Episode 33 - The Orangery - Tea anyone?

[mistlethrush]

The tearoom has traveled back to the Orangery for another visit. There are bluebells in the nearby woods, and Mellors has Earl Grey and Lady Grey ready for some excursions. Mellors has, indeed, been overwintering away from Canada for some reason - I think he's been helping Maud out in the garden. There are tulips out in urns outside, and there are a few tables out in the sunny courtyard for use between showers.

Whether you have one child or several, pull up a chair and share a or a . The only rules remains no fisticuffs.

[mistlethrush]

I seem to be the only one at work with just one - everyone else has two or is planning on two, so I know what you mean.

[Scout19075]

Well, as we know SiL has a football team. Friend due next week is about to have number four. But Guiding friend and longtime friends/Godparents are excepting their firsts. I'm so excited and happy for Toddler's Godparents -- they are lovely people and I think will be wonderful parents.

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[excited Mommy]

Toddler went to bed and DIDN'T GET OUT AT ALL even though, after 15 minutes he was still awake and I snuck downstairs.

YAY!!!!

[UniS]

Hurrah

[Scout19075]

He's definitely out. And I'm so excited I could burst!

[oxeye]

Top cat is going to be made into a film!
and today Oxboy found Denis the Menace is a cartoon on CBBC!
we are a happy if slightly square eyed family!

[mistlethrush]

MC has discovered The Beano. Trouble is, the magazines are normally near the start of the supermarket - which means that the rest of the time he has to be guided around the aisles because he's absorbed in reading it.

Denis the menace has changed into something much less hard edged in the comic and the cartoon.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Oh yes. Bloke and I are desperate to see the To Cat film, regardless of whether The Girl wants to go. We've been a Beano household for a couple of years but, oddly, The Girl isn't much interested in Dennis on tv.

[Scout19075]

Second night in a row Toddler's stayed in bed AND we're not even in our own house tonight.

[CMOTDibbler]

Well done that Toddler !

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Yay!

and twiglets all round.

[Scout19075]

Not so good tonight but not as bad as it has been in the past.

[Jacksmania]

Just wanted to say hello. We've all been so ill with colds this week. I had to cancel a full day of patients on Thursday, grrrr. Didn't get out of bed all day. Got our of bed and did too much yesterday. Sincerely regretting it today. I have almost no voice.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Poor you, Jack. Have a medicinal and a lovely chest-clearing massage with Mellors.

[Jacksmania]

A chest massage? Oh well, ok, go on then :o

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

I was actually meaning a back and shoulder massage which might help to open and clear the chest, you saucy minx!

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[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

::hands out fluffy white towels and massage oil to all those in the queue::

[Donki]

For all those with colds. Treat it with caution! It's very effective....

The Bullfinches are back in the garden! They look very exotic with their bright red chests and sooty caps!

[Scout19075]

Can I have a robe, too? And a nice pair of slips.

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Slippers, even.

[Jacksmania]

Oh dear Maud, silly me :o

[Scout19075]

I have even eaten too much this weekend and feel incredibly round.

However, we have finally started Spooks 6 so I am happy.

[Jacksmania]

This cold is trying to kill me. I know it is. I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning and find I've either sneezed myself to death in my sleep (I'll probably find that my head has blown off and is somewhere in the next county) or I've been suffocated by snot or that I've coughed out my lungs and they're lying on top of the duvet waiting for me to figure out how to get them back inside me again.

I'm not exaggerating in the slightest.

At this moment, there is not enough cold medicine in the world.

[mistlethrush]

Ooh JM, hope it goes away soon. Bad colds can be really nasty.