Tearoom 25 - Benvenute a Venezia!

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YOu find us this time in a glorious palazzo in Venice, near to St. Mark's square, and on the water. With gondolas and vaporetti in abundance to transport us around to the various sights etc.

The palazzo itself of course has marble floors and fabulous murano chandeliers but aside of that we have the usual distressed chintz comfy sofas, assorted animals, bishops in their corner, priesthole for emergencies and a single solitary aspidistra in a bomb-proof glass cage to protect it from the ravages of a certain Canadian.

All are welcome - drop by for a cuppa, a glass of something stronger and a chat and relax in the safe and kind surroundings here.

Cin cin!

He's turned up. Phew.

Where was he Amber?

DD was upset re: Elizabeth Sladen, she loved Sarah Jane Adventures

What was his feeble excuse, amber?

re Elisabeth Sladen, definitely - she was the same age as my Mum when she died of cancer as well. :(
E. Sladen looked a lot better for her age though... (poor Mum!)

Amber I was just going to offer you a comforting carrot or two, and a haynes manual on the Space Shuttle to take your mind of things. I will leave them in the corner for another occasion....

Belated Happy Birthday wishes to Serpent

Friendly Donki type greetings to all the people I haven't previously met. And Carrots. Mustn't forget the carrots. Oh and galvanised buckets of tea.

PKM We too are mourning the death of Elisabeth Sladen. We were just trying to get the YD to watch the Sarah Jane Adventures as a precursor to Dr. Who. (He still says it's too scary)

Any Tea Room -inmates- habituees interested in the AV referendum?
this might amuse you....

The Author is also a Dr. Who fan here

Ooops! the last link is about Elisabeth Sladen.

And one day I will get the hang of strikeout

::passes down a large and just the right sort of soup du Venice to LLS::

Anything you can share?

Hope everything's okay.

Where was FineLad, amber?

Forgive me, Tea Room inmates, for not only am I wearing my judgypants this morning but they are so far up my bum I have a wedgie. (Note to self, really must move out of this chavtastic town as soon as possible!)

FineLad was round a friend's house (female)

Scout, are your judgypants being used for anything in particular??

oo amber!

Lapin, are you all right? can we help?

Scout - c'mon, if you haven't already done so by the time this posts, please spill re judgypants!

It's stupid, really. Was on railway path on way home after good, long outting with Toddler (run off energy, enjoy the weather, soak up some Vit D per doctor's instruction). Ran into a girl and her son (16 months) that I "know" from various groups around. She's one who I've always thought "chavtastic" and "oh poor Toddler" (judging who/how his peers will be based on parents). Yes, I know, judgy of me anyway. But she wanted to stop for a chat (keeping in mind we never chat at gropus). I thought I would be social and nice, especially since I do get the impression she struggles a bit and needs a lot of validation and, frankly, I didn't want to be rude (nearly six years here and I still don't want to come across as the "typical rude American"). It was just things she kept saying to me, and the really crap grammar (I know I slip sometimes and I know some American grammar is different to British grammar but it is still correct) and how her son was dressed/what he was doing.

I am a terrible person -- I should be boosting instead of wondering "what the hell" behind her back. But I wonder about her in groups and after a "proper" conversation today I really do.

Scout - I had my judgypants on today when I saw a mother with her perhaps 8 / 9 yo boy in town at lunchtime (city centre) and he wasn't wearing a tshirt. I know it was hot. But I also bet he didn't have any sun screen on his lillywhite skin. And I know too much sunscreen's not a good idea - but at least cover up!!!

Happy belated birthday unserp.

Lapin - can I pass you a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake - might make you feel a bit better? We've apparently got ginger, lemondrizzle or chocolate?

I had a generally lovely day with mistlechick on Monday - and it was really nice that he said to me at the end of the day that he'd really enjoyed our day together. We didn't do anything particularly exciting or special - but we had fun, spent nearly all of the day outside and he did lots of playing.

Am gearing up for week away with manipulative MiL - could be really good - might not be. Wish me luck!

Scout I spend most of my day with my judgy pants on. Young mothers are rampant in NI. I'm not saying they are all bad mothers, but I do judge from my 40 year old perspective as they smoke while pushing prams and such.

LCT woke up at 230 this morning crying. And didn't resettle until about 4. And then barely napped despite a walk through the park. I may be in bed moments after him tonight.

We get lots of half-naked, lillywhite, ciggy smoking teen parents around here. Drives me insane! We live in a new development (first owners of house that's not 10 years old yet) on the end of one of the (many) council estates here. We're the short-cut to the railway path so I see loads. The other week it was the teenage parent at Tesco getting cola, crisps and chocolate at 10:30 p.m. with it's clearly exhausted toddler who was about Toddler's age that nearly made my head explode. Toddler had been a long-time in bed (asleep!) and I was on my way home from a Guiding night out.

Thank you for the birthday wishes; I had a lovely day. My sister drove all the way from Nottingham to Dorset for the evening and left at 6am to go back. RacingHound also ate a box of chocolates - not at all good for dogs, but she looks good on it. Is there a 'fingers crossed' emoticon?

Our garden is now officially a building site.DH is just spending his second day on the mini-digger moving all the soil to make mountains interesting levels. It will be a couple of years, I think, before it looks like a garden again.

See... when I was living near scoutville they were more into addihash t-shirts, kappa trousers and white trainers with baseball caps... but that is going back a bit now...

Sigh and smile - Amber - HOW VERY exciting... Was it a drunken thaaaang or is he serious about the girl in question? i.e Will you be inviting her for tea?

Good evening! I only went away for a day and so much happened.

Amber - Glad that DS is back - how do you feel about his girl friend - is it serious?

Serpent - your garden sounds a bit like mine - we have been calling it Work In Progress for about 10 years now. Since Small Bean arrived we have had the excuse of swings, sandpits and football nets to avoid doing anything else.

Scout - I am also a closet judgy pants - I try really hard not to be but just can't help it. Hope you get a better night's sleep. I was up in the wee hours trying to explain what 'pins and needles' were and why they hurt so much. I failed miserably.

Good luck with MIL Mistlethrush - we are spending the weekend with the outlaws - could go either way.

I just came over from the 'champagne in the fridge' thread. Lots of people over there with bubbly that they never drink so borrowed some Prosecco for over here - is that allowed?

Watching a program on British Wedding Cakes. Makes me wonder -- what was yours like?

Mine was a fairly trad, three tier thing. It did, though, have very very lovely flowers on it.

::Got my priorities right::

What flavor/s was it, Maud?

Mine was 3 tier but without the pillar things holding them up - just stacked if that makes sense. Cake shop told us on the morning of the wedding that the gold icing probably wasn't edible. I wish they'd mentioned it when I ordered.

How about your flavor/s, bean?

(Nosey emoticon)

It was fruit cake

::don't hold with this new-fangled fad for sponge emoticon::

and we did the trad thing of saving the first tier to be a Christening cake, but by the time we had Girl the cake would have been inedible!

Very traditional fruit cake with marzipan and icing - very boring but actually I love wedding cake!!

What about you?