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::

Merci, Maud.

And thanks for the back story on George the other day.

In the interests of less squabbling between you and Oxeye, what about a cardboard cut out of le grand to accompany him? As long as Gérard doesn't try to sing, that is. French men and rock and roll.... what can you say?

Also wondered if you remembered gem, possibly my favourite French and Saunders sketch ever. Not that I can really remember any of the others, so not sure if that counts. Oh yes, Witless Silence, I liked that too.

UniS - B* Old Vic - of course!! Doh!

Hope I didn't bore you with the George back story, but wondered if Doctor Ross's sudden appearance needed some further exposition! It is certainly true that le divin Gérard has it all (a mon avis). I love his films because he has such beautiful diction that I can follow what he's saying without subtitles. I hadn't heard that song before, it is rather magnificent in its awfulness. Rather like the Johnny Hallyday boxset we bought in France. My colloquial French isn't good enough for all the lyrics, so I tried Google translate, which gives the literal cockroach for cafard, so I'm no better off!

::Pogoes around the room with Gérard::

Tea, (roughly) when in May is Milk's birthday? Dresses look as if they should be easy to make but am sure I would never get round to it/manage it. Luckily we have a wonderful second-hand children's clothes shop in the next town, with lots of little French numbers. Is Milk another of these tea-room children wearing clothes several years older than their chronological age or is she tiny like Wriggle, who wears '4 ans' in France but '24-36 months' in England?

Do boys quite heavily outnumber girls in the tea room? Not an adverse comment; one of Wriggle's best friends is male, who has apparently been giving her lessons in how to wee standing up.

Hmm. Let's do a census. Shout out if I'm wrong or have forgotten anyone which, in my current state, is quite likely.

Tea room boys:

Boy Fine Lad SecretBoy Mistlechick CmotTiddler Oxboy Jack MiniThumb ToddlerScout Kittenito O YoungDonki Mary'sDS LowercaseTee

Tea room girls

Wriggle Milk Girl Gatita Mary'sDD

Wow! I'd always known that the girls were outnumbered, but wow!

pkn has teen girl.

Ah yes. I had a nagging feeling I had missed someone. So sorry PKM.

I think I have mentioned before when Milk was in her school play last June I completely shocked and embarassed myself because as soon as her class came on and started doing their dance I started really really sobbing - like snot and gaspy noises and everything. Oh how I laughed at parents who did this when I was teaching!!!

unserp - 14th so when is wriggles then....????

Yes - there are more boys than girls in the tearoom and I always forget how old all the children are. Primarily because they keep growing up...

Have we worked out who will be needing the t-shirt next?

:( Thumb . I would give you a hug - but my hooves are rather hard, so it woudn't be a comfortable thing.

Good luck for tomorrow Amber . I will be thinking of you. I am sorry to hear that the trusty Flora is broken. I have a real soft spot for 'proper' Landys...

Life feels very strange this week. The YD broke up from school on Friday. My school doesn't break up until this Friday, so we have shipped him off to MIL for the week. The house is very quiet. When I tidy something up it stays tidy. It just feels wrong.

Back to the grindstone now. GCSEs soon, so I am busy writing model answers for old exam questions....

Tea - the YD not only keeps growing up, he does it when I am not looking and without permission!

::Passes Donki a large crunchy carrot::

That sounds tricky logistically, although nice for YD getting some intensive grandparent time. Will YD go back to school before you do, too?

Hugs to thumb and amber, struggle to keep up with everyone's details on here at times so bear with me!

My daughter is off to the docs tomorrow for the results so we shall see what that brings! I sometimes think I am just making things bigger than they are with the crap way I deal with things, I am a stubborn stubborn scorpio and never like her to win! I know I am going to have to go on a huge learning curve

She finally got her option results yesterday, got all her first choices! YAY! So she is doing German, graphics and GSCE German. Just realised I may have already mentioned that on here, I have lost track, was telling and texting loads of people yesterday!

Thankyou Maud

We both get two weeks, so after a week of shared holiday I will get 4 days at home whilst YD is at school (YD gets Good Friday and Easter Monday off) to tidy up and try and tame the Donki Stable. 'Tis a tip at the moment.....

I regularly ask TS who gave him permission to grow up and get big. He takes no notice of me when I ask. Usually I get cuddled.

Chateau Maud is beyond a tip at the moment as I have spent all my time at home gardening. We have someone coming tomorrow to fix the radiators and can barely navigate in some rooms because of all the tut assemblage of interesting and useful objects. Oh the shame.

The Scout Hut needs an overhaul, too. I keep trying but days where I really get going Toddler is clingy or has an abbreviated nap (like today).

Anyone have any idea of the weather forecast for tomorrow?

at The Scout Hut. Dunno about tomorrow's weather - more of today's would be good!

I hope it's like today, too. Toddler spent time in the backyard with me while I hung laundry he investigated a bug and wasn't too sure about it and spent ages walking up and down our sidewalk between our neighbor's house and our driveway. Oh, and playing with the neighbor's cat. He is a friendly cat and the neighbor is glad to hear/see that cat and Toddler get on.

Did anyone listen to the Mothers and Sons piece on Radio 4 and is it worth going to the iPlayer to listen? I heard a clip of it over the weekend and thought it might be good but didn't get to tune in on Sunday.

No, but I'm intending to get it as a podcast. All this sons business is a foreign country to me!

Just as daughters are to me. Though, to be fair, there's not much gender difference when they're small.

Though some lady, walking up my road, asked me today if TS was a boy or a girl. He was wearing olive green trousers with cars and trucks on them and a white/orange/olive green shirt, also with cars on it (matching set). People rarely ever asked boy/girl, even when he was new -- he always looked like a boy. She also asked me how old he was and proceeded to tell me how big he was. Yes, I know, thank you. [eye roll] She also kept touching his cheek and, to his credit, he didn't do anything other than give her a stare and look like "who are you and why are you in my space?"

I thought strangers-touching-my-child would stop once he was walking.

Goodness, there is a heavy preponderance of boys in the tearoom!

Thank you for all hugs, gratefully received - even hoofy ones. :)

Have also bunged in my 2c worth on the dancing thread - hope it does some good. Parental attitudes are more problematic than anything else, I think!

Tea - I got rather throat-lumpy and drippy eyed while videoing miniT doing his dancing thang on the stage at the Newcastle Show a couple of weekends ago - bursting with pride though!

Mistle - happy birthday to MC! Hope you all have a good day. :)

UniS - PM me or see me on t'other place if you need my address for t-shirt, if no worthier taker is to be found.

The Thumbcave is looking not-too-bad at the mo; it's cooling down so I can do stuff without breaking out in a muck sweat within seconds, so the veg patch has been dug over and de-anted and winter veg put in; just got to work on the bulbs and a few other plants for winter colour.

Busy day today - last playgroup before Easter, then back to the radiology place to collect scans and report, then take miniT to the hairdressers for haircut so he can see out from under his fringe again, then dancing - whew! I'll be in mucho need of a by then.

Scout, TS may have reminded her of her own DC or other family. I think it's been a while since anyone wanted to touch miniThumb but it was still happening while he was in his 2nd year, iirc. I'm just grateful no one ever went in for the cheek pinch - so bloody painful!

Morning all.

Was out working last night so trying to catch up. Not doing a very good job!

Scout people still try to touch LCT while he's in his pram, never mind tootling down the street! 'Oooh, it's a child, it has no personal space.' The looks he gives them are priceless!

I was, as I said, working last night shooting video. A person there looked exactly like John Torode of Masterchef. Even had his mannerism. It was really really freaky.

Boys definitely should do ballet. It builds strength, confidence and flexibility. I shall go over to that thread in a minute and say so.

::tee lights the tea lights under the warmers for the full Irish breakfast Mellors is preparing::

I really need some grease today to help get through my video editing!!!