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!

actually it was me making those noises!!!!

I was telling Mellors all about my cousin's birth story (it was very dramatic unlike my rather civil anti-climax of a story).... Mellors, on hearing someone coming, afraid my panting and groaning sounded a bit risque (I was about one fifth of the way through the epic) quickly fabricated a story about the noises actually being Earl Grey!

Earl Grey is as healthy as ever - sorry for concerning you all!!!

Look what I just found by the front door, ladies. A large aspidistra in a very pretty cache pot. There's a card. It says 'from the handiest man in your life'. I wonder what that means?

racing - Oh dear. Amazing that it's often the smallest stuff which provokes the biggest rows. Would you like a hug or supportive pat on the arm? Or a stiff drink?

Baileys? Eww. Dreadful stuff, but I can imagine that it might be good in coffee. What would the non-Baileys drinkers like? We have all the usual things - champagne, gin, wine, cocoa for the abstemious.

Hugs, pat on the arm, baileys and red wine, please.

So glad to hear that we are not all going to have to chip in to a massive vet's bill, but supportive pat on the arm for Tea's cousin. (Anything more might be too familiar.)

Nice to see you back, Tea. How are you feeling after the funeral?

And what a beautiful aspidistra! Now we will have two! We can have one on each side of the fireplace ... err .. can't we?

Thanks RS -

After all the traveling and Tonight I feel....
Tired
Emotional
Short tempered

But really overall, considering, quite o.k thanks!

The funeral was just right quiet, relaxed, intimate and filled with love! He would have been pleased.

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=whSYTSXm8wo

This song played in my head as milk and I crossed London on the tube.... anyone fancy hpping up and down with me?

hopping

Bocca throws some shapes and, since we're in the presence of the Modfather, puts this on the decks.

Quick, everyone, Volver is on the television! I love this film. Penelope Cruz has just washed THE KNIFE in a significant manner.

Tea, of course she is. We are all our real selves here. Maybe in RL we can't show it, but this is us, like wot we are. If only for the moment we are trying it out.

oh - I love it too!!! I have it on my amazon wish list and the note next to it says - for Mum for Mother's day!!!!

Fab fab fab!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rc - Brilliant statement - are you trying to get quote of the week????

I feel we may have to set up a shelf in the tea room bookcase for dvd's. Only for really quiet evenings when no-one is in, of course. 'Volver' is the first on the shelf. And The Edukators. And My Life As a Dog.

Getting quite excited by our dvd shelf. Almost tempted to start a thread like Bocca's Treasures to fill the shelf, but WS is insistant it is time to sleep in bed, not on the sofa , so bonne nuit, Tea, buenas noches, Penelope, and good night to anyone who may be sitting silently behind the aspidistra.

I give up. Fine. The aspidistra can stay.
I, on the other hand, believe I may have to flounce if we can't even have a peace lily instead of that ugly piece of plant hardware.
[hmmppfff emoticon]

Nooooooo!! Don't go! We can compromise. Let's have both/ Besides, haven't you noticed how much our aspidistra looks like a peace lily (apart from the flowers). I have never seen an aspidistra flower.) And we can have the peace lily in the cache pot in which the aspidistra appeared.

I'm sure that with a waste paper bin and a lot of papier mache the various dc's can have a lovely messy play time making a second cache pot.

Hello all my lovley tea room friends!

How I have missed you! Just back today, and have taken DaisyBoy to nursery for the first time. He was so brave and so little

They rang up to tell me that he had been crying but was now fine, which made me feel oddly much much worse!

Am meant to be reading the 1,000 emails that have arrived in my absence until it is time to fetch my little chap, but of course all I can do is sit here on the sofa and stroke racingpig and sip coffee....

by the way, I haven't a hope of catching up on all the chatting, but I hope you are all well and lovely, have we any new people? In which case, hello, to you I am new but I am actually as old as the hills

DaisyBoy is home, in one piece, as am I, just!
he was sitting on a little chair clutching his bag containing his spare nappies ready to come home - it broke my heart! But now eating fish fingers and chatting, he'll pull through!

I suggest "Hear my Song" and "Some Like it Hot" for the DVD shelf ... have a need tonight I think!

Hello again, Daisy! Good to see you. Yes, we do have some new customers. UniS, Kickassangel and Dontcallmebaby have all recently been pressganged enticed in by the smells of baking.

Oh. I thought I would bring one of these in as I knew JM wanted one and I thought it might soothe the aspidistra in a bit. But I see you've already got one. Never mind. I'm sure that there's room in the corner of the window sill for this one.

Did anyone else have any problem with MN over the weekend - I couldn't get on - which explains unexplained absence over the w/e. Never mind. Here again now. Will catch up more this evening.

It is sleeting here. What joy!

Ok, I am now terriby ashamed of myself for my pretension of intention of flouncing... because I really would never!! I love the tearoom and you all too much. And RS even provided the gorgeous cache-pot for the new peace lily MT brought... I am very touched that you two would go to so much trouble despite your own (goldfish fights and redundancy being a lot more stressful than having to look at a plant one dislikes no matter how butt-ugly--).

About the DVDs, I second "Breakfast at Tiffany's". But for late-night suspense, may I add "The Game" with Michael Douglas?

Daisy, welcome back!!!!! (((SMOOCH)))
And a smooch for Daisyboy too for such a stressful experience. Cannot believe the nursery ringing to say he was crying - I'd have lost the plot!!!

Must go have more coffee... oh, wait, I forgot about the latte machine...

So... could you sum up the weekend-long goldfish fight? So we can all pick on DH for upsetting you ?

Oh and tea, welcome back, sounds like granddad's funeral was as nice as that sort of thing could be... (((HUGS))) for you too!!

JM - redundancy would be very welcome - its the lack of it that is really trying at the present time - particularly as the bank apparently pulled the plug at 10.30 am but the bosses didn't tell people until 4.30 to go away and btw they weren't going to be paid for that day or indeed any of the month so far....

Jacksmama - I bought a peace lily too.

MT - DH says that management often cling onto the faint straws that something will turn up long after it is totally apparent that there is no hope for the company. Doesn't make it any better, but its more that they are trying desperate measures to keep things afloat with credit lines than trying to be w*nkers.

Daisy - I think that some people are comforted to know that their child has been upset and then recovered during the morning rather than being on tenderhooks all morning waiting to know this. Not entirely sure as DS has settled without any worries both times, and on a recent school visit refused to leave the foundation stage room and we left him with people he'd never met for an hour without him giving us a backwards glance.

I thought of you today Bocca - I have a meeting in Rome to go to, which needs me for 2 hours. And all I was thinking was whether I could go there and back in a day. Oh, and the fact that last time I was in Rome was the only time I have genuinely thought I was going to die in a taxi