tea room 36 - Teh Alpine Chalet

[UniS]

Welcome to the Tea rooms newest incarnation. A cozy log cabin with a roaring log fire, comfy chintz sofas and a dedicated man about the house, our Butler, Mellors. Out of the windows you can see sparkling white snow gently drifted up under the green Christmas trees and bright blue skies. Children can all be packed off to play healthy outdoor stuff while we stay snug n warm in here with our mulled wine, tea,artisan hot chocolate and other beverages served in mugs, glasses or buckets.

The usual rules apply - no fisticuffs. And no messing with the aspidistra.

Cuppa and a gingernut I think is in order... and 'quick finishing tax return' thoughts winging their way to you.

Tis done. finished and submitted. Hurrah.

Bad news is that the friend who was going to pop in for tea has had a rubbish night with ill child. Good news is , Tax return is thus finished a little earlier so I shall go and knit n natter this afternoon.

Quiche for lunch as no bread till I bake more ( which will be done at tea time, we're having pizza)

Good call on the gingernuts MT.

Hows MC finding year 4 and cubs etc. boy has just started going to Beavers ( cubs is full for time being) and finds it all rather tiring.

The good thing about DS's cubs is that it runs after school - so I pick him up at 5.30 so its not a late night at all. Generally I think he's enjoying it quite a bit - went to a 'trading post' event yesterday and they did quite well so he was pleased at that. He's got an event at the outdoor centre in May - I'm girding my loins to go and 'help' with some of it as, from the sound of it, that is required and might be the best way of ensuring general safety (akela and baloo are quite elderly). So I think that might be 'fun' But its not too far away and won't be the £££ that the London trip would have cost!

Well done UniS!

MT - A major disadvantage of DS's Scouts is that it finishes so late that he struggles in school next day. This is not helping his anxiety/dislike around school - but I'm hoping that he will get used to the one late night a week, and the scout leaders did make an effort to make it more accesible for him last week.

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Not sure how boy will cope with Beavers in eth summer if he carrys on with bike club, one late night a week is hard, two is a nightmare. I think he will prefer bike club to beavers/ cubs but who knows.

All of this Scouting talk reminds me that I need to contact the BSA group that said SmallBoy could join. If they got their Lion Den up and going SB can join when he's in kindergarten but since they go by school year (and not age) I don't know if it would be this September or 2015 (if in the States he'd be the youngest in his class if he started in 2014 or the oldest in his class if he started in 2015 and most districts in the States are flexible with the start ages of kindergarteners and you don't have to skip kindergarten and go straight into first grade if you delay entry). Knowing what my brother did in Tigers and Weeblos and Cubs I think SB will enjoy it as long as the leaders don't ask for too much coloring in (he HATES coloring in) but if they do all of the other fun things making things, cooking, running around/games, fires, being outside, etc. -- he'll be a happy SmallBoyScout. Then again I have said I would stay and help with the Den/Pack so I'm sure I can steer things so there's not too much coloring in.

Yay for UniS and her completed forms but boo for still-missing keys.

Swimming day today hurrah! Half-an-hour where I get to sit down and talk to other adults with no pre-schoolers under foot double hurrah!

I feel like singing and dancing around like a fool like my teenage self but there's no where for me to go and do it so I'm just going to play videos instead.

You play scout.

I picked MC up from the university where DH had a rehearsal yesterday - as I was waiting for them to get out I was looking around and saw a uni cycle chained to the entrance railings... not something you see everyday! I just hope they weren't cycling about with an instrument on their back as well.

Be alright if it was a piccolo or something like that. Trumpet etc I think I'd carry the case in one hand rather than in my back pack, but a big enough back pack would be OK. Or maybe it was the conductor, a uni would be fine if all your transporting is a baton and a score.

any one flooded out yet. come and shelter in the tea room and drink tea.

We had rain overnight. We're currently in the middle of a sunny spell that's only meant to last an hour or so and it's meant to rain again until tomorrow. It's very windy, too. I hope SB's hanging bird feeder (currently hanging from a fence post around the wildlife area across the street) survives.

Are there any breakfast rolls/muffins/donuts? I'm a bit peckish this morning.

I think that there's something cinnamony around Scout. We've just got wet here... lawn a quagmire but not much surprise.

Bah, while certainly not flooded like lots of the country we are definitely soggy. I miss the summer. It's so windy, and coming in at such an angle, that out mailbox flap thing in our door keeps getting caught and banging. Scares me every time.

Bah, the roof (slates) blew off the top woodshed and smashed the roof ( poly carbonate) of the middle woodshed. , DH has restacked the wood to keep it as dry as poss but I have roof repairs to do tomorrow or soon. House roof OK AFAIK, but will be doing inspection in daylight tomorrow. Work roof is leaking in an assortment of spots, landlord came and inspected today, with builder in tow, maybe he will be fixing it ...

UniS - good luck with the roofing - hope it goes as smoothly as possible, and that nothing's missing on your house roof. I wonder how long landlord will take to sort out roof at work?

My next door neighbour departed in an ambulance yesterday morning - I spoke to her cousin, who is a lot younger than her, and I believe the only relative she has - he's about 2 hrs away. No one has phoned him, and the careers she normally has in haven't been in touch... Bit worrying. She (ndn) remembers our house being built in 1926 - and when they moved in they had a cess pit and gas lighting - now all on mains etc of course, and the stream running down the road has all been piped in etc.

Another wet and blustery weekend. Bah. Though, from the sounds of it, things are a lot worse at home. Much rather have their snow than our rain, though!

We are relatively lucky here - no flooding anyway.

Our lawn has almost submerged - but that's just a high water table...

sandbags round the door at today's customer. snow at home yesterday. wonder what I'll see each morning as its been so variable recently.

Oh dear- the boy has made a valentines card for one of his classmates. The one who I was told ( by another girl in the class at a birthday party) has a crush on boy.

Argggggh - just hope girls father doesn't take it badly.

cos hes a BIG tall farmer.

This time last year, DS got a crush on a girl he went to holiday club with... Every sentence had her name in it and he was clearly head over heels... But he's not seen her since so she's been forgotten again!

The YD says sadly that S (A girl he was friendly with at playgroup, in nursery, and reception) is still his friend, but she doesn't like him any more....
He had such grand plans for getting married to her.

phew. valentines card delivered to girls tray and no fall out so far. half term has started. boy is deep in Lego this morning.