The One and Only TEA Room: Everyone Welcome (bring champagne and muffins please!)

[Jacksmama]

Wow, we're on our third thread!!!
Previous (second) incarnation of the tea room.

A warm welcome to everyone, whether you have one child, none, or ten. This is a tea-and-muffin or booze-and-sofasorcanapees sanctuary for all. But certain standards of behaviour continue to apply - anyone engaging in fisticuffs will be ejected by George Clooney, ably assisted by Mellors the Gardener.

Cheers all!

Rev - nice to see you!! (of course, we didn't really, particularly if asked... )

On a similar vein...

justabouttohaveasomething
justabouttohaveadrink
justabouttogoanddosomethingelse

Glas s of merlot anyone?

Yes please to the merlot.

How's your day been, Mistle?

Justabout - But it is in the tea room (and I'm sure it is anywhere else, too)! In the magical tea room, we are all drop dead gorgeous, with vivacious yet enigmatic personalities and scintillating wit.

By the way, do you want to be featured in Tea Room: The Movie? Who would play you? The cast and crew list so far (I hope I've found the most recent version) is:

Bocca - Judi Dench
Cmot - Elle McPherson
Racingsnake - Emma Thompson
Tea - Debbie Harry
Mistlethrush - Andie McDowell
Womblingfree - Reece Witherspoon
Daisy - Rene Russo
Jacksmama - Kim Raver
DCMB - Celia Imrie and Kate Winslet (job-share)
Cmotdad - Himself
Mellors - Himself
Unspecified love interest - Hugh Jackman

Best boy/girl and grip - UniS

And would Amber like to appear on screen? Or behind the scenes?

So, we've got this far -

Bocca - Judi Dench
Cmot - Elle McPherson
Racingsnake - Emma Thompson
Tea - Debbie Harry
Mistlethrush - Andie McDowell
Womblingfree - Reece Witherspoon
Daisy - Rene Russo
Jacksmama - Kim Raver
DCMB - Celia Imrie and Kate Winslet (job-share)
Justabout - Dawn French
Cmotdad - Himself
Mellors - Himself
Unspecified love interest - Hugh Jackman

Best boy/girl and grip - UniS

I can dream.

our bird watch netted 8 sparrows and a robin. can I file it on line?

I am so glad Dawn French is going to be in The Movie.

I may need Margaret Rutherford to understudy for days-after-the-night-before like wot I've just had with WS's cold.

And we were going to audition for a new customer who could be played by Mirriam Margoles (sp?)

Er, perhaps behind the scenes would be easier for people?

Miriam Margolyes! Lady Whiteadder! reveals other comedy obsession

Amber - gaffer, grip, best boy, other random mysterious film-making post? Cake consultant? Special Assistant to Mr Jackman? No, scrub that, I'll do that one.

Mm, I have a particular thing for Hugh Jackman in his Wolverine get-up, though I have no idea why.

I have had a challenging day, though I couldn't say why. DD has decided to rate her days with a tick or a cross (a nice lunch causes cries of 'this is the best day ever' while a mild telling-off prompts 'this is the worst day of my life'*) and has given today a tick 'for daddy' and a cross 'for mummy'. I told her SHE got a cross in MY book today. Remind me, who is the adult around here again? Oh, I remember - DH.

• alternatively a horrified gasp of 'I never been spoken to like this!', with the invariable retort from me 'yes you HAVE, all too often'

Very nice, justabout, the colour suits you and the drape is just so.

Amber- do you fancy havinga go at continuity on teh tea room movie. someone has to be organsed and precise to make sure the peae lillys and aspidestr are in teh right place for each scene. ditto the correct mugs/ glasses etc or we could have a scene where boca starts out with a mug of tea, which becmes a glass of bolly in next shot and the a G&T in teh long shot. messy.
I havn't got teh right kind of brain for that work, I just like making lights work and getting electricity to the right place. I realised very fast at college that stage management was nt the job for me.

roadly specking a grip is a rigger- on who seures camera postions, doe tracks, dollys cranes and booms etc ( & in USA , lights etc) and makes sure they are safe and out of out of shot. A best boy/ girl is an assistant to the lighting gaffer ( you can have best boy grips as well, also an assistant) Maybe I should be gaffer- after all thanks to teh magic of the tea room I CAN take the reponsibility.

Justa - Probably wise not to use the night of lurve one, although I was careful to specify that it was with one's lawful wedded spouse and so sanctified by God and the law.

Amber - the choice for the film is completely up to you. If you appear as a character, you don't actually have to do any work, as the actor will do it all for you (although I might offer to carry Judi Dench's handbag for her, just so that I can hang about on the set).

There was some merlot around earlier. Anyone want some of that? Or champagne?

"Bocca starts out with a mug of tea, which becmes a glass of bolly in next shot and the a G&T in teh long shot"

Sounds like a typical evening in the tea room!

Actually, that would be a grievous continuity error as I never drink gin!

Am very impressed to have someone here who is clearly in The Business, though.

ooh, I know I'm a newbie to this thread but can I be in the film too can I please?
And can Cate Blanchett be me? (apparently there is a passing resemblance in certain lights and looking squinty eyed at a severe angle...)

Thumb - Yes! Was watching Elizabeth last night and very much hoping that Cate could be in the film.

We don't have newbies here as, thanks to the magic and warmth of the tea room, we have all been friends forever (even if we don't know each other very well yet). Also, it's a bit like the Hotel California - you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.

And, of course, you do need to get the fascinators right - ie the same person in the same fascinator worn at the same angle on the same side...!!!

Not too bad a day - and have managed to pull off a few more jobs for dh to apply for - somehow I'm managing to find ones to apply for that he hasn't (if I'd realised how incapable of typing IT jobs and the relevant county into Google he was I might have taken charge earlier - I just thought that 6 months ago when I started sending the odd job that came to my attention he had started looking properly ())

MJ decided to wake up at 2.20 this morning with 'my sheet's untucked' - I'm afraid he got short shrift and was told to go back to bed and make the best of it!!! He still got up at 6.30 - but it was dh's turn this morning and I managed to get the odd bit of extra sleep after then. Still rather tired - must try to get to bit earlier (heard that before???!)

There is an article on applying for jobs in yesterday's Guardian in the Work section.

RacingPig will of course play himself.

Gah!! How could I have forgotten racingpig? So ...

ThumbBurns - Cate Blanchett
Bocca - Judi Dench
Cmot - Elle McPherson
Racingsnake - Emma Thompson
Tea - Debbie Harry
Mistlethrush - Andie McDowell
Womblingfree - Reece Witherspoon
Daisy - Rene Russo
Jacksmama - Kim Raver
DCMB - Celia Imrie and Kate Winslet (job-share)
Justabout - Dawn French
Cmotdad - Himself
Mellors - Himself
Unspecified love interest - Hugh Jackman
Racingpig - Himself
Dastardly and Muttley - themselves
Earl Grey - himself
Lady Grey - herself

Best boy/girl and grip - UniS

No animals will be harmed by the making of this motion picture.

Thanks for the Merlot Mistle!

Closest I got to the RSPB birdwatch this weekend was a nice lady sitting at my shared cafe table (terrbly arty yknow!) gave DaisyBoy her RSPB Observer Guide to Birds. It didn't occur to me why it was printed this weekend but we have been looking at it at supper!

Sorry Amber the role for you in the tea room has to be "Best Boy Gripper" given your shameful treatment of Mellors last week [snigger] [snigger]

I wondered when we were going to get Black Adderish... I am wont to say "who's queenie" when necessary in DaisyVillas...

by the way, as well as Miriam I feel a role should be found for Juliet Stevenson. A great and sadly oft forgotten acress although her voice was voted Radio 4 Women's Hour most preferred reading voice ever in the world (or some such accolade!)