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.

3 hrs sleep

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Oh dear Amber - rest today eh ?

I like the Dove Farm penne pasta :)

If 'rest' inclues being at work and then going on to a charitable event later, yes.

I agree wholeheartedly on the suggestion to try something to fiddle with. I have suggested it to his current teachers - who are sharing the role of class teachers, and they said that there was someone that looked at special equipment and stuff and that they would try it. MC was told by the TA that only babies had something to fiddle with so that's that. Have they tried it? No. Have they looked into the special cushions you can get that also might help? No. I asked whether his double jointed thumbs were affecting his pencil grip as I thought it looked rather peculiar - well they've all got funny pencil grips at this stage, so no. He's reversing some numbers and letters - again, this is a problem for us to deal with at home apparently - is there any thought of dyslexia - I very much doubt that its crossed their mind to even consider it or try ways to get him to write them the correct way round.

I do sympathise with the need to not put one child's needs above the needs of the rest of the class... however, I just have the impression that they're just not enthusing and making things as interesting as they might be.

To some extent I think its a shame that some of the old discipline has gone out of the system. I think that MC would actually respond quite well to be being sent out of the room to stand in the corridor for 5 mins when he's been interrupting etc. However, the interrupting thing is still, apparently, something that we have to deal with at home so that he's better in school - although he gets pulled up and told off for interrupting and therefore doesn't do it at home - so I'm really not sure how to stop him doing it at school when I'm not there.

Yes, they keep on saying he's bright but he's not achieving what he's clearly capable of. Frankly, I think if we're paying £££££ they ought to be working a bit harder on working out how to get through to him and bring it out. Reading extra school reading books at home which are the wrong level won't do it.

Sorry, rant over. anyone?

Wow, MT - they're really not taking any proactive action at all, are they? If you are paying for it then I think you should definitely be getting more help from them! Am quite disgusted on your behalf, actually. :(

I carry a tangle therapy toy - great fun.

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Amber, those look really cool. I might get him one anyway as its the sort of thing he'd like fiddling with in any case.

I know that he can appear to be completely in his own little world looking and fiddling with something when you're talking - and at the end you ask him what you've said and he can spout it all out like squeezing a sponge... If only they could get that to work at school.....

I had to take knitting into my computer studies lectures in my first year at uni - if I didn't I feel asleep . I could just knit under the counter of the lecture theatre without it being apparent and it kept part of my brain active enough that I could actually listen to the lecture as well

Anyone interested in the ADHD "expert" who has been taking vast sums of money from Big Pharma companies for his research? I've started a thread on it but no one seems to caaarrrrrrrre..

Amber - OOOoooooooooo!! love those. :)

Gosh, I never knew there were SOOO many tangles now. We had one 13 years ago, eventually so many pieces broke it was too short to be fun.

Re paying... I know that its not everyone's choice. And its not something that I want to make a big deal about etc - so normally don't mention etc. I do think that they probably cope better with MC than a non-fee paying school mainly in terms of class sizes. However, part of me wonders whether if we'd been in a standard school we'd have had the educational psychologist in by now and possibly have something concrete to work on.

Part of the choice is because I was desperated unhappy in the nice little village school I went to - to the extent I was getting headaches that made me hit my head on the radiator - aged 5 - was moved to a private school - wasn't ideal but it was better. Dh started having behavioural issues aged about 8 in the nice little school in Cambridge - was moved to Kings and they stopped. So, we decided that we'd go down the private route if we possibly could and hope that it was the best option for MC.

Hi everyone Thanks for the lovely welcome

I'm a student nurse Thumbwitch, currently taking a years maternity leave. I've just had a lovely baby girl 11 days ago.

Think I'll just have a and soak up the atmosphere for a bit

::passes over just the right sort of and encouraged NurseSunshine to put her feet up and get some much needed rest::

Welcome NurseSunshine :)

ooo, a little baby! How lovely :)
Mind you, one of my RL friends () has a 2mo little baby girl, who is still tiny - she still isn't up to the birthweight of any of the babies of one of my other friends here! She's very cute but has silent reflux, and sleep and attachment issues. I like holding her - she's so light! And cute and the living spit of her mum!

It's damn cold here again - we're going through the worst chilly snap so far this year, apparently - and it's had some stiff competition! DH has boogered off up north for work, it'll be a touch warmer up where he is, I think.
It's nice to feel that I didn't completely waste time and cargo space bringing my winter clothes out here though

LCT is 100% better! Spent the morning running around the park, climbing things, swinging things, being a boy!

Oooh, hot chocolate, don't mind if I do...

Er sorry Thumbwitch, my baby is gigantic. She was 10lb5 at birth! Dunno how the hell she fit in me. She almost didn't fit out though!

Glad LCT is on top form. Love that you call him lower case tee as well

Lumme!!

Did you have a bit of a rough delivery then? Is that how JM knows you, from the ragged lady bits thread? JM is prone to over-sharing very open about her horrendous experience [wants to do a but it seems wrong when talking about the hideousness of ladybits shredding]

Err thumb, my darling, I think if you want to waste time and search the last half-dozen threads or possibly more, I have completely refrained from oversharing after being pulled up on it being made aware of my tendency to do so.

So there :o

But yes, I met NurseSunshine on that thread and thought she needed some TLC of the Tea Room variety :)

I am interested in your ADHD thread but have just woken up after yet another crap night's sleep so will need much more coffee before being able to say anything not moronic. I'd like to shoot for halfway intelligent but there may not be enough coffee in the world for that.

Mistle, I'm really :( for MC that his school is putting forth so little effort. How feeble of them.

Amber - sit down, please. Now. Rest. Please. Thank you. :)

'Lo. Must get more coffee.

JM - !
And are you aware that you can strike out entire sentences now with just one set of around the lot? you can see the difference between your strike-out and mine - mine goes through the spaces as well, in yours, each individual word is struck out, so I am deducing that you did each word separately - of course, I could be completely wrong and you may tell me off for interfering unnecessarily but if you didn't^ know it's bloody useful!

at not enough coffee in the world... but :( re not enough sleep. What's causing that?

Nursesunshine - snap on birthweight. But mistlechick got jammed... Mind you, he was never a 'chubby' baby, despite the size - he was just solid. I was SO glad of having a decent nursing cushion as I'd never have managed to hold him up all the time without it - and it made it so much more comfortable. Never wore newborn size, only fitted in 0 - 3 for a month - and into 6 - 9 at 4mo.... He's 6 and now into size 7 and 8 clothes, although he did go through quite a signfiicant period of being more average height for his age. He has also just bought his first adult baseball cap - its adjustable and he does have it adjusted down, but it doens't look remotely too big for him.

Yup unfortunately that is where I met JM. Unfortunately that we both needed to be there, I mean.

Mistle, yup babynurse got stuck as well and then my cx stopped which didn't help. Thankfully everything turned out ok but there it was all a bit horrible and scary for a while.
I've been wondering how big she'll be in later life. She is like alittle milk drinking machine and gaining weight at a rate of knots!

I went and had a little squiz at the thread, NurseS - sounds very Ouch! :(
Hope you start to recover from it soon.

Hello all. Welcome NurseS: I hope you are being able to rest a bit and get over all you went through. It sounds awful.

House-hunting and school-hunting in Mexico City at the mo. The prices are dreadful (I live in cheap provincial land here) but I'm perserving.