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

Impossible to tell Thumb. Things do take a long time in my line of work; and I do have "contacts" on the inside who I assume would have told me if they had proceeded to the interview stage without me. But as the days drag on, it does seems more and more likely that I am not about to be lucky here.

No Mr. H has no job. We shall try other places for the rest of the year, but then finances will force us back, unfortunately. The is no property market and precious little rental market there at the mo. We have to pay the morgage after all.

Good morning. anyone?

for JM to brighten your day.

to thumb on (finally?) receiving her permanent visa. Been there, done that, know the relief it brings!

[fingers crossed] Catita hears from jobs sooner rather than later.

Good morning! Up at 5am to get train, would be most welcome!

Morning! Social worker comes in an hour!! Better go hoover the hall.

Hi JM,nice to see you again. Sorry to hear about black dog, if it's any help dh had terrible depression for well over a decade but now it is gone completely. I know at the time it is hard to imagine it ever going.

Hi Chablis, welcome! I live in Ireland and have a 4.11 year old ds, LittleDeer. He just started his first year of school, we call it Junior Infants here.

UniS - I always assumed Boy was older than LittleDeer, perhaps nearly 6 I thought, since this is his 2nd year in school. I guess they start school younger in the UK then?

Bean - Where were you off to at 5am?!

Hi Oxeye and Catita!

Morning all. Yes please to

And it looks like Mellors has set up the massage table for all those struggling with life at the moment

Been to mass. Dh came also so at least he knew what to do but they have changed mass responses so even he was lost.

You are having our weather! It was that cold here tonight I had to light the fire!

My apologies - I'm aware that I've done something/said something/not done something right and it's worried/offended some people here. It is never, ever my intention to hurt people, and I would very much like to apologise. Best if I leave both places before I put any more feet in things.

Amber, I just saw you post on the other site - I have no idea what's going on but don't go, we love you - I'm sure whatever it is can be cleared up. You can't leave us!!!!!!

I'm very much like marmite, JM. Some are going to like me, some are going to find me intensely irritating/too weird/too much of a puzzle. I'm going to respect it.

Amber - what are you saying - you haven't done anything in here! Please don't go

But Amber, this is the Tea Room, not MN as a wider place - we know you, have known you for, what is it, three years... we've all said something off occasionally, I've made a giant prat of myself... you can't leave us, please don't!!
I don't know what's wrong, haven't read back, will try to do so now - but whoever is upset with you, could they not just say what's wrong and then it can be resolved?

Apparently they all can't, no. And it's nothing that's visible on this thread.

Amber - I don't know the story but you are one of the nicest people I haven't met (iyswim). Please don't leave the tearoom. Can we help in any way?

"It's nothing that's visible" :(
Do you feel there is prejudice on this thread somewhere?

Thank you but I don't think so. Unless the people concerned want to contact me and tell me what's on their mind, I'm not sure that any of us will know what to do about it.

JM, no, I'm absolutely not saying that there is any prejudice of any sort whatsoever - I've no evidence of that. I think it might be that I am a very very difficult person to understand - very autistic and yet a businesswoman and adviser (thanks to the splendid team that supports me), and people can misunderstand or misconstrue, or listen to people who have done that....and end up with a very wrong set of assumptions. If that makes sense. I'm very very reliant on people manning up to tell me what I've done wrong or not done correctly. When people don't do that and instead do other things, it scares the living out of me. There's no easy way to explain that, because you kind of have to be autistic to know what happens. I'm probably making a rubbish job of explaining this. I love everyone here as a friend so much and I am so sad that something has gone wrong for some of them.

If something has gone wrong, it might be that that says more about them than about you?
BUT I totally understand that if this isn't a safe space for you, you feel you don't want to be here :(

I don't want you to leave though :(

I'm confused! Has something happened in the tearoom Amber? Are you leaving?!

Oh dear. Please don't go amber but I completely understand if this has no longer become a safe space for you.

Littledeer, it's nothing scary for other people, please don't worry. And I doubt that the people concerned realised it's been scary for me either.

I think we all need some .

Mom's just told me she needs to go and get one of her s re-squished. Fingers crossed for a good result. (This runs in the family and I'm soooo far away I'm really hoping it's nothing.)