Would anyone like a cup of tea and a muffin?

[MadBadandDangerousToKnow]

I'm tired and in need of refreshment.

The tea room is now officially open, serving hot chocolate, tea, freshly-squeezed orange juice and a range of home-baked muffins. Tablecloths and crockery are charmingly mismatched antiques (no Cath Kidston here). We overlook an attractive although somewhat overgrown garden, with a distant view of rolling countryside.

Everyone is welcome but house rules dictate that anyone indulging in fisticuffs will be ejected.

Please come in.

Teafortwo throws on a few tracks in honour of our new tea shop customer....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa6bI_95G9I&feature=related

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5cCWbzz15c

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_WG4nqgFE

Welcome rebelmum!!!!

!!Humph!! are the regulars not good enough for you now

I wondered where that opened bottle of cava had got too...

Oh, MT, we love you! Don't flounce out, here's the cava and a glass for you.

Maybe we could do a thread in Chat calling people by name and then posting a link to the tea room?

Oh, and btw, I finally got the Baby/watermelon thing... see, that was soooo long ago I'd forgotten!!

I don't think there are any good songs about a mistlethrush though.... T42 goes to search the cd rack thoughtfully....

MT - here's a song for you, too. It was the most ornithological I could find!

I still haven't really got the watermelon thing but then (shameful admission) I've never seen Dirty Dancing. Anyone else want to admit to the gaps in their cultural knowledge?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9t9e7617K4

• get your dancing shoes on - it is a song for Mistlethrush!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mistlethrush not being the same as mistletoe, we seem to be S-O-L in the music dep't....
...not wanting to be disrespectful but perhaps we could get a karaoke machine and do an adaptation of "Rockin' around the christmas tree"?

oops, x-post, I should have known t42 or Bocca would find songs

Bocca - before you go - just quickly - 'Baby' carries a watermelon into the crazy, sexy staff party and... as a result of this her life changes foooorrrrrevvvver!!! Actually - She has the time of her life!!!!

It is probably the chick flick version of Wuthering Heights - if you read/see it before your 15th birthday it will be forever in your heart and in the case of Wuthering heights soul but after you just aren't prime for it anymore - and you will just notice the daft bits and laugh at it!!!

So... if you choose to watch it for the first time now... I suggest you spend three hours in meditation remembering exactly what it was like to be 14 in advance and only then will you will be ready to watch and have some possiblity of enjoying!!!!

Oh well...shall I lock up???

...T42 takes a bowl of hot chocolate (??? - It is a French thing), a candle stick and a book and tiptoes upstairs (yes - the cafe has an upstairs) to bed!

In the middle of the night she sits up with a brilliant idea to tell Bocca about...an idea for getting all the oldies back to the tea room and imagines a great unity of wonderful people - the new, the old the knowledgeable, the keen... but by morning light the idea has completely gone!

Morning all - I think I'll have a large pot of tea please...

MT junior was quite good at school yesterday (at least compared to the day before when he'd been leading staff a merry dance ) and has managed to eat all his breakfast up without having to be reminded about 50x (he has had a good 10 hours or so without talking and eating breakfast is not half as interesting as having a conversation when you've been brewing them up over night) so I imagine that he will be awful at school today again!!! I think that he is just one of those boys for whom being good just runs out and they just have to do something naughty. We have at least named him appropriately for such an only boy!

We've just moved offices and now, instead of having someone else's office beween me and the window, I hav ea window of my very own. I am currently looking out of the window watching the birds - and guess what one of the types is !

Who are the 'old' 'regulars' that are missing here - is anyone that knows them going to crash a few threads to link here then?

Oo I'll have some tea, too please. Although I wasn't downing the flavoured vodka that made its way in here last night, I did consume more than one glass of lovely rose shiraz to celebrate the completion of a rather vile meeting. And these days, any more than one glass means I feel a bit rough in the mornings.

I love the idea that MT junior runs out of being good and just has to do something naughty! I imagine he will go far as an adult!

I am lucky in that I have a window in my office, but I have to stand on my desk to look out of it. And that's frowned on a bit where I work - apparently it's not very 'health and safety'!

Probably should be quiet this morning - we might wake T42 upstairs - is she still on the run??

Here you go - I'll be mother as no one else is offering - milk?

MT junior really does just run out of being good. He can be the most wonderful, loving, gentle, kind, caring and eloquant small boy - then he goes and does somthing that completely eclipses all the good and nice . He also believes that boundaries are for pushing, and that rules are there to be tested

Yes please to milk. Thank you.

My DD (littlepants?!) is only 20 months, but is showing signs of being very very sneaky, so I think we're going to have trouble with her!

By 20 mo ds had learned that he could get away with an awful lot if he gave one of his seraphic smiles a just the right point. He tries that now - but there is a limit to what it works with!

I've got some oat and sultanna cookies here - would you like one with your top-up?

T42 sleepily stomps down the stairs takes a cafe au lait and some of those yummy cookies - then whizzes off to work!

Its good its so close from work to here

Oo - yes please to a cookie. In fact, just leave the box here...

Hello all! [waves enthusiastically]
Got caught up watching some old crap film on tv last night whilst sipping aforementioned flavoured vodka and then didn't make it back to the laptop.

Have a very farty dog sitting on my lap at the moment, and am wondering what she's eaten while we've been out at playgroup this morning (she is not normally farty, so she's probably had something she shouldn't have eg that garlic olive which rolled under the couch and then disappeared).

Hmmm. Lovely, anyway.

Could do with a very large cup of something gorgeous, one of those multi-herb-and-fruit tea concoctions (surely that isn't spelt right? don't care), any recommedations?
Ooh, and I'm about to bake a batch of brownies, if anyone is interested....

Hiya rebel! Come and sit yourself down

Oh we used to celebrate our dog's birthday - in fact, he used to have two birthdays a year like the Queen - his real one, and then the celebration of the day we got him!!

I was devastated when he went, but he was a good age, and had suffered with various ailments all the time we had him, so it was a wonder he lasted as long as he did! He was an ex-racing greyhound and not the brightest of animals, but he loved being round humans and managed to convert a good number on non-doggy people.

What are parson russels like? I don't know that pedigree. My grandparents used to keep jack russels as guard dogs so I've always been very scared of them!

...good number OF doggy people....

should have used preview!!