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.

Pimms - good - because you can claim at least one of your 5 a day at the same time

vege lunches/ picnics - I think falafels are great. in sandwiches, or just as finger food - fairly healthy too. Homous is also good. Depends on the lunch or picnic really - I used to have tomato and basil sandwiches when there were homegrown toms available - delicious. and depends whether eggs are on the menu or not.

RR - MC has also done the occasional 'bounce' of meal in a restaurant - neither of the what was actual fairly major incidents were noticed by any other diners - and MC has the ability to be sick and bounce back within 5 mins to his normal chirpy self - having been a bit withdrawn....

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong!!! Morning - I do like MC to eat breakfast - normally he has oats with a topping of other cereal - he chooses which. This morning he had an hour sitting in front of it and his drink - DH sent him upstairs to get ready for school - he'd had perhaps 3 spoons and none of the drink - so I made him drink a mug of water before going to school. Some mornings breakfast is inhaled - he just gets on and eats it - what am I doing wrong on a morning like today? And how can I get him to eat it and drink something without all the associated drama?

MT,not sure. If it were me who was reacting strangely to a meal, it might be because of a variation in something - bowl, spoon, tablecloth, background noise distractions etc but not a clue re MC.

DH has pointed out that MC went to bed an hour late last night - might be part of the reason. Although he did come and announce the time 30 mins before it was time to get up this morning

unis runs in screaming -- Arrrrrrrrghhj. why did today have to get sooooobusy.
Back later to read. love ya.

::hands to UniS on her way past and waves::

Afternoon ladies.

Ill little boy and ill mummy today. Lots of sofa time!

Mistle sometimes LCT scarfs breakfast, other times he ignores it. I don't really sweat it either way.

Be back later with some and s.

Tee, hope you both feel lots better v soon.

::hands over extra blankets for the sofa, just in case::

I think Tee's right - don't make a big issue of whether breakfast gets eaten or not - but this is in large part because I have a real fear of Girl (or any girl) developing Issues around food and eating.

Pimms, anyone?

Hope you feel better, Tee !

Hello!
I'm hiding from Mumsnet at the moment - I keep getting lured into reading the various threads about teachers striking...

It is not good for my morale/blood pressure

And Michael Gove makes my blood boil....

He's been at it again over the weekend
We haven't even started the new GCSE syllabi in science yet - and already he has declared that they will change in 2012 so that they are no longer modular.....

I give up. I can't even keep up with reading about all the changes he is making, never mind having to try and implement them.

Thankfully boy pretty well always eats breakfast. Fortunate as like his mother he's MUCH pleasanter once he has some sugars on board. His typical breki at present is two cereals with milk in one bowl with a side helping of dried fruit ( these MUST not get wet or boy melts down) and a mug of milky tea.

Well, The day is over now, phew. It was just one thing after another today. SHopping trip , eye test, watch in for repair not ready before lunchtime, working at school lunchtime so had to go back to town in afternoon, but by then a cheque had comein post so went to bank too, and butcher. back home, make bread dough, shopping away, get boy from school, pick fruit and veg for tea, cook tea, doing reading, eat tea, get boy and mate to cricket, help at cricket, homeward again, boy to bed and NOW. stop, relax and only about 4 things left to do my jobs list.
job application, water greenhouse, bins out, posters printed and a few e-mails oH, that 5, damm. job app will wait till tomorrow.

melllors- I need you. Can you follow me round and massage my back as I go.

Or maybe Amber wouldn;t mind stapling me to teh sofa, since she has had so much practise being stapled there herself. Thank you muchly for teh cuppa earlier, just what I needed.

What a day, UniS. Just getting towards the end of 'The Lives Of Christopher Chant' - I put it off until I could not wait any longer.

Wriggle rarely eats breakfast because we cannot persuade her to. At weekends she has one or two boiled eggs at about 9.30; in the week she has very little/nothing. We just can't force it down her so early. [very bad mummy emoticon]

I agree about the 'feather-bedded teachers at school 4 hours a day and why should we pay their inflated pensions?' threads, Donki, and I am really worried what he will order for primary schools. The man is quite quite crazy, but I am quite sure his children will not suffer.

Have had stressful, scarey, magical, exhausting week in turns and it is only ... Monday!, I need to listen to . Nothing to do with the lyrics - just the sound, swirling and looping.

Oh, I love that song Serpent and am very grateful to you for introducing me to it.

Flying visit...

Unis - your day sounds exhausting - I'm tired just reading it.

Tee - hope that you are both feeling better.

Mistle - would MC eat something different at breakfast? Nursery laughed at me the other morning when Small Bean arrived eating the remains of a ham sandwich but that's what he decided he wanted. Toast, different cereal, breakfast bar, yogurt, dried fruit, smoothie? I tend to be a bit 'old school' and think that breakfast is important but at the same time the more you make an issue of it the harder it becomes.

Mr Bean is away so hot chocolate and book at the ready I'm off to bed. Night all!

greenhouse still not watered :-( ho hum, will do it tomorrow..

Hot choc? or a stiffer sort of nightcap?

Mistle. Gatita refuses to have breakfast on a regular basis. She will eat it at nursery but not at home. Kittenito on the other hand has breakfast at home everyday and a second one at nursery. On a weekend I try and get Gatita to join Kittenito in his second breakfsst at about 10 ish. I am not always successful. I try not to make a big deal about it because I don't want food to be an issue for her. But I don't like it. I can only say what my mum says: if she's happy, you don't need to worry.
In my experience not wanting to eat for me or Kittenito is a sign of imminent illness. I hope this is not the case here.
sorry you having a hard day.

Morning.

::tee vaguely waves her cup around hopefully::

2 seconds after I came awake at 0023 and said to myself 'he's going to puke' LCT did indeed puke. No time to get a bucket. Sheet and small boy changing in the middle of the night, including added runny poo nappy, is not my idea of fun. Then he started to wheeze. Oh and his fever was 104F!

It's down now and he seems a bit better. But another sofa day. I wonder if I can write code with one hand and do some work while he snuggles...

::fills for Tee and others just waking up::

Arrgh re various ill children...not good.

Donki, I have my Union card at the ready and my brazier burning.

Euurgh Tee - hope he feels better today.

DH never has breakfast - he says he just can't stomach it, ad remembers his mum forcing him, so going to school feeling sick because of it. I, on the other hand, need to eat as soon as I get up, but will quite happily skip dinner.

DS discovered Metallica this morning, and approves greatly. Am a bit sad for him today as it is Grandparents day and there is no one to go and do it with him.

Am about to embark on trying to find someone to go and clean my parents house/ tidy up/ keep an eye on them

Oh dear, Tee. The one and only time Wriggle had a vomiting bug, I kept her draped in towels, with a pile of towels next to me, so that I could just whip off the soggy one and throw it into a bucket, which was emptied into the washing machine at half-day intervals.

Wriggle's best friend's dog is being put down today as he can no longer walk. I am leaving it to friend's dad how far she will be involved, since they have her for the day ... Don't know how to deal with Big Issues and anyway I am away on an R.E. conference today (which should be a place to get some ideas, I suppose).

(And dry toast and banana for those small people with upset tummies)

CMOT - Ah Metallica! Makes me feel very nostalgic...

I used to have all sorts of things for breafast when I was a child .... left-over curry, bread soaked in gravy, left-over pasta ... I have never liked traditional 'breakfast foods'. (Now I eat them because I have neither the time nor energy to find a special breafast just for me. Would that work, Mistle? Ie he can design his own breakfast out of what is available in the fridge?

ohh heck and urrgggh Tee. Sympathy. and here, have a and an nmb to help around the house.

Thank you for all the suggestions - I will give them a try on a bad day. However, today was a good day. He came down in just his PJ shorts (he was SO surprised he could take his Tshirt off as it was hot, and just sleep under the sheet - and I said to him that I didn't want a repeat of the day before - so, what did he want on his oats - honey - fine - right, you have 30 mins to eat them, if its not eaten by then, I'll take it away, there'd be no issue, but he wouldn't get a snack (because if he didn't want breakfast he clearly wouldn't be hungry enough for a snack either). Breakfast eaten, no issue, in 15mins.

Tee - hope you're all feeling better soon. Second the towel ideal.

CMot - just wonder whether my parents might know of someone in the area that might at least be able to suggest a direction to look in.

Mistle, if they did have any ideas, that would be wonderful. A cleaner who didn't mind sorting the fridge/fruitbowl out to get rid of elderly food, tidying up and just being a pair of eyes in the house would work now - they don't need care per se, but more than someone hoovering iyswim.

Thanks for that Bean ds was playing air guitar to . Then demanded 'bongos' which translates as