Tea Room The 24th - San Francisco Painted Lady!

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Welcome to the 24th incarnation of the One-Child Tea Room. Not that you only have to have one! Just so long as you enjoy chat, tea, coffee, cake!!

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

Our ongoing voyage take us to one of San Francisco's Painted Ladies!

We've brought the Aga over, it's in the back in the cosy kitchen overlooking the back garden. The chintz sofa is in the front room, under the bow window! All of the pillows and duvets have come along as well!

What's that? The Priest Hole? It's just over there --> behind the bookcase!

Mellors is upstairs, preparing the bedrooms for naps and such.

The aspidistras are thriving as they overlook Nob Hill! The horses have found themselves stabled in the Garden, which is much larger than these places usually are in this city!

So come in and have a seat!

::tea hurries off to Powell Street to catch the Cable Car to Ghirardelli Square::

thanks everyone for the welcome, and the

Jacks - his birthday was last weekend so he is a very newly hatched 3-year old.

Tee - my boy will be in Belfast (well, Islandmagee to be precice) this time tomorrow - off with his dad to visit "flying granny" for the weekend. And I get uninterrupted sleep and the whole bed!

Hello Llanarth! Are you a Welsh Pony or Cob fan by any chance?

Just popped in to make sure my hay pile wasn't feeling lonely - Scout I'm glad you got something for the rib. They can be so painful if you have to be active (as with TS).

There is a large bucket of brandied hot chocolate for anyone who is in need of sustenance. And the usual sack of carrots....

Hi Maud! Pops trey of rocky road on table right. Now to work hugs to all
[do you think we scared Llan away?]

oxeye, a recipe that takes 10 mins sounds fab. Any chance you could share it please?

Brandied hot choc? Splendid!

Morning all. How are we?

Here, off to herd some 12 yr olds round RE workshops. What fun!

PS hi Llan!!!

Hi Donnki, yes, I used to have a Sec D mare, Llanarth Carys (out of Llanarth Meredith AP Braint).

Hi Llanarth! I am the Aussie contingent on this thread and also mum to a 3yo boy but he was 3 in December. I also rarely if ever drink tea or coffee so am with you on the hot chocolate as choice of

What is Rocky Road? [dim emoticon] - I only know it as an ice cream flavour

can I please just have a small boastful moment? miniThumb is taking to the stage tomorrow at lunchtime to perform with his tap class - they're all around 3 so it's going to be a bit of a shambles, I fear but they will all look so cute that no one is going to mind! I just hope it doesn't rain too much. Fingers crossed!

Awww, 3 year old tap dance will be totally cute !

Rocky road is marshmallows and biscuit pieces in choc. Its too nice to make as my waistline won't take it

ooooo, that does sound yummy!

I could have sworn I posted this morning. Am I senile at 42?!?!

Beautiful sunny day here in Belfast. LCT had a fab time running around the lawn at City Hall and climbing the steps over and over and over and over...until he tripped and fell on his face. Then it was time to move on.

I'll have some Rocky Road please. And at least part of the Euromillions! It's £90m!!!!

thumb, my niece started dance classes at about 2.5 and nothing was cuter than her shows at that age! Now she's nearly 11 and hoping to dance Clara in Nutcracker this year.

Tee you may well have posted and it just got lost in the ether - that has happened to me before now. Usually a beautifully crafted long post, as well, rather than my usual meanderings.

Congratulations to your niece - that's a big role! Who does she dance with, or is it her ballet school?

Maybe that's what happened thumb!

She dances with the Berkeley City Ballet, which her school is attached to. She hasn't gotten Clara yet but she has been Franz, who is the boy who steals and breaks the Nutcracker and the lead mouse in past years. I think she's still a bit young for Clara (I studied ballet for years) as I think Clara should be danced En Pointe, but her teacher may not agree with me!! She says she wants to be Clara because Clara sits on her bottom for the whole second act!

heh heh - that's not the attitude!
Yes, I believe 11 is too young for point work, I don't think I started it until I was 14 or 15 but I was absolutely shite at it cos my big toe is longer than my others so I was literally standing on one toe. I stopped ballet at 15 - I wasn't going any further, I'd reached my natural limit.

Well fingers crossed for her then, if not this year then maybe next.

Mistlechick does yoga rather than ballet. We'd have got him to do jazz dance - but it clashed with football (or was it karate?) after school.... He said he wanted to do ballet - but we thought yoga would suit him more - we said that he'd be nice and strong for picking the girls up like the men do - but more akin to a baby elephant than the graceful figures that you see cut by the men on the TV when you see ballet - and he found this hillarious and agreed that Yoga might be better.

Lovely and sunny here today - just hope that it stays fine tomorrow as I'll be singing in the BBC3 'Frankensteins wedding' production tomrorow night and it was absolutely freezing at the rehearsal on Wednesday evening. At least we get to wear accademic gowns over black - I'm wondering whether my long black coat would look too strange under one but the audience is meant to turn up looking like wedding guests - and undoubtedly the cast will be in 'proper' costumes..... [shivers]

Oh - and have had to arrange mc's first sleepover because of rehearsals and concerts - dh playing db elsewhere. Nothing like farming them off for the day!

Hi Llanarth - nice to meet you - a friend of mine had a lovely Welsh/arab cross - despite being a mare she had enough neck to look like a stallion when there was something to get breezy about - as well as pretending to be a welsh dragon in terms of flared nostrils!

oo mistle, get you, you're going to be singing on TV! Wow!
Hope it goes well, sounds like fun (well apart from any shivering that might go on)

I really must go to bed now...

Happy friday every one. cheers.

Hear me I gloat- I'm off to the pub soon.Tonight we shall be welcoming another mum to the friday night 2nd shift pub gang.

meanwhile
minor rant in the other place. if you have ideas for speedy i-dent of tricky kids... happy to read them.

I'm grumpy tonight so I'm just going to sit over here in the corner with my blanket and hot chocolate and ease-drop on everyone else's conversations.

Have some more hot chocolate Scout

I like Welsh cobs Llanarth - I've known a few with that prefix over the years. They have something about them, and can be great fun.

I have to go to work tomorrow (!) - it's Parents' Day (in contrast to Parents' evening).

So I had better go to bed and be focussed for the morrow. I have just been enjoying DL Sayers 'Busman's Honeymoon' I love the scene where they get the chimney 'swept'

Night all.

Ooops, I got lost last night and wandered on the old tea room thread! I have even posted on this one!

Anyway.......! Sorry not been about on here much

We got a letter yesterday about going on a Triple P parenting couse starting at the end of April

I have heard these are really good, but am a bit scared about going on it! I need to try and ensure I can get to go to as many sessions as possible and organise time off work

Morning everyone!

::Amber appears from the comfy upstairs bedroom, resplendent in a sparkly gold head scarf which seems a lot easier to care for than having hair ::

Scout, how are you feeling now?

PKM, I've not heard of that parenting course - interested to know what you think of it.

Mr T the family horse is half Welsh Cob, but we don't know which line.

::sets out the breakfast table for everyone and goes off to feed the tea room animals::

Morning all.

Don't know if anyone was following Edgar's thread about her son, but he died yesterday. I'm still reeling and cuddling LCT very close today.

Thanks for breakfast Amber and that scarf is very fetching.

Yes, just read it, and am devastated for her. My niece had a brain tumour removed aged 21mo, 3days after discovery - but she made a good recovery and I'm and so very very sad for Edgar. Obviously I haven't posted this on her thread - but it does bring it very close to home.

So very bloody sad and am in tears for them all.