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.

I think my favorite glass is a pint glass -- you can drink anything from it!

Pickings? Is this some Anglo-French idiom? ::dim:: I am quite well but struggling with my Aged Ps.

How is the beautiful Milk? And how are you?

Can I borrow Mellors for a quick rub down in teh ( clean ) potting shed please. Been a tiring two days setting up power for a festival. Lots of walking across a field carrying heavy stuff.

But I did bring you all back some hula hoops . not the eating kind... SO we can all get that festival hippy vibe over the weekend.

Oooh. I'd love to go to a festival. As well as the hula hoops,

Mwah ! Mwah!

Oh dear Maud, it it just general agedness problems ?

Sigh. General agedness combined with an unwillingness to take sensible and reasonable options but instead to dump it all on me delegate the problems to their oldest child.

Oh dear, its so hard when they just won't listen to reason

I went for a hair cut and so did ds today. Ds was not well behaved. Although the hairdresser did end up squirting him with quite a bit of water. Both haircuts look good despite that though!

That's more like it!

I have been getting very frustrated with trying to find someone to practice talking Spanish with. I never seem to be able to meet up with anyone elso on my OU course - either I can't get to on-line sessions, or nobody else turns up. My SiL is always to busy, The local (Leeds) Spanish conversation group is at logistically impossible times. Grrrr. (Gosh!, that is a strange noise for a Donki, or perhaps I should say strange for a Burro)

So Poi dancing is just the thing!

Mistle - I bet you both look very smart! I always think that the YD looks older when he has had a hair cut.

Would typing in spanish help Donki ? Maybe you could find spanish speakers here to chat to

I don't really have any poi moves, but have loved it since seeing a very impressive French group fire-dancing at a son et lumiere thing.

Could you establish a MN Spanish group, Donki?

mc likes putting wax in the top of his hair and then making it all spiky... seems to be getting a bit more of my curl so there's quite a bit of character in it...

I can type in Spanish until the cows come home - although it gets very repetitive due to a shortage of vocabulary, unless I bury myself in the dictionary (which I often do - I can spend hours with a dictionary [geek emoticon]). Having someone to have a typed conversation with would be helpful, because it would be more motivation that yet another paragraph with no "audience". It is like talking to myself.
What I really lack is speaking practice. I have a couple of films, 21 episodes of Tintin and dozens of podcasts for listening practice. But speaking? Talking to someone is what I find hardest, because you have to think much faster.
I shall try a MN group - you never know!

although I shall be away over half term...

boy, after a day on teh beach in particular, has fluff hair. no wax required , it stands bolt up right and looks very sweet and fluffy.

I now have clean hair, which is nice, if bit damp. washed lots of diesel and dust out.

::Sniffs the air:

Ah yes, UniS's characteristic parfum de diesel. The Girl is keen to have her hair cut short, but it has to wait until after the next ballet exam, as it has to be worn in a bun for that.

Oh Maud - thanks for asking...Milk is magic - she made me Mummy word jam at school... Sweet idea... They filled a jam pot with little pieces of paper with poetic and kind words for their Mummies "My princess" "you are super" "my angel" - etc very simple and very cute!!!! And me? I walk the streets of Paris to the rhythms of 70s diva music 80percent of the time and 20percent of the time I find myself whistling radiohead - iyswim - but we are getting back in our feet...

I am sorry to hear about your ap s ... I live in denial that my own parents Will stay forever young... and SO do they

Milk is lovin' being a Daisy (rainbow)... I ordered her, her uniform yesterday - it is a little blue wastecoat with the American flag on it and she must earn her petals and journey badges. There are seven in her troop and they meet monthly. All the parents seem to stay to pitch in with organising and chin-wag and join in the fun - so it is quite a social event for all. Milk has a special Leadership journey book and she is insisting on working on it daily!!!!

Aww. Bless you both.

hurrah for enthusiastic daisying. long may her petals last.

If the pack of daisies go out for a walk, are they in a dasiy chain?

just coming in to salute The Joke nice work UniS!

We have only 2 Beaver packs here, so no joy for OxBoy - but with my finbar saunders mind perhaps no bad thing and OxBloke spends most time he is here building camps/ lighting fires with stick etc anyway so perhaps the lack is not so great...
am with Mistle and the ba humbug jubilee DH and UniS on teh inability to answer qustions (in my case - when are you up the Limpopo next, shall be book a ticket so its not ten squillion million pounds when you fly?) no answer, and it just sound like I'm shoving him away!

I have stealth revenge - tomorrow night my our house will be decked with bunting/ flags and I'm making Fancy Cakes

we love Abba too - Oxboy favourite is Gimme Gimme Gimme a Man After Midnight - sung loudly and endlessly

love Toddler's family finding

Good morning...

Good night all (10:30 pm here).