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Episode 32 - The New Zealand tea room

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ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 14/01/2012 22:06

Well folks, here we are, beside the hot springs of New Zealand.

The tea room (with the customary distressed chintz sofa) overlooks the steaming, bubbling lake. For the bold and sporty, hiking, biking and sky-diving are on offer. Personally, I'm not planning to leave the spa.

Please come and join us for a celebratory drink and conversation ranging from the profound to the profoundly silly. The cardinal rule remains: no fisticuffs.

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CMOTDibbler · 18/01/2012 19:44

JM, I think you are v brave just wanting to be with lots of hippyish pregnant ladies who witter about natural birth when you know only too well what can happen. Enjoy the hotel - much as I dislike being away, I do enjoy spreading out and knowing I will sleep all night with no interruptions.

Brew anyone ?

A bright spot for me atm is that my keloid is def getting paler with the steroid and silicone treatment. Who'd have thought that as I enter my 40's, I'd be having botox and silicone prescribed, but both for my arm And this lot of botox didn't work.

beanandspud · 18/01/2012 20:10

JM - you're not nuts at all. I often feel a bit like that when I am away and will be in the same boat on Sunday. It's lovely getting a night to yourself, a meal, a glass of wine and a chance to read a book in bed in peace but then I feel guilty for almost enjoying not being at home with the boys.

It sounds like a sensible option staying in town though - stick it out, not long to go now?

Good news on your keloid CMOT - Smile at botox and silicon.

Wine anyone? I could do with a massage - I have spent 5 hours in the car today - where's Mellors when you need him?

CMOTDibbler · 18/01/2012 20:25

I feel your pain Bean - I was in the car for 5 1/2 hours yesterday. Next week is a 2 snowy country tour, with my colleague who has 3 children and a stroppy dh

Donki · 18/01/2012 22:26

I've just realised - we are in New Zealand! Perhaps Mellors will visit Justa whilst we are here...

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 18/01/2012 22:29

Eh?

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Donki · 18/01/2012 22:33

Justa was an early habituée of the tea room - she introduced me to it! She is currently in NZ.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 18/01/2012 22:37

Yes, I remember Justa and was sorry when she left the tea room. I didn't know she was in NZ. Are you still in touch with her? Is she still on MN? I haven't seen her about for yonks.

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UniS · 18/01/2012 22:44

I'm sure Mellors will pay Justa a call. Its teh kind of considerate thing he would do. Probadly taking her Thanks and a large Wine. Neither of which she got to enjoy on line.

Donki · 18/01/2012 22:48

She has a mumsnet blog called Green Pastures New.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 18/01/2012 22:50

Oooh, I'll go and have a look. I got a lot from her threads in spirituality & religion.

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Donki · 18/01/2012 22:50

It is listed under SN blogs

Thumbwitch · 18/01/2012 22:54

JM - hope you had a better sleep on your own this time! Glad you got the opportunity to stay in close proximity to your fluff-filled course. Hope you don't get any more triggers but well done for sitting on the ones you did have. ((((hug))))

CMOTD - that's good news about the keloid scar, less good that the botox didn't work.

I know Justa went quiet when there was all that blow up about her job on here; but I think she came back - haven't seen her around very recently though.

I expect Mellors will know where to find her though :)

Made a mistake this morning - thought that the swimming classes started this week but apparently it's next week - so got miniThumb all set to go, endured 15 minutes of "but I don't want to go, Mummy, I don't love swimming any more, I hate it now" and wailing - only to find it wasn't on. Still, better this way round than missing the first week I guess.

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 18/01/2012 23:07

Thank you, Donki, I don't usually do blogs but I'd like to know how Justa is doing and have just been having a read.

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Jacksmania · 19/01/2012 01:52

I remember Justa, there was a huge blow-up about a thread of hers and she sort of ducked down under the radar for a while. I did see somewhere that she was moving to NZ. I hope she's well, won't have time to dive into her blog the next few days.

Two more days. I have to say this is really not what I expected. I expected to be taught how to safely teach a pregnancy yoga class, how to make it fun, and how to teach poses and flows that strengthen pregnant women for giving birth. I didn't expect that there was going to be all this birth stuff (incl movies), and I would really like to know, why???? God willing no-one is going to give birth in my pregnancy yoga class!! And it isn't as if we went into phenomenal anatomic detail (in fact, quite the opposite) about how labour and birth works and what muscles are involved so we could specifically strengthen those, which would at least partly justify why we've spent so much time watching these flippin' movies, and having a midwife and an OB come in and talk to us. Seriously - this isn't doula training, it's pregnancy yoga. Not that you could tell from the course content.
There are any number of things I wish I had known before signing up for this course... for one, that even though Yoga Alliance (the governing body, as it were, for yoga schools and studios, who determine what criteria a course has to fulfill) has now mandated that pregnancy yoga teacher training has to be an 85-hour course (it was 30 hours previously), that this is the first time that any yoga school in BC, or for that matter in Canada, is running an 85-hour course. If I'd known we were going to be the first, I'd have waited. I really never want to be part of a group that is receiving a certain training for the first time. And I also wish I'd known that this course was going to be so heavily weighted towards the more woo-woo style of yoga, which is so not my thing. Argh. But, on the other hand, even if I'd known that, I might have gritted my teeth and gone for it, just to have the 85-hour certification, and be done with it.

Anyway, I'm just venting here, mainly so I don't have to bore poor DH with the umpteenth repetition of why today was another one of the "JM's head is in danger of exploding" kind of days. I just really resent not working for two weeks, and having to pay all kinds of money for this course, to find that I'm getting maybe at the most 30 hours of useful information and 55 hours of fluff. Angry

Ok, done venting, no need to say any more.
Two more days. Repeat after me, "I can do it". Then repeat after me, "where's the wine?????"

Thumbwitch · 19/01/2012 09:43

Ha, JM, I think you have just put your finger on the nub of the issue! Yes, it used to be a 30h course and they've had to make it an 85h course, so 55h worth of "padding" is the result! How bloody irritating for all concerned. Still - once you have the certificate they can't take it off you :)

UniS · 19/01/2012 10:04

Repeats after JM

Yes, you CAN do it

And Wine heres the wine

Scout19075 · 19/01/2012 18:30
Scout19075 · 19/01/2012 18:42

GAH! There not their. Obviously. GAH!

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 19/01/2012 18:53

Yes there are, Scout. It is fully equipped with fluffy blankets, hot water bottles, hot and cold drinks and chocolate. If you want to go for a snuggle, Mellors will tuck you up, put some soothing music on the stereo and rub your feet.

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Scout19075 · 19/01/2012 19:30

In RL about to collect a pizza and have some Wine.

Jacksmania · 19/01/2012 19:42
ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 19/01/2012 22:13

::Sends down a couple of tubes of Tootsie Rolls::

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beanandspud · 19/01/2012 22:29

:: tops up Wine for Scout and adds more hugs ::

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 19/01/2012 22:43

::Lowers some Thanks and a slightly wonky but very beautiful card made by a two year old doing his very best colouring::

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Scout19075 · 20/01/2012 07:31