Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

One-child families

Got questions about only having one child? Find the answers here.

Tea Room the 23rd - The Canadian Rockies

996 replies

Jacksmania · 11/02/2011 16:49

Welcome to the 23rd incarnation of the One-Child Tea Room. Not to be misleading - although its inmates inhabitants mostly have just one child, we also have mums of many (but no dads yet... hmmm...). Everyone is welcome.

The usual rules apply - no bunfighting. If you like that sort of thing, go elsewhere.
Other rules: bring Wine. Or [tea]. :o

We find ourselves in a lovely spacious log cabin in the Canadian Rockies. Enormous west-facing windows show a gorgeous view of the sunset over the mountains, and there are log and/or gas fireplaces in every room, even the priest hole (which is a Hiding Spot of Requirement for Those In Need) and the bathrooms. In the open-concept living room, we find the Aga gently simmering against the wall, the bar fully stocked, and the cappuccino bar prepared to dispense any hot beverage of your choice.

Fluffy duvets and colourful pillows abound on the deep, squashy couches and armchairs. Outside, we see a vista of deep snow, dotted here and there with deer and bunny tracks. The walking trails and access roads have been ploughed clear of snow by our able (and hunky) handyman, Mellors, who is also available for massages and facial treatments in the Log Cabin Spa.
There is a hot tub outside on the west-facing deck, with a mini-bar conveniently nearby.

There are no aspidistras in this log cabin, as the cold of the Rockies causes them to shrivel and die. However, the Naked Mohawk Babies have come along and are swarming along the rafters, and in the adjacent stable, the Tea Room horses, Earl and Lady Grey are available for snowy rides. The bison are frolicking in their snowy paddock, and I have no idea if the bishops followed the trail of breadcrumbs or not.

(For newcomers, the last paragraphs obv. makes no sense - just go with, all will be explained.)

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Scout19075 · 12/02/2011 22:55

Hello Secrete! Would you like Wine or Brew?

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 12/02/2011 23:00

Hi, Secrete! Nice to meet you. Would you like some of the house special - Twiglet Surprise - to go with the Wine or Brew?

AgenteSecrete · 12/02/2011 23:03

Hello Scout! A nice herbal Brew for me, thanks, am going easy on the Wine just now (thickening girth reasons mostly!). And not very good with caffeine either. Bit of a sensitive flower, really.

You're from the other side of the pond, is that right? I totally agree with what you were saying about the internet. My life would be very different indeed without it.

What's your tipple tonight?

AgenteSecrete · 12/02/2011 23:09

Hello Maud too! (I seem to have got the idea from the previous page that you're Techno under another name, is that right or did I just invent it?)

Would love some Twiglet Surprise! Not as much as MrSecret, tho, he is very partial indeed to a Twiglet or two. Working away from home tonight, expected back in the wee small hours.

thanks for the welcome ladies!

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 12/02/2011 23:14

Err, I'm an obsessive frequent name-changer and that's as much as I'm saying.

::taps side of nose::

AgenteSecrete · 12/02/2011 23:17

Aah. Well, obviously I know all about the need for discretion and secrecy and such like. Being in the line I'm in. Most people are fooled by my outward appearance of being a SAHM; little do they know.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 12/02/2011 23:21

What a very fetching trench coat and trilby you are wearing, Secrete!

AgenteSecrete · 12/02/2011 23:38
Grin

blown my cover

and on that note I really, really must get to bed. Look forward to joining you again soon, pip pip.

Scout19075 · 12/02/2011 23:55

Really must go to bed, too, but feel like tossing everything out of my house and starting over.... ARGH!

I think bed will win.

BoffinMum · 13/02/2011 00:02

...

Grin
Jacksmania · 13/02/2011 00:04

Welcome AgentSecrete, very nice to meet you, do stick around!

So, BoffinMum, it's just you and me. What shall we gossip talk about?

Wine?

OP posts:
Scout19075 · 13/02/2011 00:07

(How was JB's par-tay?)

BoffinMum · 13/02/2011 00:11

Actually my drugs have juts kicked in so I was going to nod off actually. Had injections into my spine yesterday and have been feeling slightly like I have been in a fight all day today.

BoffinMum · 13/02/2011 00:11
Wine
BoffinMum · 13/02/2011 00:12

Hospital was very nice this time, got a good room and the food was excellent. Cosy bed with a duvet on it. TV actually worked.

BoffinMum · 13/02/2011 00:13

Have you drowned or are you struck dumb by Mellor's gorgeousness?

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 13/02/2011 00:17

Hi BoffinMum. I'm still here but preparing to teeter off to bed. How's life in the Proper Intellectual Tea Room?

BoffinMum · 13/02/2011 00:18

Equally pissed

BoffinMum · 13/02/2011 00:18

We're all a bit worried about research excellence protocols cos they are fairly rubbish

BoffinMum · 13/02/2011 00:19

Gott go to bed - knakcered - night night

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 13/02/2011 00:25

::waves::

Jacksmania · 13/02/2011 00:37

Was it something I said? Blush

I was just busy glugging some wine in RL for a moment... sorry to have missed you. Needles in the spine sound, um.... well, awful, actually.

OP posts:
oxeye · 13/02/2011 00:44

::plop::
oxeye gets in the tub
I saw Mellors running naked through the snow. I think it was the threat to chop his wood Hmm
welcome Secrete
Boffin. I have missed news of spinal woes. Sounds hideous. Is this regular or one off?

Jm how was the party? I can barely see you through the forest of Aspidestras xxx

Jacksmania · 13/02/2011 01:14

JB's party was really fun. And very easy. A friend of mine and I combined the boys' parties - hers is exactly one year older than JB and they're playmates. We went to an indoor play place, with tubes and slides and obstacles (like those Habitrail hamster tubes but for humans :o), they supplied the food and drinks, all we had to bring was birthday cake. The little ones ran themselves stupid and the grown-ups stood, watched and were :o at the thought of tired children later. JB is just toast, it's 5:12 pm and he's so tired, his eyes are heavy and I think he'll be out by 7 pm unless, God forbid, he gets his second wind.

His actual birthday is tomorrow, and we're going to another party in the morning! Tomorrow he'll have to have a nap because we're having MIL over for a birthday dinner and if he doesn't nap, he'll just crash by this time.

BTW, there are no aspidistras. They've all died. :)

OP posts:
Jacksmania · 13/02/2011 04:07

CMOT, just listened to that song - PMSL!!!!!! :o

OP posts:
Swipe left for the next trending thread