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.

Have just heard from Amber. It IS breast cancer, but early stages and its treatable. She asked me to let you know

Oh arse and bollocks and sorry for swearing - poor Amber! Thank goodness it's early and treatable but still must be terrifying for her.
Pass on our best wishes and lots of love and Haynes manuals to her please Mary...

Oh no, poor Amber!

I am so sorry to hear that but so glad they caught it early. Pass on my good wishes as well.

Yup, it is BC, but weirdly it's not terrifying. I did all my panicking in advance, as it gets it over with.
As you can see, my sense of humour is undiminished.

What a morning! Poor dh has been a tower of strength, but me being bunged head first into an MRI scanner (which I hate) only half hour after getting the news is Not My Idea of Fun. We went to the pub afterwards for a nosh-up, as you do (well, ok, as we do!). Six months of the usual stuff to cure it, but it should be OK unless they do something totally stupid.

Who's for a large drink and a slice of cake?

Amber so glad you're being so positive! My aunt is a 25 year breast cancer survivor so it can be done! I would have gone to the pub as well.

Slice of cake sounds loverly!

yup, I know plenty of people who've had it and are still here and smiling. Thank goodness I didn't wait until the government-approved Age 50 tests, etc? That would have been three years away. Get 'em checked, girls.

((((((HUGS)))))) to Amber. And lots of JM-type swearing at the news, too.

Amber, my grandmother had it when she was in her 50s, back in the 50s, when medicine was not as it is now, and she survived to a very old and cantankerous age. Whether it might have been better for her family if her reign of terror had ended earlier ...

Tea, Wriggle spent part of an icy morning in the nice warm kitchen working on a story for Milk. We did the pictures together - for such an important work she didn't want to 'do the lines because mine aren't really beautiful'. (I would argue with that; her drawings have much more character.) Anyway, I will send the story and Milk can probably read it herself. I'm afraid it is a bit lacking in dramatic tension!

(I LOVE how the tea room minis send each other letters/parcels. And here's me, excited that BabyScout did his first stand up at an easel painting with paintpots and everything.)

UnSerpent re your grandmother and her reign of terror. If I start behaving in some shouty way, do have me shot, won't you?

JM, feel free to do a bit of swearing. I believe dh did. Probably FineLad will soon when I tell him (he's at school at the mo).

I think swearing is completely appropriate!

Huh, BabyScout is younger than LCT and he's never even used crayons. I probably get him some...

I could do the late American comedian George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say On TV"... even thought about it, but now I'm embarrassed .
JB is forcing us to clean up our vocabulary so I'm trying very hard not to even think sweary words.

(The funny thing is that George Carlin's Seven Words are now rampant on TV :o - but then he did first come up with it in the 80's.

I'd just like to add that, having been a teenager in the 80's, I went out of my way to memorize GC's 7 Words so I could say them rapid-fire and with complete confidence, thus maximising the shock value :o

Tee, BabyScout has Crayola Jumbos. He also has some of the triangle ones, but I haven't given him those yet. He seems to enjoy drawing and painting (we also have sidewalk chalk to draw with since normal chalk is too thin). I'm hoping by letting him do it and showing him that we sit at the table to do it (and only at the table) it might ward off the "crayons are forbidden, let's color the walls" bit. We shall see if it works! The painting at the easel was done at the Children's Center/Sure Start we go to for "Messy Play" (that's the name of the group).

JM, I do "creative swearing" - things like "Son of a motherless goat!" and "Silly son of a sea-serpeant!" I sprained four of my fingers while in charge of 24 Brownies at camp and they didn't even know because I came out with stuff like that instead of what I really wanted to shout.

Can someone convince me that I really do want to go to the Guiders meal tomorrow and that it will be fine?

Amber, we will give you fair warning before having you shot. However, my grandmother was manipulative and evil. In Malaya they called her 'The Tarantula' and in Canada 'The Gadfly'. I well remember her heart attacks every Christmas Day.

yoga or committee meeting... which to chose.

That bad, Serpent. Ouch.

Don't worry, amber, you're allowed to be a bit shouty.

Oh, and I don't find it odd that you went to the pub for food after the news. I did something similar when 35+ weeks pregnant with BabyScout and found out about my blood disorder and that they would induce me at 38 weeks or my body would end up killing unborn BabyScout. I went from the hospital to ante-natal class where MrScout was meeting me then we went for pizza because, by golly, BabyScout wanted a pizza!

Did we ever figure out if bread machines go through electricity like mad? I'd quite like one, too, I think as I'm fancying making my own pizzas (and I do love fresh crusty bread)....

Yoga!

For Amber, because sunflowers always cheer me up and I hope they'll make you smile too.

I found this answer to the breadmaker question on Money Supermarket.com. So it's really like a slow cooker, really just pennies to run.

I also vote yoga!

Very pretty Tech.

Cheers, Tee! I think I might ask MrScout to help BabyScout pick one out for Mothering Sunday (or US Mother's Day, I'm not picky ) since I don't really want to wait until my birthday or Christmas. I sound old and mothery, don't I?

I'm sure that's a good plan, Scout, as you'll be able to make delicious crusty bread for pennies.

Oh, and yoga!

BabyScout likes bread, too. And soon he's going to start "helping" Mommy bake (cookies & cakes) so he can make pizzas, too.

Yes, going to drop not-so-subtle hints to MrScout....

Because it's cute but so not worth USD50.00 plus tax

I have a Very Annoying line manager.