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!

LOL Unis!

damn, lost post again; never mind, Happy St George's/Sant Jordi's Day everyone! lol Unis!

no morris dancers or mummers for us (I wish) but lovely family day all the same.

sorry missed the disco, tea! catching up now. Pink Martini/Lily has led me to obviously. Who is old enough to remember it?!

Very good UniS! [bugrin]

I love Lily the Pink. I was very [buhmm] when a friend of a friend named her DD Lily Pink - I did ask if she was aware of the song and she blithely said "oh yes, it's quite funny, isn't it" [buhmm]

Love Lilly The Pink. Great song
has anyone watched kd lang on bbc4 sessions? Fabby
happy easter all

xxx

Happy Easter everyone!!!!

Good morning!

Happy Easter! [busmile]

Eggs wrapped, chocolate/cherry dessert almost done (have to do it in stages since each layer requires refrigeration), cupcakes baked, white chocolate rabbit feet cooling/hardening, plastic eggs for children's egg hunt stuffed and ready for hiding. Oh, and TS is fed, watered and not interested in his Easter Basket from the Easter Bunny. [buhmm]

Good morning.

And Happy Easter to those who celebrate. [bugrin]

Scout, I'll be right over to help eat that dessert. [busmile]

Just a regular Sunday here. Off to clean the loos in a bit. Um, yay? [buhmm]

Happy Easter ladies!
We had a very small Easter egg hunt this morning - seein as miniT is only 3, and we'd been awake a couple of times in the night, I ditched the outdoor hiding idea and instead hid 15 mini Cadbury's eggs (we get lovely coloured foil ones, not just Cadbury's purple) in the living room, mostly among his toys. He found them all with a bit of help!

The hot cross buns were rather lovely, in fact are as we still have some left; and the carrot cake isn't too bad either! I've never made carrot cake before, wasn't sure what to expect, but it's pretty nice - the icing is too sweet for miniT though.

The hot cross bun recipe is from last year from the bakealongaMN with some bloke (CMOTD knows, she was on it) - and the carrot cake recipe is Harman's one from MN recipes as well. But luckily on poster had commented that it was very small, so I did 1.5 times the quantities and it worked fine.[bugrin]

I got sent via FB a rather lovely raspberry and chocolate muffin traybake recipe, which I meant to try out as well but didn't get the ingredients together in time. Never mind - as soon as we run out of carrot cake, that's the next on the list!

MiniT has been rationed on chocolate - he really does go manic if he has too much and it's more than I can deal with, so he has had about half of his mini-eggs over the day and none of his rabbit (they go big on chocolate rabbits here); although I suspect he might have snuck an extra chocolate egg from his Toy Story tin lunchbox thingy from MIL.

Cleaning loos? ! [bushock] Step away from that loo brush this very instant! Here, have a nice sit down on the distressed chintz sofa and a bit of Easter Egg

I used to sing Lily the Pink in school assemblies as a child!

KD Lang - REALLY??? How coooool. I am at you all having bbc4. I WANT IT!!! GRRRR!!!

tee - I celebrate Easter in a light 'Aren't bunnies, lambs and chicks cute' culturally we do this kinda way. Is it too nosy to ask why you don't celebrate Easter?

My Mum used to buy us a book for Easter (I think she looked at the prices of eggs and thought - I could buy book for that! SO did). I do the same for Milk. She had a book wrapped in yellow and green paper and a card to open from her Grandmamma. Next we are off to the market - which is sure to be a party ambience and then this afternoon we are going to the town Easter egg hunt and Easter fair.

P.S - French people have chocolate fish for Easter... (e.g all bakery and chocolate shop windows are filled with choccy eggs, bunnies, lambs, chicks and fish. My favourite spy - chocolate tinned sardines) what is this all about, though??? I keep asking French people and they don't seem to know either. (Typical conversation: French person: Well, urrrm, tradition innit? Easter means eggs, lambs, chicks, bunnies and FISH. Me: yes, but FISH - I don't get it? Why fish? French person: Well it IS Easter you have to have chocolate fish!) If anyone knows WHY it would help my easily confused head!

Happy Easter (for all celebrating it) HAVE FUUUUUN!!!! xxxxx

I wondered if the fish would be anything to do with the general use of a fish as a symbol for Christians (you know, how you see fish bumper stickers and so on). But I did a quick google search, tea, and came up with this:
interparole-catholique-yvelines.cef.fr/poissonpaques/RecitJeanPoissonPaques.htm or if you fancy a more Milk-like explanation, this. Which do you prefer? (Sorry for elitist French links, it says they translate!!)

oh yeah and Happy Easter to all who want it!! [busmile] [bugrin] [busmile]

tea, mostly because I'm Jewish. [bugrin] I have, however, eaten a large quantity of chocolate eggs. MrTee was raised CoI, but is a devote atheist these days.

I would also assume the fish thing is because you eat fish at Lent and the fishes and loaves? But, as I've noted, I'm Jewish, so what the heck do I know? [bugrin]

Ah bum. Didn't restrict miniT's chocolate enough and now he is a whingey little beast. He needs to go to sleep but just wants "more bunny, more eggs, please mummy" (at least he's mostly asking nicely for them!) and then saying "you make me sad" when I say no.

TS did finally spy his Easter Basket. Gave new Bunny a cuddle then sat on MrScout's lap for ages moving the little packets of sweets (which make a lovely, crinkly noise) from one side of himself to the other. No demands for his chocolate bunny or the gummy sweets (which are really for his parents). He fell asleep for a pre-lunch nap sitting up in his travel bed. After photos I've laid him down with his bunnies and he's in peaceful oblivion.

Tee, you're Jewish? Brilliant! Happy Passover! One of my oldest friends is Jewish.

Great church service this morning. Now some easter egg eating will have to commence...

Happy Easter, lovely TeaRoomers!
xxxxJM

Tee, chocolate/cherry dessert a hit. Still some left -- when shall we expect you?

We have some raspberry roulade if anyone would like some?

Yet again I am grateful for my only. Whew, they're hard work!

Can anyone make any recommendations for a good diaper-rash remedy? I've been using E45 Nappy Cream and tonight gave TS a bath in warm salty water. But the poor boy is sooooo red and sore and has what may be open sores that he screams if you even go near his nappy let alone try to clean him and put cream on (he screams at the cream, too, which normally he doesn't). It's horrible, the scream of pain. It's normally reserved for head bangs.

And will the swimming pool cause pain?

I wouldn't do the swimming pool - I think it would really sting. Go out tomorrow in the garden and get his nappy off for a few hours after a bath to let it all dry. I used bepanthan as necessary, mixed with vaseline

For nappy rash. www.metanium.co.uk/?gclid=CLPXsoSCtqgCFQEZ4QodcXiSBQ is good, as is lots of bare bum time. You may be lucky and he starts using a potty at same time, if he's at all regular its good move, saves sitting about in damp nappy aggravating teh rash.

Happy easter , Happy Pesach, Happy Anzac day.

Much chocolate consumed. Top pudding after a roast chicken dinner, ice cream and sprinkles, teh sprinkles being broken up choc from eggs ( dark and milk) and cinder toffee, also toffee and choc sauces. Managed to get boy to watch Air bud film, boy was its laughably bad, kept teh 3 grown ups amused , boy liked it in teh end.