Tea Room the 37th. A new one. Needs fitting out.

[UniS]

Here is Tea Room the 37th.
A new one.
Needs fitting out.

Please help.

Happy New Year, ladies of the Tea Room.

And a happy new year to you!

Happy 2015 to all of the Tearoomers!

Best wishes for a peaceful & healthy ,in the fullness of time, 2015.

Flaky network here. Uni family are on holiday in a very rural part of England but staying on a holiday park. Mountain biking, walking , swimming and a steam train today.

That sounds great, UniS. I need to blow away the cobwebs.

::adjusts party hat to a jaunty angle and blows paper whistle thingy::

I love paper whistle thingies, Maud, do you have any spares for SmallBoy and me?

Well, as it's a figment of my overheated imagination virtual, I guess there are plenty to go round!

::distributes paper whistle thingies to Scout, SmallBoy, Mellors and anyone else who wants one::

Pulls a cracker with scout. Its full of little tiny trains.

SB still loves trains so I might give my crackers to him. He also just noticed my new LEGO shirt (it looks like a retro 80s generic spaceman top/body) and he said if I wore it he would be "very proud because you (me) have a shirt like Benny.". My five year old is proud of me and my lack of fashion sense.

Have spent the morning playing Monopoly Jr (three consecutive games!) and now he's happy with his new box of LEGO (one of those that just has bricks and random pieces, not a kit). Swimming later. It's raining and if it weren't swimming day I'd hide inside all day. Operation Teach SB to read (like I said in the other space, he's nearly there) starts next week.

Anyone fancy a ?

Brew please.
Christmas tree removed, christmas tree needles removed from carpet. Tinsel packed away. Cheapskate half price cards bought for next christmas. Think a cuppa is called for.

SB had a great morning at his friends'. We're now having a break from Monopoly Jr.

phew, one game on repeat can get a bit samey. Much as I like Ghostly Galleons I can get bored of it.

Care for a cream tea? Devon style or Cornish?

Yes, we had another two or three games of Monopoly today. Then I managed to get him to change to Math Dice Jr.

Mmmm, cream tea! Yes please, Devon style please. Yum!

Lashings of cream coming right up. Blackcurrant jam or raspberry?

Games of choice here over christmas were bananagrams , plop trumps and flux . Not all at the same time I hasten to add. Plop trumps is just a version of top trumps, fascinating gross info about animal poo.... Flux is awesome, but if you introduce it to small boy you may need to take out about half the rule and action cards till he gets the hang of it, then start adding them back in gradually.

Not Monopoly Jr again....

Raspberry, please. Thank you very much.

I have bacon. And bread. And butter. And a variety of sauces. I don't understand butter on bacon sandwiches but apparently it's the right way to have them. And I have to eat them like that from now on.

Went to the famous horse racing town today to meet up with a friend. Passed SB's BFF's school -- cue lots of excitement that he passed while she was there and though he didn't see her maybe she saw him through the window.

I have always found Monopoly a big yawn. I remember playing with my cousin decades ago and not collecting my rents in the hope of throwing the game and bringing it to an early end. The Girl was keen for a while - she has Girlguiding Monopoly - but now seems to have lost interest. I love Bananagrams.

Monopoly Junior is a bit different to grown-up Monopoly. The longest game has take 20 minutes. We played one today that was finished in five minutes. SB loves it, more than I realized he would. We also spent ages working on phonics and playing Math Dice. That's one he's surprisingly good at.

Uno is still popular here. We have / had a maths Scrabble game which was fine unless dh played at which point it got boring because everything equalled zero and had a gazillion brackets. Then boy worked out that anything x zero is zero and also started playing boringly.
If I still have it I can post it, you might get a couple of years out of it. We used it for made up maths games as well as scrabble.

Maths scrabble? That's mind boggling!

Math scrabble sounds brilliant!

Still waiting for the delivery van. Come on, please hurry and bring my medicine so SB and I can go to town and pick up MrScout's medicine.

SmallBoy wants to play three-person Monopoly (JR) now that it's the weekend and MrScout is home. I am this close to cursing the day I suggested to my MiL that Monopoly Jr would be a good thing to get SB for Christmas. I think we have played a minimum of two games/rounds of it every day since we've been back to Scoutshire. Ignore me while I rock and weep in the corner at the thought of another round.

Hello and a belated Happy New Year to all in the Tea Room.

I tentatively ventured here a while ago but didn't stay long , may I come in again please?

I'll reintroduce myself, shall I? My name is stickygostuck and I have a 6 yo DD. Right now I am struggling massively with family issues and depression, in a kind of snake-biting-its-own-tail way. The upshot of which is I have 'decided' we must have another baby . Which is bonkers as (a) we can't afford it and (b) we/I couldn't cope.

DD is an only through choice - early years were dire with PND and stress. Then we had illness and bereavement in my close family, and massive fallout from that, resulting in contact with the rest of the family becoming extremely hard, a sort of double bereavement. 'Normal' depression ensued and GP has prescribed antidepressants, which I have not taken yet. On a waiting list for talking therapy, which I should have heard from by now but haven't.

For the last 4-5 years, I have tried to keep alive the relationship between DD and her cousins abroad. This Xmas it became obvious that we will always be the ones doing the travelling, the calling and the running around after them if contact is to be maintained, as their parents are not helping one bit. I am now trying to come to terms with the fact that the economic, practical and emotional strain is too much and is aggravating the illness, which is affecting DD now.

DD has no siblings and no cousins nearby. There are no other children in the immediate family (well there are two, but we rarely see them. It feels we 'need' them more than they need us). She goes to a small village school, which I regret because of the smaller pool of potential friends. DD is not the most outgoing child.

Therefore, in my wisdom, I have decided that a new baby must be produced to make up for the fact that DD has no other close children around her . Make of that what you will!

I'm sorry, I did not intend to write my whole life's story. It just came out . I will understand if you hang the 'Closed' sign on the door!

Hello, stickygotstuck.

I'm afraid I don't remember 'meeting' before. This thread keeps dropping off my 'threads I'm on' and so I'm sometimes absent. Anyway, come in, make youself comfortable on the distressed chintz sofa and have a drink. or ?