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::

Oh good. I imagine it will a very impressive hightide though.

Apparently only about 7" higher than normal! So not that impressive, really.

Phew for your brother, Tee!

Cat - good luck to all of yours XXX

phew for Tea room families seemingly having missed teh Tsunami.

Yes please to breakfast if its still on offer. or just a bacon buttie will do.

Phew for safe families!

Could someone please explain to ToddlerScout that going to sleep is a lot easier and nicer than screaming in protest about it?

ToddlerScout Going to bed is much easier and nicer than screaming about it.

(HTH)

Thanks.

He struggled tonight -- first time in ages. He was clearly shattered though. I'm wondering if he's gearing up for a spurt cuz he's woken up the last few nights ravenous and then struggling today, clearly tired but still seeming to look for something.

Hello all, not been on for ages, sorry, busy knitting as always and dealing with garbage from my daughter!!

PKM - could you point me in the direction of a website which has nice knitting patterns. My mad mother is going on about needing to knit me something, and I'd like to let her. Would like a nice tunicy thing

I went to Cambridge today - a lovely drive in the sun. I thought of the east anglian contingent

Would anyone like a mini cupcake ?

Scout The YD is awful when he is about to grow. Then when the spurt actually starts, he sleeps and sleeps. (And I have real trouble getting him up in time for school...)

I must say, the new Tea Room is very colourful - and it is much warmer in the garden than the last abode!

Now, where can my hay pile go?

(You do realise that I have had to evade US customs, since they were tiresomely insisting on a quarantine period...)

Glad you made it, Donki!

Maybe I passed you on the road on my way around the outskirts of Cambs today.

ToddlerScout has done well on the sleeping front the last few days including a 4.5 hour nap Wednesday afternoon and he was ready for bed two hours later.

Did we ever establish if the old wives' tale about boys height is to measure them on their second birthday or their third? At 16 months TS's HUGE and I'm curious.

Am shattered and not sleeping again. Anyone have any pill-free recommendations for sleeping (and baring in mind a lot of smells/strong oders give me migraines)? Initial sleep is easy to get but then I'm not staying asleep and/or sleeping well.

CMOTdibbler, I don't often use the internet for patterns, tend to get them from proper patterns and magazines

I have recently joined Ravelry and there are loads of free patterns on there, some I have added to my queue to do. What sort of tunic? I have not long finished doing myself a rather fetching one!

:: nabs a cupcake....ta!

Scout...hot chocolate, a proper milky one? Or a lettuce sandwich is supposed to work. Have tried all sorts with my daughter, she often takes ages to get to sleep. She also has some balm, it isn't too strong smelling, can't remember what it is called

Scout - make sure you are completely in the dark. No lights at all, not even from digital clocks or anything. Helps your pineal gland shut down. Get some tart cherry juice - it contains melatonin which helps regulate your pineal gland so that you go to sleep. Or get your mum to post you some melatonin from the States.

read this and see if it helps. Failing that, get a nice fat text book, preferably of something like biochemistry or organic chemistry, that should do the job (always worked on me in about 5 minutes, any time of day )

You could try Valerina, which is a much nicer option than burning valerian essential oil (effective but stenchy). Lavender oil is supposed to help with sleep too but is quite likely to bring on a migraine in you if you are sensitive to that.

Hope something helps :)

Candida - nice new name!

I have slept way better after getting a lightbox and using it 15 mins a day.

Morning all...hope your weekends are splendid

Morning Amber - hope you have a good one too!

CMot - I've found some good patterns on Ravelry too - and you can choose a sort by free patterns option which I find useful.

Scout - I'm on Quiet Life at the mo - stressed and resultant not sleeping well - and its definitely helping - available from eg Boots.

Naughty Scout, allowing ToddlerScout to play with MrScout's (built) Technic Truck. He's not destroying it, just more facinated by the wheels and pushing it along and making the wheels turn so the truck turns.

I like a HEAVY blanket for sleeping. DH ( and I) think I fidget less under a heavy blanket than under just duvet. Mind you teh fidgeting is more of a problem for DH, I'm asleep when I'm doing it.

In Laws here today, working tomorrow, so probadly back in teh tea room monday breifly, before heading up country for funeral on Tuesday morning and memorial service - teh more cheerfull bit- in afternoon. My family do a very brief service at crem then a proper remembrance and reminiscing service elsewhere followed by tea and cake.

Boy currently out on his new bike with grandparents, no idea where they have got to, DH has gone looking for them. dinner will be ready in 15 mins, hope they all appear back again in time.

Would any one like a slice of birthday cake?? its vanilla with dark choc on top, some mini cricket players and little cyclist and candles.

quick before teeny tiny footprints are left across it.

Thank you for the cake UniS

I was looking for a website that sold real patterns, rather than download as mum needs the familiarity. A lightweight, either boat neck or cowl, a bit shaped - otherwise no paarticular wishes.

I had one of those heart stopping phonecalls earlier - my parents number on my mobile (this means something BAD). Dad had called 999 as mum was 'in a coma' - totally unresponsive apparently. Fortunatly she came to, and they couldn't find anything immediatly wrong so have left her at home. At times like this I wish I lived round the corner..

DS is having a nap after an exciting morning riding - lovely !

oh CMOTD - that is scary! Glad she is apparently ok now though.

UniS - in my absence I must have missed who your funeral is for - condolences anyway. Hope you have appropriate weather for it.
Birthday cake, how lovely!

I like a blanket too - I need to feel the weight of the bedclothes on me, a duvet by itself just doesn't cut it. And actually the blanket protects me from overheating - that extra layer between me and the duvet stops it reflecting too much heat.