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::

Donki, that sounds like an interesting challenge !

Arm/hand no better Oxeye - back to see the Man on the 7th, so will see what he says.

Am in the north of Denmark today, and the sea looks beautiful.

DS asked for a brother/sister again on Monday. I wonder why this comes up ? But when I pointed out that if he had one he wouldn't be able to spend so much time with LoveOfHisLife he changed his mind

Blimey, that's a lot to catch up on!

Yes, SEN pupils will love metaphor things. I wish someone had taught me about them for a start.

Donki, great fun teaching overpopulation issues to such a group - I love a challenge

CMOT, arrgh re hand, fingers crossed for the 7th.

Love the Robert Asprin books - such a shame he's no longer with us.

Eek re ill children and bizarre Mexican queuing systems at hospital and people here with colds and otherwise not feeling v well.

::puts out just the right breakfasts and juices to help heal/enliven those in need::

Looks like TS is on the mend. He's not 100% but I'm not as worried/concerned as I was yesterday. He's having a nap now and he dropped morning naps weeks ago so I know he's not completely right.

CMOT, ooooohhhh, Denmark! You do get to travel! I'd love to go to Scandanavia.

How are you feeling amber, Mary and Maud?

This morning TS was demonstrating how to use the thermometer -- take it out, look at the screen, turn it on, look at the screen, put it in his ear, take it out, look at the screen, give it to Mommy. Over and over and over. It did make me giggle.

morning all. I SHOULD be digging teh spud bed... but I'm here. oops. REALLY must go and get on with things. May I borrow mellors to help?

Any one for fresh squeezed Orange juice and cream cheese bagels?

Can I plead the fifth on how I'm feeling?

Glad TS is on the mend...phew...

How do you make fresh squeezed orange juice bagels?

(I have been using skype quite a bit recently and really miss the [tongue] as its a bit more 'out there' than just but there we go!)

missing all the nice weather from within the office.

Parent's evening today - surprise, surprise its a week that Dh is elsewhere so I'm going alone again. Am steeling myself to sit quietly and see what they have to say rather than jump in immeidately as is my wont. But I know that none of the things that we discussed at the beginning of the year have been tried out to help to improve things.

Ds has learned his lines for a play they're doing - about recycling. One of his lines is 'we put paper in here, compost in here and glass in here...' I have sent him off to school to ask why they're putting compost in there as you normally get compost out and put kitchen waste and lawn clippings in..... He has also gone to school with the intention of using the word efficient or inefficient (or efficiently etc) - I said he needed to be efficient and we discussed what it meant (ie he was normally very inefficient in the mornings as he did lots of things that he didn't need to do which wasted time) so he's gone in determined to incorporate it into the day in someway

Afternoon all.

God or whomever save me from clients who know nothing and don't know they know nothing!!

I would love a freeze squeezed orange cream cheese bagel!

Glad everyone seems to be on the mend.

I really should get on with baking cakes...

Keep you the resting Amber. Sorry to hear that you are doing well today.
Hello to Mistethrush!
Good to hear that ToddlerS is on the mend, Gatita does similar games with our themometer.
And that's about all I got. I have no inspiration at all.

Hello everyone. ::sniff, cough::

I've just had a lovely time potting up some mail order plants which arrived yesterday. I have never heard of this author about whom you're enthusing, but am guiltily aware that I have book group tomorrow and haven't even located the book, far less read it. Oh well.

Amber - Have a (non-infectious) hug, a cuppa, a collector's edition of Land Rover Gearboxes and Newt Breeders Weekly and Mellors to act as your factotum for the evening (one he's finished with UniS' veg plot).

Oh my goodness, I read The Dark is Rising years ago, in German - that was before we emigrated to Canada so I would have been between 10 and 12. Thought of it a year or so ago, and had to Google some of the characters to find what it was called in English. Re-read several of them and enjoyed them hugely. It was strange to read them in English and feel a faint echo of reading them in German in my head :)

I started a thread about my extremely odd phone conversation with a client earlier - feel free to come and . You couldn't make this stuff up!

I've never had a factotum before - how exciting! And Newt Breeders Weekly is just marvellous .

::sets off with a torch to examine her gearbox::

Been to a garden centre with my sister, who has been a total star today and even cooked dh and me a lovely meal this evening. Feeling a lot brighter. Even walked the dog.

Two nights in a row MrTee is watching stupid movies. He loves them. I roll my eyes so hard they hurt. Of course, today is his birthday, so I'm indulging him.

Amber glad you're feeling more chipper.

When do I get a factotum? ::pout::

This is really rather fine here
I hope it might be of interest to Amber (and CMOT)

WOW, groovey and far out video. I feel more chilled just for watching it.

in RL however , I hurt. Shoulder pain gone, by neck pain and back pain has appeared i place... oh joy. Still not a murmer from Physio, my referral went in 2 weeks ago. I may give up and phone osteopath tomorrow. prepared to part with cash to try and sort this out .

ttfb

It is indeed groovy and far out, man.

Ugh about the pain, UniS. I think I may book myself a proper massage for next week, as I am feeling very old and creaky at the moment.

Good night all!

You're not in the least old, Maud. Or if you are, that makes two of us.

::hops onto the massage table in the hope that Mellors can work his magic on her lower back::

well, physio must have been reading this thread!!! they phoned at 7.45 this morning to offer me an appointment at 8am next Thursday. As neck pain has subsided over night I shall see if can get through to then. Suspect neck pain was after much digging of spud bed. will do something different today.

But first

mellors. I require a massage.

Woudl you like to try this morning breakfast offering? pop tart al la kedgeree.

Parents evening was a bit better than previous thank goodness.... At least I felt as though they'd met my son this time which is an improvement on last time. They did say he was getting left behind in writing. Mind you, I don't blame him - sometimes he wrote beautifully -when he was interested in the subject and wanted to tell about it (eg what he did at half term / at Christmas etc) however, when it comes to retelling stories he clearly has absolutely no interest at all, and to be fair, I also find it a complete turn-off.... I shall have to work on a way we (Mc and !) can plot together to make it more interesting for him so that he actually settles down to write something. Apparently the fact that quite a number of the class have peculiar pencil grips (according to them) is nothing to worry about . still can't believe that they're concerned about his comprehension of the stories he's reading - they clearly don't ask him what happened in the story - or what that sentence means - they pick out one word that he might not be totally familiar with and ask what it means out of context. However, at least we appear to be making some progress generally.....

Amber - when walking the dog make sure you take lots of opportunities to sit in the sun - and don't try to do TOO much!

Me? Do too much?? You must be thinking of someone else

Never had pop tart a la kedgeree before - very interesting. with it?

UniS, digging of spud beds would seem to be a clue to the presence of a dodgy neck, yes. No strong men who feel like wielding a sharpened spade, I assume? Here, loads of seeds to put out, including all the veg bed ones. Had a good sort-out of old seed stock yesterday but that still leaves about 20 different things to go in pots/propagators/beds etc. Should keep me busy. Bought a nice garden stool so I can sit down to do it and enjoy the sun.

Strong bloke does sawing up of logs ( by hand saw) and mowing of lawn ( petrol push mower) and pruning of roses and other ornamentals ( also apple tree) I do the growing of veg and fruit as that my thing along with compost heaps and chipping of pruning ( electric chipper). I wanted a bigger spud bed, so I've got to dig it. I also build log stores... mainly because bloke dislikes using power tools while I don't mind.

Today I have been re-roofing the new log store, replacing tarpaulin with corrugated perspex.
Also lunch duty at school.

Off to drill holes and screw it al together now, did teh difficult cutting to size stuff this morning.

How many spuds are you growing? I'm tempted by the spud buckets that allow me to just bung them in a huge pot and see what happens. But that isn't much of an answer for industrial quantities, tis true.

Scout, drat and double drat. Your body is definitely burning off everything you're putting in, by the sound of it. Opposite problem here, not that this is any consolation to you...

Protein bars on the way Scout.
Going back to Bellingham tomorrow, want me to buy another load and send them right off?