The moving castle tea room touches down for the 29th time

[UniS]

Welcome to the tea room. Open to those with one child and those with more and maybe some with none ( hi dave the trucker).

This time we are heading to the mists and mellow fruitfulness of Autumn in a moving castle with a mind of its own. The roaring fire is maintained by magic and Mellors the gardener handles wine and spirits along with massage duties.

The first rule of the tea room is this
No fisticuffs.
The second is this
Put the kettle on for and help yourself to a

Pretty sure small children and logic don't meet up for quite a while!!

We had a spectacular thunderstorm tonight and DS took it into his head to be afraid of thunder (for the first time) so I made up a story about sky giants, using big flashlights to find the rocks to throw at the other sky giants, and the rocks hitting each other. It worked - he was then happy to watch the lightning and wait for the big crashes of thunder. There are times when logic is unhelpful

UniS - that all sounds terribly active - I really ought to do some of it! .

Serp - hope your Interesting Times aren't too Chinese, iyswim and that you are coping. Feel free to offload if you have a spare few mins and the need.

Hope all sickly people feel well soon and all tired people are getting enough sleep.
I'm not - can't seem to get it right - if I go to bed early because I'm tired, I wake up in the middle and then can't get back to sleep; if I stay up until I'm really tired, then sometimes I overshoot and get a "second wind", end up staying up too late and wake up tired through not enough sleep.

ohhh tacos

Thank you. I had a graze box today. was quite nice, but not sure they are worth paying for. This was a free trial.

Sponsored ride passed off peacefully. no accidents, no one got lost and we had cream tea with a vicar at the end. We took the 15 miles at a very sedate pace. Boy managed teh whole lot, tho he was pretty tired by the end. Assuming all the pledges come in we should have raised over 500 quid.

Brilliant news Amber!
I look forward to you being about for decades..... Here. Have my hay pile to celebrate!

UniS - glad thatyou are recovering from your fall, and that the Unicycling is going well. I hope the sponsored cycle is a huge success.

Serp I hope that life is not too interesting.....

Greetings to all!
I don't seem to be dropping by very much at the moment - and with an OU course to do, I think I am likely to be a rare bird of passage.....

(But I am sure that I will bring you all birthday cake in a couple of weeks! My half century....makes me sound like a cricket score )

Thanks, Donki!

::Thinks that as it's Saturday night we ought to have some too::

Personally, I think custard creams go with nothing, but that's just a foible of mine. Besides, normal rules don't apply in the tea room, do they?

Yummmmmm, tacos and fixings... yes please... and custard creams...

Unis - well done on the bike race. We are investigating bikes for DH and me but haven't quite taken the plunge - I think it will be our (whisper) Christmas presents. Do you have a fundraising website? Can you PM me with the charity/details as I will happily support anyone who cycles 15 miles!

We are back from holiday! Small Bean has freckles and looks gorgeous. Today was a write-off as all of us were tired and grumpy after getting home at 3am. I picked about 4kg of tomatoes this afternoon so just wondering what to do with them. Suggestions on a postcard please...

And yes, - lots of it!!!

Does anyone remember having a song that reminded them of a holiday? Here is mine for this holiday...

I feel a bit (Tea Room Special).

Just curious, if you were to receive a "breakfast basket" containing homemade granola (which can be used as a hot or cold cereal or in yogurt) with a jar of homemade jam and a jar of honey would you be pleased?

Scout - if someone went to the trouble of making me a "breakfast basket" I would be delighted.

I would love that breakfast basket. But why do you feel , Scout?

I'm thinking of changing some of my Christmas pudding/mincemeat/mulled wine gifts to breakfast baskets since some of the people we won't see until January and who wants all of the above in January?

I think I ate too much. Case of eyes bigger than my stomach. Now that I'm hungry again I think I'm sometimes trying to make up for lost time.

ya eyes is bigger n your belly scout..... Hope you feel less soon.

bean - I'd love to give you a URL but as Pcc tres is a bit about the concept Its not set up yet. If you would like to do teh old fashioned snail mail version... PM me. Our Church roof is leaking and the lead is soooo old and perished theres no more patching possible in some areas. Big grant application is in, once we hear back from them we will know how much more we have to find.

Tomorrow we chill ( a bit) and collect bike/ unis from friend with van and help build a "pram" for next weekends fun n games, a fancy dress pub crawl pram race.

Can I top up your any one? or are we entering hot chocolate territory?

scout- breakfast basket! yes, I'd be very happy to recieve something as generous as that. I have a mate who gave people chutney ( home made) last year. anther did fudge. I made cookies. suitable level of gifts for friends I feel.

Gosh Scout you make me feel so inadequate. And by that I mean I am very impressed that a) you are planning for Christmas and B) yet again are making people lovely stuff. I barely manage cards and those are on-line ones.

ooh Scout, hope you feel less full by now!
What exactly is granola? I have never worked it out. If I knew then I'd be better placed to answer your question - but certainly homemade jam and honey would be welcomed!

bean - tomato chutney? A gallon of homemade pasta sauce that you can freeze for later? tomato soup, ditto?

UniS - brava for raising so much money and cycling that far! (it might not be that far for you but it is for me )
Am surprisingly (the real one) at your fancy dress pub crawl pram race - that's the sort of thing I'd love to do!

Custard creams - I used to like them, dunked in coffee. Now I partake of neither. Nor tacos for that matter. Hey ho.

Peeing down with rain here. Not complaining - we needed it, it hadn't rained for too long. It can stop tomorrow though!

I've made croissants. They're a bit overdone but they taste fine. Any takers??

Mmm, thank you for the croissant Amber. Have they given you a radiotherapy start date yet ? I guess you'll be battling into your nearby city everyday for it, which will be a drag unless their parking has improved

Granola is like a baked muesli Thumb - so you get crunchy cluster bits.

Had a lovely day yesterday - ds and best friend started practicing their jumping position properly, then bestfriends mum and I wanted to go to an outlet sale and the kids were really well behaved. Went back to their house, sat in the sun, gossiped and drank tea for 2 hours while children played with the dogs, and then bestfriends dad came home from work with someone who is going to replace a window for him, and he is a professional hawker and had the birds in his car ! So we had an impromptu meeting with a 4 month old red tail x and a peregrine falcon

Nope, no start dates yet - seeing Mrs Consultant on Monday afternoon to discuss that and the herceptin (and the heart testing to make sure I can have herceptin at all). It'll be a trek through heavy traffic both ways every day, and trying to coax Flora the (t)rusty Land Rover into their 'height-challenged' crowded hopeless car park, yes. I'm tempted to whip out my high vis jacket and helmet and park up on the building works site there every day instead

Hurrah re the lovely day yesterday, CMOT! I so love watching falconry displays and/or meeting the birds in question.

Building site parking def sounds like a plan to me

sounds like a blissfull day CMOT. glad you had a good one.

This morning I have made 4 robin hood hats. and supervised boy making a rocket ship from scraps of felt - he really likes using teh sewing machine but does need someone sat next to him keeping an eye.

CMOTD - that sounds lovely! Am very of your impromptu with the birds, I am a big fan of birds of prey.

amber - I also think the building site parking sounds good!

UniS - wow to your creative output - I wish I had the application to carry out all those things! I have roped myself into setting up a spider-making activity at playgroup just prior to Hallowe'en, using pipecleaners, furry balls and googly eyes - that's about my limit!

Wow, UniS. As ever, I bow down before your craft maven-ness.

.