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.

15 dozen hot cross buns were consumed in church today... many of them by the choir and a few more by the orchestra!

The basket is full and "hidden."

hot cross bun and chocolate orange bread n bitter pudding was pretty good.

home time tomorrow afternoon.

We're using chocolate orange as a post ear drops mouth stopper... Yesterday it took DH an hour to get one set in - even though MC said that it didn't hurt like he remembered - it was just cold. It was a bit quicker this evening...

We've been into the Dales today - nice walk with a tea shop in the middle. Mistlehound rather worrried by the sheep (which is a good thing) - she was much happier when she got a run after some pheasants (which of course took off) when she was able to be off the lead in one sheep-free field. She's absolutely exhausted by the experience though. And she's clearly never been over styles before - the first one she was eventually lurched over a nearby gate by DH (a lot of struggling). The second one she managed to get up it and ended on top of DH's shoulder for a lift down. And she managed the rest on her own! Currently modelling 'dead dog' position in the 'yoga for dogs' manual - body on the sofa with legs stretched out and head hanging off, nose heading towards floor...

Hi everyone!

My last post disappeared, I've just realised ! It was the one where I assigned my DCs a nn each, I like the way, on here, your children have proper nns.

Happy Easter!

Walk in the Dales with tea shop stop sounds bliss, MT.

Donki, hope you're feeling better and enjoying your trip with YD.

We had our annual Easter Egg Hunt at my sisters yesterday. Lovely day spent with nephews who we see far too little of, even though we aren't far away, we don't get together as much as we should.

Funny seeing these great towering 6ft+ boys rummaging around for chocolate eggs. We pretend that they and my eldest do it to keep up the tradition for my younger ones, but we all know it's for the love of chocolate!

Nice couple of hours spent cycling round the park afterwards, followed by one of my nephews having a sleepover at ours last night. We eventually bought Minecraft for MisfitBoy (8yrs) yesterday, so it was very handy having nephew here to show him the ropes.

Hope you are all enjoying the bank holiday weekend.

Forgot to hand out chocolate eggs, rabbits, hot cross buns, and extra chocolaty chocolate carrots..how rude!

Mellors has been out in the tea room garden setting an easter egg hunt for out children ( or is it for us) . I am trying to occupy the nmbs so they don't all rush out there and steal the eggs.
The formation frying pan wielding is getting quite good and the war Cry's are becoming more coordinated.

Ooh, lovely!

Thank you everybody and a very happy Easter!

::scoffs own weight in chocolate::

I've been awake since 5:45 thanks to SmallBoy. We have already had a good go at the chocolate egg he earned at the National Trust Egg Hunt yesterday. He's currently on the floor with some Brio, using the whole Warren as a tunnel and trying to get the electric (battery operated) diesel train to plow through the tunnel of bunnies. Needless to say the bunnies are winning.

Misfitless, what names had you come up with for your brood? SB has had many names since I joined the tea room -- BabyScout, ToddlerScout (TS) and now SmallBoyScout (SmallBoy or SB). I suspect he'll become BoyScout when he joins the Boy Scouts later this year or next. I'm not sure I can call him BS, though (I certainly didn't when he was BabyScout).

SB is very excited for his cousins to come over later this afternoon. I, on the other hand, wish I could go and hide.

Wishing you strength and forbearance, Scout.

Thanks, L&V, I think I might need it now that we've had a thunderstorm and the ground is saturated so we can't even go outside for the egg hunt.

boy is boy online as I chose not to use his name on line. I has slipped into using boy to refer to him in Real life too which one of my colleagues finds odd.

UniS, MrScout regularly calls SB "Boy" in real life as a term of affection. I call SB Small Boy in RL, too, and it stared back when he was still ToddlerScout in the Tea Room. I don't think it's odd at all. I know someone who calls her daughter Mrs Small (for Small Girl/youngest member of the family).

SmallBoy has had way too much chocolate today. Not a huge amount by any means but more in a day than he's used to. Plus he's tired. It's a lethal combination.

Way too much chocolate consumed here, too, but it has made mine giddy.

And to think there's another egg hunt again tomorrow at my Sil's...groan! It will be fun, and I'm looking forward to getting together, but please, no more chocolate!

As for nns, well, I know it's cringey, and but can my eldest be PFB? She thinks the whole DH/DC/Dsis acronym thing on mn is really sad, so I call her PFB to her face now, just to annoy her, so it does seems fitting! She loves the sentiment, of course, just not the acronym!

Next in line would have to be my son, who I've already referred to as MisfitBoy once already, so I will stick with that, I think, perhaps shorted to FitBoy occasionally, quite apt as he is very sporty.

I'm stuck now....PFB has just come in from work, so will plate up her roast and bung it in the microwave for her, while I think of nn 3 and 4!

Shortened to

So, PFB, FB, QG (the Q is for quirky, because she is quite quirky,) and ....struggling now...LM (Little Misfitless.)

Is it OK to post cute things that have been said on here? ... Well I'll give it a go, and if it's a bit not-the-done-thing and just plane boring, be kind enough to let me know and I'll not do it again...

LM has just pointed out to me that she has not done any whinging today! (LM is the kindest, most helpful and thoughtful child, but can be hypersensitive and on a bad day can whinge for England. When she's that way out, one of us only has to look at her with as little as a raised eyebrow, and she'll produce real not fake tears.)

I had actually noticed, and was saying as much to DH last night, that she seems to be coming out the other side. Told her that, yes, DH and I have noticed, and we think it's because she's grown, and is a bigger girl now. "No, it's not that, Mummy...it's because you haven't done anything wrong to make me whinge today!"

I put it down to the chocolate....supplies are getting low, thank goodness we've got another hunt scheduled for tomorrow to replenish our stash!

Someone, please, quick, pass the magic sleeping dust before I lose the plot. Poor SB is so desperately tired and struggling....

Is LM aged 8? coz that sounds very much like an 8 year old barrack room lawyer of my acquaintance. He can argue that black is white and white is black and ist all your fault anyway.

Mucho chocolate consumed . allotment program watched, yummy french macaroons to accompany ( thanks to MiL who distrusts "foreign" food but hosts french exchange students who bring her gifts....) .
Jobs list for tomorrow written. Just counted dinner tickets and not enough to get boy through a week of school, a week in which neither parent is expecting to walk him to school ( he wants to walk the last bit independently these days) . Ho hum, off to investigate parent pay web site now.

........ sleepy dust on its way scout.

If that doesn't work, may I suggest the nmbs frying squad?

LM is 4, UniS (daughter, not son,) though tbh, even I'm getting confused.

Misfitboy is 8, other DDs are aged 6 and 17.

I think I'll revert back to DD/DS.

You have sleepy dust

What does nmbs stand for, UniS?

NMBs are naked Mohawk babies. I can't do a link, but hey arrived a very long time ago on top of a cake and have been perpetrating mischief ever since.

once upon a time a website called cake wreaks had a picture of carrotcake decorated with naked Mohawk babies riding diddy marzipan carrots. It wathe nmbs colonized an early tea room after arriving on some carrot cake. They seem to have grown up a bit and now resemble Nac Mac feegles ( wee free men).

You lot are all completely mad! But in a good way!

Well, these things have accumulated over time. Mellors, the NMBs ...