The one and only Tearoom, to be sure , it is.

[UniS]

To pinch an intro from the very first one and only tea room thread. in 2009.

The tea room is now officially open, serving hot chocolate, tea, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a range of home-baked muffins. Tablecloths and crockery are charmingly mismatched antiques (no Cath Kidston here). We overlook an attractive although somewhat overgrown garden, with a distant view of rolling countryside.

Everyone is welcome but house rules dictate that anyone indulging in fisticuffs will be ejected.

Please come in.

2011
We seem to have fetched up in Ireland, this place looks remarkably like a pub,There is even a guiness barrel over there. The NMBs are all sporting shamrocks. The mirror ball is here, but I leave teh rest of the unpacking to someone else.

I'm supposed to be going out to my sil's b'day drinks in a min. It's realy chucking it down here, not really in the mood to go out. Stupid though, most of the time I'm complaining that I never go out in the evenings .

MT - I also became a veggie when I was a child. I was 9, am still veggie, I converted dh and we are raising LittleO as a veggie.

Could all these experienced veggies suggest easy snack lunches/picnics, etc?

'lo darlings!
Welcome Cheerful Yank!

Serp, I think part of your sadness is also you are not at all sure about Wriggle going to school at all, but you are right, it's always a first and a last, every step of the way....

wave and hugs to everyone

I agree, where is Tea and did Thumb make it over here and home again/

Crap, I just read the thread on what people thought when they first saw their baby, and now I want one. Damn it. Also today both dh and LittleO said they wanted one. Damn, damn, damn. I'm off to bed x

Grr. Grrr, grrr, grrrrr

I took DS and my friend's DDs (aged 5 and 7) to the playground today and there was the nastiest little boy there. He said he was seven and he was there with an older sister (I think, who was not watching him at all. He shoved my DS to the ground (over a swing), told the girls "you have big butts" , threw rocks, hit one of the girls...all the while his sister sat with some other teenage girls saying things like "I thought your parents didn't want me to hang out with you because, like, they think I dress like a slut...no you're a slut! You are! Ohmigod, he was so wasted at that party and like I thought he was gonna get in sooo much trouble because his mom's a bitch and like, I was like, she's gonna frickin murder him but then..."

I told the boy that he could not throw rocks, etc, and finally after he shoved DS said "you need to go play by yourself if you're not going to play nicely" quite firmly. I didn't want to get into it with his sister and finally (because the boy was just being terrible) I told the three I was with, "We need to go, because unfortunately some people here aren't being very nice." (Plus, it was just time to go.)

Anyway, I was telling someone I work with about this and she implied that I was being PFb about things! I don't care if I'd had a dozen kids, I wouldn't be okay with that.

Just wanted to vent... :)

Yank I would have said something as well. Nothing to do with PFB and everything to do with manners. Yes, even on the playground!

Off to view a house today. Fingers crossed...

What shall we have for breakfast? LCT is have inhalers with a side of penicillian.

AandO when I have felt like that when I've really thought about it, I want those moments with dd. As time goes on I realise just how lucky I am to have a happy healthy dd and get the baby squidges from everyone else's babies ( without the night waking!)

Yank - I have an uncontrollable urge to respond in the face of bad manners, so I am with you 100%.

It just seems like almost four years old is the magic age....now that DS is there people seem to attach everything I do or say as a parent with "well, he is your only one..." um, we plan to have more, and even if we didn't, what the hell is that, anyway?

I just got here and I'm being all ranty. I'm usually quite smiley and even-keeled, swear. :)

Three cheers for MrScout and all of the wonderful treats he brought back from the States for me. I thought he'd bring back one packet/bag of treats and he brought FIVE big bags. And I thought one bottle of my favorite salad dressing (that you can't get here) and he brought THREE. YAY for MrScout!

Hip Hip Horraaaah! Hip Hip Horraaaah! Hip Hip Horrah! For MrScout!

The house was lovely. Huge kitchen, huge bathroom, 3 lovely sized bedrooms, good size lounge...and about a mile too far off the main road for us non-drivers. Also up a huge hill. I wish I could move it about 1/2 mile down the road. Oh well, next one might be it!

Yank, if I may be nosy, I think you said you were born in America? May I ask what brings you to MN? Is your DH British or are we just that interesting?

I grew up in CT, BTW, went to university in Iowa and lived in San Francisco Bay Area before I moved to Belfast to be with my Northern Irish husband. LCT was born here, obviously!

Hiya all. Sorry to hear of your nasty experience CY: I would have done the same.
Hurray for Mr. Scout and boo to the geographical location of Tee's possible house.

Hello all. DD is at a party, and the house is TOO quiet. Never mind, it won't last - she was a last minute invitee, the other three girls who are there are staying for a sleepover and she isn't, due to lack of space. So before much longer we'll have her back AND she will no doubt be full of WOE.

Had an MN moment with DD's school bag the other day. The summer fair is next Saturday, with a non-uniform day the Friday before. New head has decreed that instead of the usual £1 donation children are to be sent in with a bottle for the tombola. Examples given are bubble bath, wine, balsamic vinegar ... the balsamic made me laugh. Very poncy. I do wonder just how many glass bottles of random substances are going to end up smashed in the playground though ... I have Tiptree hot mango sauce to send in, glass bottle but a nice substantial one, hope it survives! I may have to buy a tombola ticket; I'd quite like it back. :o

Did I mention MrScout also brought back fabulous, yummy treats he knows I love but didn't put on my wishlist?

YAY for MrScout!

DCMB - (tongue in cheek) is it not really tempting to send a 4-pack of fruit shoots - you will spot some of the mn-ers in a second!!!!

Evening everyone!

Well done Mr Scout! Must be good to have him back home. Is it treats with salad dressing for supper?

Tee - what a shame about the house, something right has to come up for you. Keeping fingers crossed.

We have had a really lovely day. Birthday party this morning was good and then we went to a country fair where Small Bean had a wonderful time watching tractors, steam engines and motorbikes... Did some gardening, picked loads of raspberries from the garden and now feel totally lazy.

Small Bean fast asleep (and snoring) - completely done in!

Hee hee ... actually I have some of those proper-juice Fruit Shoots that DD has decided she doesn't like after all ...

She is staying for the sleepover. Either we will be asleep before she is, or we will be collecting her at midnight. Or both.

What kind of dressing is it? Hidden Valley? :)

DH isn't British, no. Um, how did I get here? I almost don't remember. OH! I participate in a radio trivia game every year that goes for fifty straight hours. I was up at three in the morning and stumbles across someone asking about celiac disease. (I have it.) I created a username to answer the question and just never left. :)

That's such a shame about the house Tee! My dh doesn't drive either and it did limit the houses we could consider.

What is the weather like in the UK? Actually don't tell me, it's torrential rain here for the past two days. Not that it was much better before that.

So weird but cool thing, I was on a MN thread about schooling and was talking about the school LittleO is starting in september, then a few days later I noticed I had a message in my mn inbox, it was from a woman whos dd is starting in the same school as LittleO!! She recognised it from my description and she suggested we meet up over the summer as then the kids will each know someone already when they start school. They will be in the same class (well in the same year, which is divided into two classes) so that'll be great. Plus it'll be nice for me to have someone to chat to when I arrive as I won't know anyone.

Yay for Mr Scout, he sounds amazing!

Morning all. Off to here today if anyone would like to come along!

Also have copious amounts of as LCT fell out of bed hard about midnight and then nearly did again at 2am. Bedrail now attached to mine and MrTee's bed! We'll move it back to LCT's bed when we try moving him again in July.

Have a nice day all!

I'm coeliac too CY - 15 years next month of gluten free living for me

What a result AandO - nice to have someone you know around.

Its Too Hot here

Anyone for Pimms ? Part of your 5 a day y'know

DS is asleep, having nodded off on the way back from todays outing. DH and I are enjoying the peace

Anyone around to help with some slicing and dicing? Scissors and guillotine provided....

Aaahhh, the divine Ella. Thank you Maud. You sent me off on a little mini Ella YT tour, culminating in me, MrR and RBoy all dancing together in our living room to "Our love is here to stay"!

Yes please to Pimms, CMOT. How right you are about its nutritional content. I actually nearly ordered a Pimms while out at dinner tonight, but went for a beer instead.

Unfortunately, dinner ended in a bit of a disaster - RBoy has a fairly severe egg allergy and some of the higher-end ice creams have egg yolk in them (who knew? we found out the hard way). So, I made sure to ask the waitress if there was any egg yolk in the chocolate ice cream that RBoy quite naturally wanted for pudding. Oh no, she said, and actually laughed at the absurdity of the idea. No, definitely not.

So we ordered it.

Two spoonfuls in, RBoy pushed the bowl away and said his throat hurt. Oh no. Cue me pushing my empty salad bowl in front of him. He then vomited up his entire meal, the entire contents of his little tummy in fact. And it really caused him a lot of distress today - much more than usual (it used to happen more often when we were still working out which things he's allergic to), as it was going up his nose and just really, really horrible for him. So he was really crying and making a lot of noise generally - having been extremely well behaved all thro dinner. Cue funny looks from other diners.

I meanwhile am trying just to soothe him and comfort him and mop him up; I grabbed a passing waiter to get more serviettes and tell them that the ice cream clearly did have egg in it; 2 mins later they come back and say oh dear, yes, it did say "contains egg yolk" but not "contains egg" so they hadn't managed to make the connection. And I had ASKED specifically about EGG YOLK anyway!!!

We are just lucky that his allergy is not of the really, really severe kind that lands you in A&E and needs an epipen. (He has got one in fact but it's never been needed or used, so far, touch wood.) Staff were contrite to a degree but we won't be eating there again, I think that's safe to say. And luckily RBoy was fine by the time we got home, and he'd sneezed about a million times. And had a proper ice cream from an ice cream van to make up for it all.

Scout - am a bit too weary now to be much use with the slicing and dicing, am a bit worried I'd guillotine my own fingers off! But yay for MrScout - must be great to have him back - and belated congrats from the other day to you.

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Oh no, RagingRabbit. Do you want to name and shame this eatery with staff who are clearly deficient in gorm?

::Gratefully knocks back the Pimms::