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.

I was a brave girl today. I asked mum of BabyScout's swimming buddy if they'd like to go to Ye Ol' University Town with us -- and she said yes. YAY! AND us swimming parents and littles are going to go to lunch again in two weeks. Double YAY!

This making new friends business is hard work and very scary.

(was aleady lying on Chesterfield)

Yay re friend, Scout!!!!

See, this is why we need the fainting couch!

Anyway, D part of D&V not actually over.

::collapses on fainting couch::

Soup Du Jour sounds lovely. Were the Jours a very good price? I find them expensive most of the time.

Also, today appears to be a non-napping day. Although he's asleep on his feet. BABIES! or, rather TODDLERS!

Hmmmmppppfttt...

How may I assist you, BoffinMum?

D'oh, Tee. Poor LCT! And poor you for having a non-napping baby. I find those days the hardest.

New laminator is LOVELY.

Techno, what are you doing with your girlies tonight?

Sep, how's the music?

Amber, any luck finding the missing land?

We're finishing off a badge (won't say which just in case some of the mummies are also MNers and I finally blow my cover)!

I want to go to Serpent's school to hear all the music with the children. I think it will be wonderful.

We're cooking and card making. That reminds me, must go find adaptor....

Scout, how long have you been in the UK?

I am currently having the pleasure of a small boy standing across the room crying for no reason. Everything I do to comfort him is met with snarls and hits. So I'm ignoring him.

Cocktail anyone? It must be 5pm somewhere.

Permanently? About five and a half years. Moved the summer before the (October) wedding. You?

I think it's 5 p.m. in Eastern Europe so cocktail time!

Hi all!

Got awfully lonely on here last night!!! Thought i had done something to offend!!! Lol!

Hope you are all having a lovely day! xx

Hi MissJ!

Na, I just gave up and went to bed after 11 p.m. Don't sleep well so take what I can get and BabyScout gets up approx the same time every day, no matter what time he goes to sleep, so no lie-in for me! And Tuesdays are always busy (baby swimming in the morning and Guides in the evening) so I try to get as many zzzzs as possible on Monday nights.

Good day?

It was 7 years this past September. Moved the year before we got married.

Crikey! What a busy day you have!
We're having not too bad a day, thanks!
Am trying to help someone on Facebook. Do any of you know how to link 2 different facebook profiles together? She runs 2 groups, both named different, but on a similar subject, and only updates one of the profiles, when both should be updated. She wonders if there is a way you can link both the sites, so that when you update one profile, the other profile automatically updates??????

We found the missing land!!! A very nice man took us there. Hurrah!

MJ, not a clue re Facebook linkages alas.

I'm jolly tired. I wonder if it's because I haven't slept properly in weeks? I expect I might tonight, though.

MrsGuider just called -- she's desperate because all of her Rainbow assistants are poorly and can't get to the meeting. So looks like BabyScout and I are doing Rainbows as well. Good thing I don't have Seniors this week or we'd be overrun by girls in uniform!

Now to figure out what to take for BabyScout to eat at the meeting since he'd normally have dinner during their meeting time....

Bring it on Mellors, that's what I say.

Wondering whether it would be discourteous to BoffinMum, as a relatively new denizen of the tea room, to elbow her roughly aside to get to the front of the queue for Mellors' massage table. It was Oxeye hogging it before ....

Well done Scout! You're really keeping your Promise this week.

Is toasted cheese wrapped up and eaten 1/2 hour later disgusting? I only have shredded cheese in the fridge at the moment and BabyScout struggles with shredded cheese sandwiches unless it's toasted/melted (so can't take just a cheese sandwich). MrsGuider knows BabyScout will sit at a table and have his dinner while the Rainbows are running riot.

I am making up for my sins, Techno!

I don't think you can MissJ. Are they both groups assigned to her name? I.e. is she the main moderator?

Scout you indeed are a scout! Is it horrible that I hope LCT doesn't want to do scouts? Or Beavers? Mostly because the name Beavers makes me snicker like a 12 year old?

I never did scouts. But I have a story:

My friend Maura, back in the States, was at a Brownie Meeting and they were to tell a story about their day. So Maura said 'well I had no lunch today because a dog peed on my lunch at the bus stop.' The leader said 'No, Maura, he didn't pee, he urinated.' Maura had no idea what urinated meant so she said 'No, he peed. I saw him do it!'

They went back and forth several times.

That night Maura's dad received a note (her mum died when she was quite young) saying 'We do not think Maura is scout material.'

Thanks Tee - I think so! Shall check!

at Tee's story. I joined Brownies when we moved the 'burbs and I never left. It's been good for me, though, and has helped me settle in to whatever new area I've moved to. I have lots of Girl Scout tee-shirts from home that I wear and my girls (and most of the adults) no longer get confused that I wear green as much as I wear blue.

MrScout was a Scout growing up and I used to help him with his unit (which he no longer does due to work). We don't want BabyScout to be a (UK) Scout so we're going to see if the BSA group at the (local-ish) US air base will accept him on the basis that he IS a US citizen.

What doesn't appeal to you about UK Scouts, Scout? (That was an odd sentence to type!)