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.

Wish I could suggest something helpful, Donki, ... am impressed that you can translate your professional patience to home - I can't! Tiredness does sound like a likely contributory factor, especially at this point in the term. Wriggle just had a total meltdown tonight because she couldn't make a sky as beautiful as the real one (using a blue tarpoline decorated with bath towels - it was going to be a suprise for me ... ) I find that only holding her helps her to eventually calm down.

poor you and YD you sound rather wonderful but I wonder if it is a bit too much insight when he is tired? Oxboy is usually really rational and good to talk to and through problems but there is a point in the evening when I have realised that more talk just makes it all too much - he has topped out so to speak so I just "baby him" with no choice, no discussion, just moving through all things to bed...would this help?

vicarious eaton mess eating here please

CMOT sorry not to have responded to your suggestion for holiday fun, we're currently battling The Pox so have been lying low...Weymouth sounds brill

JM your Classic Thread has made me laugh as few things have this week. Sniggering on the train is not my usual look thanks. I felt oddly proud as if all the posts were somehow Tea Room Approved!

Missed the reference to Weymouth - when are you there? We are very close.

Cmot camping there next week unserp

week of the 25th - will be odd as my gps lived in Wyke for many years, but haven't been there since they left

odd but maybe familiar? I don't think much has changed. we had a great week down there a few years ago, near chesil beach...

Oxeye, are you going to the old alma mater's celebrations this month, or are they not happening? did you do the "fun" run? That's the only event I got an email about. Seemed a bit odd...

Moaning.

Sorry not been around; feeling really rough. I hope everyone is gearing up for a lovely weekend. I'll try and catch up later.

Hope you feel better soon, tee...

Wriggle's birthday! We painted a 6 foot cardboard parrot yesterday.

Happy Birthday Wriggle!
what are you going to do with a 6' cardboard parrot??!

Find a 12' cardboard Pirate, of course! [hgrin]

I am feeling better today, thanks.

Happy Birthday Wriggle!

Why are the parrots 6' high? Because they aaaarrrr

Bonne fête, Wriggle!

Just wrote a long pm to cmot and then realised that since she knows where we live, she would have suggested a meet up had she wanted one. Likewise, I suppose, our sudden availablity on Thursday. Think WRiggle and I might go to the seaside if it's fine, with a fishing net.

Happy Birthday, Wriggle!

How are you feeling, Tee?

Maud, have Brownies finished for the term/year? A fellow Guide Guider, who also does Rainbows, has some new challenge badges she's going to send me -- I'll send them on when I get them if you're interested.

Was overly annoyed/frustrated at Tiddlers today. Not at TS, he was good despite the exhaustion I could see in his eyes. Some kid tried to pick TS's nose today. hahahaha. The look on TS's face was priceless. I did stop the kid and gently tell him it wasn't nice to do that to his friends and the mother apologized for it. Wasn't bothered by that kids do things like that but the lack of other parents watching their kids, cleaning up the supplies the kids tipped out, etc. I ended up picking up loads of craft supplies and other random things that toddlers just pulled out and dumped so other kids didn't fall over them, slip, etc.

MrScout was asked if he'd be available to go to the States for 2-4 months for work. Don't know if he will or not but am getting stupidly excited about the idea/prospect. We'd probably go with him and TS & I would go visiting family/friends (TS's Godmother lives in the state MrScout would be working, so we'd visit her then go fly to my parents' home). I know the likelihood of it happening is probably low but I'm so stupidly hopefully about it. I think I'm just really homesick (more for people & food then the act of being home) and frustrated with real life at the moment. Someone, please, slap some sense into me!

God, I'm not going to slap any sense into you! If DH was given the chance of 2-4m in England, miniT and I would be there like a shot!! But you mean keep you on the ground, don't you, don't let you get carried away as it might not happen. Well - ok. It might not happen. But if you're having a bad time at the mo, can you not just go for a few weeks with TS?

Have you had your results back yet, btw? everything sorted ok?

Yes, keep me on the ground. I shouldn't get this stupidly excited until I know it's going to happen. But I'm slowly starting to feel hungry again and I really want comfort food from home -- it's been a long few months/years and I want comfort food and hugs from my parents.

Thumb Well, I had my penultimate appointment last week and, as usual, if I hear nothing it's good news. Now I wait six months, until mid-January. I have an appointment for a blood test to see if everything worked. Fingers crossed. It's been working since the first full MOT back in November (three months after I started treatment) so doctor is optimistic (I also have a lot of factors working in my favor female, under 40, good health/fitness, thin, etc). Thanks for asking. Fingers crossed! Doctor did say, as well, it would take me a few weeks to feel normal again -- I haven't felt normal since 2008 so I don't know what it feels like! Hahahhaaha

Hurrah, scout is feeling hungrey again. Well done scout.

Unis rushes over with virtual smores, peanut butter cups and trix.

I know lots of people who would have loved to have lost approx 30-35 lbs without trying but it wasn't a good look for me.

Hurrah, Scout!!

::sets out and lewd muffins for the afternoon::

I don't think I've ever felt normal! [hgrin] What's it like?

Had a weirdy mood swing today - felt quite happy and upbeat this afternoon and then had a sudden crash into extreme irritability. Period started yesterday so not PMT. Most odd. . Ended up shouting at poor miniT because he just wouldn't leave me alone - when he's ill he's a 24h Klingon and I just got fed up of being clutched and pawed at. :( I apologised though, poor little soul looked so sad and wobbly-lipped and I felt awful. Still, I think the antibiotics are working cos he's sleeping much better tonight, finally!

Lewd muffins, hey - they look rather special! I think it's the cunningly placed chocolate buttons... yum!

and teh chocolate sugar strands are interestingly placed.

Oh those rolls.... where to look?!?!