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.

I've looked on their website, too. I know of two little toy shops in town that might have something. I know I like going into both though I think the one is more likely to have something I want than the other. I've also been checking out various national/international websites. Still scared you can buy a complete travel system for dolls....

Scout - I bought this one for a friend's son, he loved it. Unfortunately blue rather than neutral.

www.elc.co.uk/Cup-Cake-My-First-Stroller---Blue/125130,default,pd.html

That was the kind of thing Girl had. None of this £60 poncerama!

Hello! Back from lovely week on beach, watching it pour with rain now in happy fashion. Oxboy a delight and not looking forward to return to work/ school tomorrow

Practically, I think you should stay echoing both Raging and Tea reasons. And because not all of us tea roomers have only one!

Eating, drinking wine, throwing shapes and gossiping. That's what we do

I missed booking tickets to a fave band by looking at web site. Not doing it there and then. Returning later to find all sold out and then minding very much indeed it's really thrown me into one of those "I never do anything, what's the point of living in the Big Smoke if you never go out/ I am a hopeless prevaracator. With Big Thighs and a Floppy Belly kinda moods. Oxboy kindly said "why don't you book to go and see someone else" which was greater sense and kindness than I deserved!

Had been eyeing this though I like yours better, Bean. That's the sort of thing I was looking for! I wonder if the shop in YOUT has it in stock....

Unis - not a huge fan of porridge I'm afraid - my mum eats it every morning but it's (good-naturedly) known in our house as 'Gran's Slop'.

Would it be terribly rude to ask for toast and peanut butter instead?

ooh, and bean, the stroller has a same brand doll that isn't creepy looking.

YUNBU to get TS a pink dolly stroller, he won't care. Boy cheerfully pushed around a borrowed pink stroller for the 2 weeks that that passion lasted. Never had a doll, only teddies.

Breakfast assembly will commence early so that you may be assured of finding just the right thing on the table when you come down . BUt not tooo late or the greys will have eaten all the bacon.

DH is in a choir ( bass/ stunt tenor) They were signing some Tallis, Purcell and Rutter. in a church, sounded VERY VERY nice. They pulled out all the stops on this concert, worked very hard and achieved more than one might expect for an unadutioned choir drawn from just 4 villages.

I don't really know Rutter but Tallis and Purcell must have been gorgeous.

::Tries in vain to relive her youth and reach the soprano line of .

Which band, Oxeye?

Dr John, Maud. Not a band, more a left handed legend. I've seen him a few times, but always keen for more!

Scout - Oxboy has a pink stroller - long complicated story. He and many friends have happily played with it for many years....he is just starting a "boys good/ girls and girl things yucky" phase but has made no connection between this and his stroller

I know nuzzing about him. Will be on YouTube first thing tomorrow!

Night all!

I'm not anti pink it's just that everything I found is SOOO pink they're rather pukey-looking. And the more "gender neutral" things have been the travel systems that cost mucho money.

Sounds fab, UniS.

Most go iron work shirt for tomorrow (blurgh, I HATE ironing), sort out the washing up of TS's drink cups (hate leaving milk cups over night) and get to bed. So much to do, so little time (or, in tonight's case, major procrastination was happening).

G'night ladies!

Ah Maud, you have a treat in store....

the good doctor

Morning all!

Looks like a lovely day here in Belfast. Anyone for a and perhaps some breakfast on the veranda?

I am not allowed to have any as I am having blood taken this morning and must fast.

Then lots of stuff to do so I'll see y'all later!

I'm always game for and breakfast - yes please. Hope blood tests go ok, Tee.

Oxyeye, good music for breakfast time too.

Hurrah for my dsis who had done all of my ironing by the time I got back home from the cinema (X Men 5 (well, I would, wouldn't I )) with dh yesterday! That'll be a bunch of flowers for her.

What a lovely sis you have, Amber. Perhaps we should call her LovelySis, in the style of FineLad?

That's well groovy, Oxeye. ::Throws elderly shapes::

Good luck, Tee!

Back from the Lakes - good week - although stern words were required to get mistlechick into line half way through - after which a much more pleasant time was had by all.

Hope all's well with everyone - will try to catch up later.

Yay for amber's LovelySis! (She wouldn't be free to do my ironing too, would she?)

Welcome back MT.

Everything go okay today, Tee?

AIBU to want to go out and punch the ice cream truck driver? I am the mom of a poorly boy. Not poorly poorly, but teething, tired, grumpy, low-grade fever poorly. I got him into bed "early" (6:50 he was down) and he was asleep by 7. A few minutes later the ice cream man decided to come through our estate (which is one road with little side-shoots of a couple of houses) and turned on his song in front of my house not at the top of the road, but at my house which is closer to the bottom than the top of the road/estate. Cue screaming not crying, not wailing, SCREAMING. I run upstairs to find TS laying with bunnies in his arms, screaming, tears streaming down his face and he's shaking uncontrollably. It took me several minutes of swaying with his head on my shoulder and Bunny in his arms for him to stop sobbing. Finally get him calm and almost asleep when then damn yippy dogs next door (which he's a bit afraid of because they yip and jump on him) started barking which sent TS crying again (fortunately no screaming because I was still in the room) and the neighbor's outside shouting at the dogs.

I think TS has gone back to sleep now so now I can go make myself some dinner.

(And breathe)

::Mellors appears to offer a relaxing back rub for Scout::

Arrgh re ice cream/dog situation.
I've asked my dsis, and she seems unkeen to take on more ironing, alas

But I do seem to have some Bolly on the go, along with some very nice choccy fudge. Any takers for either? Guaranteed hangover and calorie free.

Oh poor Scout. There are sometimesadvantages to living in the countryside. No ice cream vans.

I have just got two minutes to look in inbetween writing DH's CV, AP's entire life story, doing my headteacher's management for her at a quarter of her salary and actually doing some of my own work which I seriously neglected during the holiday.

Have finally got a diagnosis for AP's acute problems: PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) long delayed after the war. Have spent the day listening to accounts of concentration camp experiments and trying to tidy up after the long break. All a bit traumatic and now we have to try and access some treatment.

I do hope everyone is very well, especially Amber, and that there are some others coming to the Great Zoo Meet Up. Tea says that she mentioned it here.

Oxeye, you have such a glamourous life - I am gutted that the library closed today before I could get there - I had been looking forward to a new book for days!

I am indeed very well thank you. Sheer ruddy determination to stay that way, n' all.
Have now booked the next wild weekend away with dh. Hurrah!
I've also managed to thoroughly confuse a chap on another big site, who thinks that dh must logically be a woman and that 'hubby' is simply a term I use. dh thinks this is very entertaining, I have to say. But I can understand the confusion.

Goodness Scout. That is hard. I suggest contacting Tavistock Centre? I was deLong with PTSD thus very afternoon. PM me if you like? Poor AP

Scout, have you tried an Amber necklace? Oxboy didn't even notice his teeth arriving ... Grr to ice cream.

Amber. Don't worry I'm not suggesting you go and drape yourself around Baby Scout neck. It's the stone y'know am inspired by your attitude xxx

Unserp. I'm not glamorous. Remember I failed to book for band in time. That still makes me someone who stats in and watches tv

Sorry. I meant Unserp that's hard re ap

and "dealing with PTSD" not deLong

Off to take an exhausted and unreasonable Wriggle to bed; will google Tavistock centre. Thank you. Please pm me with any ideas/suggestions - am totally and about today. We do live in safe little bubbles in an evil world.

OMG Scout, poor TS! I hope he's okay and sleeping soundly now.

Blood letting is/was no big deal. My regular test of glucose, lipids and liver function.

Unserp that sounds very difficult. I hope AP gets some help.

Amber are you resting?!?! Yes, you are! (too much Bob the Builder. )

I really should be going to bed. Had 3 excellent meetings today all of which just might generate some work!!! WHOOHOO!