until I stop my current medicines/stop having to change nappies/it's not winter. (I see at least another two years of nappies in my future.)

Tell us about yourself, MJ.

Quick question - I'm planning a lesson on how music is used to create emotion/atmosphere and I need some suggestions. Any genre. So far I have Allegri's Miserere, possibly Adoremus te domine Taize chant, now I need something euphoric and uplifting. I thought of I'm a believer but thought Shrek might leap too rapidly to mind. Any ideas?

Ouch! You poor thing! That sounds horrid!!

Ok........

Am 34, 1st time mum, live in The Highlands. DH works off-shore (days to months at a time - we never know :( )
Had DD 9 1/2 months ago, 7 weeks prem. Was AWFUL! I had 11 day stay in hosp, post-op complications (still got some!), and she was in SCBU for a month. She is doing really well now though, phew!

That's it in a nutshell really!

Would take up the whole of MN if i wrote everything!!!!! Lol!

UnSerp, it sounds odd but by Hot Butter (or ) and Pomp & Circumstance.

And hi to missjulie. Very isolated in the Highlands? On a picturesque mountainside? I have one DD aged four, who was 5 weeks in scbu and is perfectly OK. Although very hard to get to bed. Only just fallen asleep now.

Hi unserp!
Oh dear, blooming sleep probs!
I wish i was on a mountain-side! Am in the country though, and yes, isolated! Very hard to find northern Scots on here!

I loved Popcorn! I am downloading it at this very minute! Great idea. So is Pomp and Circumstance, but I thought it might be time to try another kind of music.

I love I'm A Believer but the Shrek connection had passed me by.

You did say any genre, non?

I always find .

BabyScout just turned 15 months this weekend. I am now a SAHM (and very happy being one, though know not everyone can be one and/or would be happy being one). I have a lot of health issues so am thankful for BabyScout (who is a generally a happy-chappy). I am American living in England (MrScout is English) so have funny spellings/phrases and ask loads of questions.

How about Carmina Burana ? Can't beat that for emotion !

Zadok the Priest
I was Glad
With a voice of singing
Rejoice Greatly from the Messiah
Alleluia by Mozart
Widor's Toccata

or for the more esoteric listener:

Dreaming Spires (piano piece - can't remember who wrote it)

The Lake Lay Blue by Arnold Bax

Sound Track to Forbidden Planet is always good for that kind of lesson, as is Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz and the Ride of the Valkyries. Probably have lesson plans somewhere in my office for a couple of them if you can wait a few days.

::quakes under chair::

Adagio for Strings by Barber

Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten by Arvo Part (nicely twinned with Old Abram Brown, from Friday Afternoons by Britten)

That Black Sabbath track with the storm and the tolling bell like something out of Wuthering Heights

I MUST GO TO BED

I always think of graduation when I hear Pomp & Circumstance (Tee might agree with me on that) and it drives MrScout crazy. Have used Popcorn doing a "create to music" type activity and always get interesting/creative/fun results.

I'd love a hot choc. Puter ate my post, or rather puter crashed taking my post with it. any how, conversation has moved on.

I'm too busy to be a WOHM I think, I don;t count the odd lunchtime supervising school dinners as WORK. Its just something to keep me in beer. Today I was working in exchange for wood. tomorrow I shall be bending my head round planning and flood risk stuff, buts that not WORK, its volunteering. I have half a hundred things to do in teh garden and a house to decorate but they are not WORK either. BUT, I bet you, before half term term someone on the school run will have asked me what I'm going to do with myself now boys at school and am I looking for WORK, no, I'm not, but work seems to come and find me.

really not sure boy would cope with much childminding after school presently, hes still knackered and comes home to demand food ,slump and watch Ceebies most days. However he will find out what sits like to be childminded in a couple of weeks as I have some WORK ( paid) lined up for 4 days midweek.
note to those who are newish- Unis is self employed, she does various stuff in her line of WORK ( paid) and lots of other stuff besides.

MrScout actually did a job I asked him to do. I only had to ask once AND he did it on the night I asked him.

Also just got the funniest look when I said "Watch out for the London Bus in bed" as MrScout went up. Surely that's not THAT odd.... [ha!]

Great minds, BoffinMum - I had suggested the Widor too.

. Heaven sounds like this. . You surely will.

Scout - i too am now a SAHM - i resigned on wed! Woo hoo!!!

Just curious -- those with toddler boys, do your boys have "dressing up" boxes and what do you have in them? I really want to do one for BabyScout (already have a Robin Hood outfit from when went to Sherwood Forest) but people look at me strangely when I say I want to do one.

I LOVED resigning -- it made me so incredibly happy and light.

Yeah, me toooooo! :)