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::

very scary CMOT, hope she is OK

I can upload a photo to my album on here if I can remember how of what I knitted recently

UniS, hope the funeral goes ok and everyone behaves?
CMOT, eek also re situation there...

I can only sleep under two duvets or equivalent weight, which is a big of a challenge in summer. Need the sensory input.

How scary CMOT. I hope she's okay.

Unis I also hope the funereal goes okay.

I sleep with a duvet and a blanket.

For the record, this season's sack dresses look like a sack when no matter who is wearing them. Especially me!

CMOT, have you found out what was going on with your mother??

I must now officially be a grown up - I own a child with chicken pox!

I too need two duvets to feel properly covered. In summer, if it's very hot, I throw caution to the winds and sleep under only one duvet.

We had an exciting Brownie outing today and Girl -who is poorly at the moment with an undiagnosed lurgy - is now snoring on the sofa.

Have just phoned them and she is OK, but a little more vague than usual. Dad is very shaken by it all. Paramedics said the gp would be informed and they would see her on Monday.

I too like a really heavy duvet - but hate blankets. Can't sleep with nothing over me

Oh dear, Cmot. My immediate and not very appropriate response is to offer .

Oh, that sounds entirely appropriate to me

Poor CMOT and parents.

I think we need an emoticon so we can pass some.

We're at inlaws for S'siL birthday. ToddlerScout really does love the cats here! And with one of them it's a Mutal Admiration Society of ToddlerScout and Cat. It's so sweet to watch. I think we need one.

Another crappy night's sleep. I'm sure it's a phase/cycle meds cause insomnia, tiredness and thirst (which makes me drink so therefore I use the loo a lot three times in four hours last night). ARGH! More than half way done though so hopefully things will be back to normal sooner rather than later.

So what's the dosage, Cmot? or ?

Looks like I may be having a MrScoutFree weekend coming up....

Meant to add: Oh the possibilities.

Though upon reflection, how is any different to my normal, day-to-day, weekday life?

Hope wriggle is ok. Cmot how scarey ....
Unis cake sounds great. Hope funeral ok
I like just a duvet can sleep with nothng on if hot but prefer even just sheet
had lovely day in park with oxboys best friend but sadly he's moving to America

::clasps everyone to her well-upholstered bosom::

Scout - I like taking Girl on day trips when Bloke isn't around at the weekend.

Oxeye - Bummer about OxBoy's friend moving away but it's a fickle age and he'll have a new best friend in days.

, anyone?

Thanks for wine
I know Oxboy will be fine. In some ways that's part of the sadness. They could have been close buddies from birth. Now however they'll drift off and not even really remmber each other
heh ho. Thanks for hug

I think it's pretty rare for someone to find a soulmate at birth and hang onto them for life. It was hard enough when we were little, and people's lives seem so much more mobile now. On the other hand, there is e-mail and Facebook (although these are possibly of limited use at OxBoy's age).

I totally underestimated the awfulness of a night with a very spotty itchy child who does not do stiff upper lips and stoic resignaion.

Oxeye, all Wriggle's present friends have been from birth. I di hope that some will be friends for the rest of her life (also because that should mean that their mums will be friends for the rest of my life).

I was thinking about your comment about the CofE as shaping the pattern of the year and that is exactly why I (and probably most others) are quite attached to it. Don't think that is quite how the church sees it though. And I personally need some spirituality and belief from somewhere too.

Poor wriggle :(

I'm another one who needs a duvet pressing down on me!

Poor Wriggle - do try (ha!) to stop her picking at the spots. I failed miserably with Girl.

I hope that Girl will hang onto some friends from early childhood, but as another one has just emigrated I realise the odds are against it. Still, e-mail is a wonderful thing. In some ways, I think life is about acquiring new friends as one goes along and am always a bit baffled by people who haven't made a new friend since they were at school.

I had one friend at school for five years, then two friends, and now I have 61 who are in regular contact with me and want to meet up etc (!) which goes to show that even from very dodgy starts we can end up ok.

Trying to work out who's who from the 61 friends is surprisingly difficult sometimes though .

Oddly, a lot of people are actually ok with a small Amber approaching them to say "will you be my friend?", including one or two surprised fairly senior figures in public life etc over the years . I was fairly surprised too, because I didn't realise who they were at the time but they're nice friends anyway.

Anyone for afternoon tea?

- lovely! Just having a sit down to watch Dumbo and take our minds off spots.

Shall we have toasted hot cross buns (yes I know it's too early), slices of seed cake, scones and maybe a cherry cake? Sounds very Sunday-afternoonish to me.

Just finished a lovely lunch of spinach soup and a salad made with wild garlic from the side of the road and chives from the garden. Feeling very green (in a good way).

Oh yes please . Might go bake a Victoria Sponge in a min...between watching the rugby and catching up online...
UnSerp, have you had chicken pox? DS gave it to me and to dh!

Happy Sunday afternoon everyone!

My life is messed up. US has changed their clocks 2 weeks before us! Don't they know I have Skype calls scheduled?!?!

Cake?