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.

Oh and CONGRATULATIONS Scout!!!!!!!

Scout, hurrah!!!

::hands out copies of 'colour in your own scene of tropical paradise' for those who are bored of looking at rain and hedges::

Hope the zoo thing goes well for those that are going...

JM - no you haven't - long past... although it is the thing that brought me to MN in the first place...

UniS hands her colouring sheet back. She has coloured in one tree and one parrot. This morning we were asked to make a family Shield ( or flag) with our children at schoool. Boy and I came up with a shield that had cycles in 3 out of 4 quarters! and when boy explained it to the group it was all about him and daddy and I didn't get a look in at all :-( Huuuurmph.

That's a very good tree and parrot, young UniS! You can have five minutes extra Golden Time with Mellors later as a treat

Arrgh re Boy's deletion of you from the proceedings. It's the naughty corner for him, I'm afraid.

Yay! Congratulations Scout
Three cheers!

DS's t-shirt is now covered in NUT stickers with the same phrase..... (he spent ages lining them up precisely and tesselating the colours in a regular pattern)

(((mistle)))
I don't think I know your story, but whatever it is - I'm glad you're here and I hope you're ok(ish) now. xx

JB made me laugh last night. We were lying in bed, cuddling and watching TV, and Max & Ruby was over. He said "Mummy I want to watch another show". Then he paused. Huuuuuuuge yawn. "No I don't, I want to go to sleep."
Rolled over, closed his eyes, was asleep in 15 seconds. LOL. I wish I could do that.
I should have taken the opportunity and gone to sleep myself, but nooooo, I stayed up MNing (and, oh my goodness, actually posting on some threads rather than just lurking!!) and finished a book. Lucky for me JB slept until 7:30 am so I'm not feeling too sleep-deprived.

DH comes home tomorrow!!! Yes, we did get to see him last week, but man, that was a long three weeks. (He was away on a course.) JB has been waking up and asking first thing, "where is daddy??" And we've had regular melt-downs screaming for daddy. I'll be happy to have my husband back, but I know who's going to be the happiest kid on the block!!

It maybe too early for me, but would anyone like some ?

Afternoon all.

Day started at 0345 with a boy with a fever, again. So running around putting out client fires with a cranky boy who finally crashed at about 12 and slept until 330! I wish I could have joined him!

YAYA Scout.

YAYA JM.

YAYA Mellors!

It's not too early for . I would like a gallon of it please. Especially since irl I'm down to about 3 small glasses a week. Grr.

::examines the new artwork with great appreciation:: Mellors will see you now, Donki?

grrr, my witty post got eaten. hurrmph.

evening all. Tiffin any body?

Mm, tiffin!

Yum. IRL, I resisted a tiffin-y rocky-roady thing that was lying in wait next to the till in the pub (where I spend an hour while DD does gymnastics). Just had my cuppa. And marked five exam scripts.

I have a bit of a public service announcement for you. I went to give blood yesterday, and they have a new question - have you had infertility treatment since 1980? Don't know who here gives blood/has had such treatment, but thought it was worth spreading the word as it could be a bit of a shock to be asked that question out of the blue.

Clomid doesn't count, btw.

Ah! Mellors - A withers rub would be sublime!
Thankyou......

Unusual question, DCBM. Wonder what that does to people's blood?

Tiffin? I'm always game for a bit of tiffin. Yes please.

I'm not allowed to give blood due to my heart condition (and now the other issue). I would if I was allowed.

amber, is it too late to hand in my coloring page?

Took TS to the park today, the one with a nice playground that has toddler sized climbing stuff as well as child sized stuff. He realized today that not only can he climb the steps without me (he worked that out last time steps are the one thing I've always been a bit [concerned] about and am a bit more [ack!] about since his fall) he can go down the slide without holding onto my hand. Oh the look of excitement on his face, especially as I cheered him. Twenty times he did it over and over and over. But he was happy and enjoying himself. He also pushed Bunny in his stroller around the park.

It was the best investment ever, that stroller. It's what he wants to use/play with all the time so we've been going for lots of walks so he can give Bunny a ride (he's still unsure of the baby I got for him, so Bunny gets the fresh air). Grandma-aged women keep making (positive) noises at him (and me) for him having a pushchair and pushing his cuddley/friend/Bunny/baby around.

anyone?

Aaaaargh!
Overtired DS is in bed, shouting and screaming that he is too energetic to sleep.
I have already put him back to bed twice.....

I had a bit of that tonight, too.

Donki- would you like me to come round and issue dire threats? Seems to have worked on boy this week, I threaten to NOT take him to cricket on friday - he settles down in bed and stays quiet.

DH is being mysterious in teh shed... A large parcel arrived yesterday from a bike shop, it is my birthday soon..... I think I'll leave him to get on with it.

No striking teachers here as far as I could tell,school open as usual and no obvious absences. Inset day tomorrow tho.

knackered now having driven a long way today to see surgeon. Now I have to shop for two more consultants to do stuff he can't...

Kids' sports day tomorrow, if the weather hold out. I am NOT taking part in the parents' race, no matter how much goading I receive...

The was much appreciated. The YD eventually calmed down and went to sleep - BUT he is 8. Tantrums at this age seem a lot harder to cope with.....

JM - my one-childness is partly due to the fact I had started off badly - got pregnant just after I hit the top of the nhs ivf list - then had mc - on holiday... Kept on going back to Dr, eventually got a scan - turned out to have been a molar pregnancy which should have been followed up - had a 2nd erpc, then 2 wks later when that clearly hadn't sorted it out, carted off 40 miles in an ambulance on a Saturday to one of the 3 specialist centres that cope with it in the UK. Then had chemo for nearly 5 mo, then banned from ttc for a year. And as I'm now followed up on for the rest of my life, also can't give blood apparently. So 2 mc post mistlechick both overshadowed with the 'is it coming back, how am I going to cope with a toddler and treatment' spectre - particularly as hormones didn't settle down for 3 months. Not what you are lead to believe when you start ttc. Apparently odds were something like 1:100 for a reoccurance - but that didn't sound good to me when it started at 1:20,000 for getting it in the first place.

Unis - hope the birthday present is worth ignoring the shed for!

Very disappointed with mistlechick's report. Lots of 'interrupts' and 'doesn't concentrate' etc. What he's missing is inspirational teaching. Frankly, I had hoped that he would have been inspired this year, but apparently they're keen on ticking the boxes - even though they theoretically have more freedom. Only a year to to go Junior School where everyone says he will blossom.

oh BUM CMOT, thats not teh best of news.
Mary- GO on, race.... Whats to lose apart from your dignity... Oh wait, dignity, that san important thing really isn't it. Oh, maybe don;t race then.

Hello all. I am coming to you live from Mexico City where I have been stranded due to the best efforts of tropical storm Arlene which is currently buffeting Tamaulipas. I flew here for a seminar event yesterday and was supposed to be home this afternoon. Instead I am at the cheapest hotel I could fin nearish to the airport being fed up. Fingers crossed I can fly out on the early plane tomorrow morning.

Oh no, Catita. Have some virtual Scotch and some twiglets. Shall we beam Mellors over to you to rub your shoulders, too?

much sympathy Cat, that must be grim. NMBs on their way with one twiglet each and a book of puzzles one page at a time.