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.

On Tuesday, after swimming, SB and his friend were playing in the changing room and all of a sudden she sat on the bench next to him and declared, "SB, we're best friends, aren't we?" SB looked at her, thought for a second and said very sincerely, "Yes, we are." And then they scrambled down from the bench to play with their pennies on the floor (they had been playing a rolling/catching/football type game with pennies across the floor before SB stopped to sit on the bench and have a drink).

Ahhh, to be four when friendships were uncomplicated!

At home (elementary) schools have parties for Valentine's Day. Most kids give a card to everyone in their class (little cheap cardstock type cards with cheap little envelopes that never stay stuck). Cards get put into a mailbox and then all of the cards are delivered during the party. I'm going to assume by posts here and around MN today/this week, this sort of thing doesn't happen in the UK? I miss the cheesie little cardstock cards. I used to give them to my Girl Scouts along with a chocolate or lollipop of some sort. I'm thinking of asking my Mom or my sister to pick up a box in the after V-day sales for SB and I to collect at Thanksgiving so he has them for next year.

Is that really the sun I see through my bedroom window?!

We have some sun here - but also some very grey clouds.

yay sunshine here too. family uni are going to go for a bike ride.

Yay! A sunny day here too. Quite unprecedented.

We had a lovely sunny day today too - we delivered mc to grandparents (half way distance) and had a pootle round a NT property at the same time - nice walk in the sun for a change - and snowdrops out in the wild...

Only got one wet foot each cycling through a BIG puddle on our way to take tea at the local castle. Actually boy didn't even get wet socks as his trainers are waterproof, but DH and I were both wearing "proper" cycling shoes which are largely mesh uppers.

Was good to be out on my bike, feeling very unfit tho as the boy was dropping me on every hill .

I'm taking SmallBoy for a splash at the pool tomorrow and we're meeting up with friends. Also need to do some errands, etc.

Found out this evening that my high school friend who lives in Canada is definitely working out the details to go home for Thanksgiving in November. Fingers crossed she can swing it -- we haven't seen each other since graduation (high school) but we chat on-line several times a week and I so want to see her.

I've not seen anyone from school since I left - apart from one person 2 years above me who shared a house when she did a masters at Uni and I was in my 3rd year....

::throws 80s shapes, since those are all she knows::

SB's Godmother is a friend from high school. I do occasionally run into people from grade school and high school when I go home (small suburban town and a lot of people from my grade school still live there or in the neighboring towns and they're parents' live in the town we grew up in). I have really only maintained proper friendships with the two mentioned friends from high school. I have some of the grade school and high school friends on FB but rarely have proper chats/interactions with them.

I nearly posted in here today, having a big only child wobble... but have come out the other side now... I think :)

I'm glad your wobble is (probably) over, Stockhausen, but feel free to talk about it, if it is not.

Hello, Stockhausen. Pull up a chair to the fire and get comfortable.

Thanks :)

SB was enthralled today but not nearly as much as he was by Stargazing week.

dinosaur week! by eck, TV is getting more interesting.
took the boy to the theatre yesterday to see an am production of Oliver. Boy enthralled.

Mistlechick can sing ALL of the songs from Oliver, although he's not seen it. He can also sing ALL of the songs from Joseph. And most of them from Return to the Forbidden PLanet. And Little Shop of Horrors . He's gone along to quite a few G&S now - and can sing some of those too

Hello Stockhausen - I've certainly wobbled about the only child thing - but DS is happy, sociable and has lots of friends and does lots of things he wouldn't be able to if he had a sibling, so I don't think he does too badly.

Coffee and walnut cake anyone?

yes please. one of my favourite cakes.
I found out the expensive way that listening to internet radio on my phone is not a good solution to no internet at work. ouch.... £15 a day is too much for a dose of radio 4

Ouch!

Can you download things onto something instead UniS - even if that means you get everything a day late?

I have had a weird ol' day on Facebook and have had the following links on my wall today: , Rapping News Anchor and Jazz does Metal. I have very eclectic friends.

Yep- That was a weird day scout !

Who's been to see teh Lego movie this week? I have a new earworm - Everything is awesome.

Using mobile data for long period of time will NOT be happening again, I will be taking a battery radio with me next time I visit that particular customer. The run of poor net connection continued at a different customer the following day who was suffering from a flooded BT exchange, and thus no phone line or internet. Tho their staff member had forgotten about the second phone line which is not BT and was working when I reminded them of its existence.

Key woes continue- I have managed to break off in the lock one of the house keys cut 4 weeks ago to replace the lost on holiday set. Bum, £84 quid for lock smith to come and replace lock ( he did manage to remove key remains but pointed out that it was probably the sticky lock mech that had caused break.

But off set a bit by key joy- My lost keys have been found , behind a freezer in the boot room of the chalet we stayed on on holiday. All of them - house and car, are being posted back to me , hurrah. So glad I held off paying £200 for new car key.

We saw it during the preview weekend. It was awesome.

Hello! Long time no see - just saw you pop up in Active and thought I'd pop in and say hi!
I don't really belong in here any more but it's lovely to see you all here.

Scout - I still have the t-shirt, I'm just allergic to post offices and things, but I'll get it to you one way or another, even if I have to bring it with me to the UK at Easter and post it there!

Is the Lego movie really that good? We saw the trailer for it when we went to see Frozen and discounted it - might have to rethink.