The One and Only Tea Room - Now Hanging in Babylon

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Well folks, here we are, transported through time and space to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Golden couches and the distressed chintz sofa are arranged on a terrace overlooking the Euphrates and, as we recline on the exquisitely-soft cushions eating peeled grapes, we can enjoy the warm fragrance of the gardens' many exotic blooms. The garden is tended by the indefatigable Mellors, with occasional help from the bishops, rabbis and any passing world leaders. Somewhere behind the terrace there is an aga and a priest's hole, with optional massage table.

Please come and join us for a celebratory drink and conversation ranging from the profound to the profoundly silly.

[Tee2072]

Not watching it although we usually watch the voting, as biased as it is.

I had never heard of it when I first moved here and thought it was fascinating. Now I just think it's crappy music!

We were watching Doctor Who. Very very good ep. But I would expect that from Neil Gaiman's writing!

[beanandspud]

Sadly we are watching the tennis. I have been promised that we can watch the voting though! I secretly love Eurovision although perhaps that's a throw-back to prancing around the living room with my sister pretending to be Bucks Fizz

More anyone?

[Scout19075]

How much do I love Graham Norton's commentary?!

[beanandspud]

I love Graham Norton too. DH, who has no interest in this at all, is getting far too exited about the politics of the voting system,

I do miss Terry Wogan though.

[UnSerpentQuiCourt]

Happy birthday, Milk. Your card from Wriggle is stiil on top of our fridge .... but we may be meeting soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maud, I am agonising so much about Mistle's parcel that it is still in a very embryonic state .... I loved your parcel!

[oxeye]

Evening all!! I arrived with George Clooney last night and got a bit nostalgic about the tea room but the NMBs must gave eaten my post!!

Happy birthday Milk. 5 amazing eh? I quite often think Reading Scout and Tee is abit like Tea Room the early days for me!! It's lovely

gah missed Euro. Watched chick flick

[oxeye]

Since I have George under my arm baggsy I be the First Whore

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Eek and wow! This tea room's only been open a day and already we've got references to fornication.

::Covers the bishops' eyes and ears::

Happy birthday, Milk!

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

::Wrestles Oxeye for cardboard George::

[teafortwo]

Yay - birthday was lovely. The whole day was like a huge hug.

I am COMPLETELY over-whelmed by how many presents, cards and kind happy birthday wishes Milk has had. I have no idea how we are going to find the time to thank everyone...

[Scout19075]

Does anyone know where a small boy, who remained upstairs, could have lost a right shoe? It's been MIA since yesterday mid-morning when he walked off with it. MrScout put on Toddler's walking "boot" shoes in the pinch but they left nasty marks on Toddler's feet so we both agreed they wouldn't go on him again. Happened to buy cheap croc-style shoes for when we do gardening and water table play and can put him in those for today but would really like to know where Toddler tossed his right shoe....

[MaryBS]

Its not behind a door, curtain etc? Or in a toy box?

Glad Milk had a lovely day Tea, a belated happy birthday from me! :)

You can keep George, oxeye, he's not my type :)

Bought 2 copies of a "certain"* newspaper yesterday for its lego giveaway. Its brilliant! Not only that, WHSmith give you £1 off a magazine if this paper is bought, and given the paper only costs 60p on a Saturday, its a good deal! :)

*DH reads it for the football

[Scout19075]

Have checked behind doors. TS can't get to the windows (headers under the windows so we have things like tables/desks in the way so he doesn't get burned). Have checked under beds, blankets, etc. Toys/toybox is in the living room, so not there. Checked tub. Know it's not in the toilet/s. Don't want to check the nappy bin but think that's the next stop (blurgh!).

[Tee2072]

Morning. Blerugh.

Scout I usually find LCT's on a bookcase behind a book. Or under the sofa.

Brunch anyone? I'm thinking Belgian Waffles made to order, real maple syrup, streaky bacon, fresh squeeze orange juice lots of ? Or perhaps mimosas?

[beanandspud]

Have you tried the washing basket? That's where I find a lot of Small Bean's things.

[purpleknittingmum]

Hope you find the shoe soon Scout

Oh can I hide an amusing comment here? My daughter yesterday asked if America ever enters Eurovision? Managed to not burst out laughing!!

[UnSerpentQuiCourt]

Bloody bloody bloody government has decommissioned and archived all the curriculum and schemes of work in an infantile exercise of overturning everything the last lot did in education. I can't get at the archived resources and I have so much work to do trying to prepare a new science/mfl resource for teachers to use.

Seem to have fallen out with a very close friend over the amount of time her daughter has been spending at our house playing with Wriggle and have been made to feel awful; tactless and clumsy. But she asked to come and play, I always asked her mother (who I suspect didn't want to say no to her) and now I am in the wrong. Stupid stupid. Obviously someone less tactless and clumsy would have said no, but I really didn't realise that it was a problem. Doubly stupid.

(Have you spotted that this evening is not going well?)

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Have you looked between the cot and the wall, Scout? Girl used to wedge all sorts of stuff down there.

Ha! at America being part of Europe. It often feels the other way round.

Serpent - It's a cross-government thing, I think. A lot of government websites have been archived at more or less the time of the general election. Some of the old stuff is accessible through old links and some is not. At the same time, a lot of current stuff has moved off departmental sites and onto DirectGov (although I doubt your teaching resources would be there).

I'm not sure ::cough:: that it's an infantile exercise of overturning etc. In part, it seems to be a continuation of what's been happening over the past several years with government departments taking old stuff off their websites (even though some users are still interested in it and using it). The websites I use most often have shrunk a lot because of this.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Serpent - Why are you in the wrong for being hospitable? You do (if I may say so) have some odd friends and not just in the tea room.

Have

[MaryBS]

Perhaps she's jealous of the fact her DD wants to spend so much time round yours? DD has a newish friend who currently is turning up nearly every day, she's 2 years older than DD. We know her through church, but DD and she have only recently become close.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Yes, that's what I suspect, Mary. This lady has ishoos.

::Rush to judgement::

[UnSerpentQuiCourt]

I'm afraid, Maud, that I do think it is just an exercise in 'I'll undo everything you did, just because I can'. Labour commissiond a brilliant report, which recommended a lot of really innovative and creative ideas, which would have edged teaching a little closer to the kind of environment I would really enjoy and, more to the point, the ind of environment in which I think most children would thrive. The present government has stated that it will not accept the report and has suspended all the curricula and schemes of work that we use to work from. We will apparently have to wait until June when they will deign to give us our new orders. Rumours abound and everyone worries that their speciality or interest will disappear. I know for a fact that my second employment has been axed. My opinion has nothing to do with my political persuasion, incidentally.

[UniS]

sympathy serpent. don't worry about digging yourself out of a hole you didn't dig in teh first place.other mum will come to her senses eventually.

Is the shoe in a drawer scout?

All action boy has been running about all weekend, 5 mile walk yesterday 8 miles of cycling today. got him to bed before 7, think he will sleep well.


My these hanging gardens are interesting, is that really delenn of minibar over there?? My own babylon images are currently heavily influenced by this book.

How many miles to Babylon?
Three-score and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes, there and back again.
If your heels are nimble and light,
You will get there by candle-light.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

::Unpacks the glitter ball and sets it spinning::

::Throws retro-cool shapes::

[Scout19075]

Serp, I agree with the others, it sounds like the mother of Wriggle's friend is jealous.

Still no shoe.

Have bought some more seeds to plant in pots with TS tomorrow, provided the weather is decent enough to get outside. Finally managed to get him some shorts (YAY!) and bought just about everything for my SiL's baby present (with the new kids I've been around for I've put together a goodie bag of consumables -- nappies, wipes, talc, etc., since they have so many kids they don't need toys/clothes and the consumables aren't cheap).

Why is it when I'm actually hungry (a rarity!) and craving something it's food I can't have?!?!