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!

36, hence The Voice of the Beehive being the majorly 80s inspiration for my name, daisy

Hm, 'interesting' thread re clothes. DD wears all sorts of random odds and sods. Likes pink. I like skulls and crossbones - can be very cute on little girl stuff, rather than in sludgy boy colours. One of my favourite things of hers is a black/white striped top from H&M with a skull and crossbones on - skull is wearing a red bow. I don't buy second hand but give and receive hand-me-downs freely. I've managed to be organised enough to send stuff to NCT twice - blimey, that is a hard way to make money! I bumped into a friend shortly after the last spring/summer sale, her DD was wearing an outfit from the sale, yes, one of DD's. Felt a bit weird knowing that a friend had paid for clothes of DD's.

Anyway, DD refuses to change out of her uniform after school at the moment, so she is barely getting any new clothes at all.

Justabout - Your motives are, ahem, impeccable but I'm sure you can guess the stories. The usual fatal combinations of coveting and neighbours' spouses.

I don't remember the music of the Voice of the Beehive, but the band name and look are fab.

Shall we open another bottle of gin? Or champagne?

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DIdn't they do a version of "I think I love you" which is brilliant imho. I wanted our band to do it but they wouldn't.

champagne of course Bocca!!!!- It makes sense now you all know I am of the champagne socialist generation!!!! And lets dance in a dodgy way to this...

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• In 1998 I was seventeen and bloody believed things would get better too!!!!

Sob!!!!!

Sorry, had to go out for a rehearsal. I could have joined in from the tearoom, but I would probably have emptied the place, so I thought I'd go out...

Ds does have a skull & cross bones T shirt - its a very happy skull on a nice, blue stripy teashirt with red edges for a happy pirate... Its just the rather violent sort of looking ones that I dislike...

I could just do with a glass of whatever is still available - G&T / chablis / whatever. I'm pleased to report that dh managed to get his finger out today and has had a much more proactive day today. Clearly the 'words' we had last night did the trick and it was a good thing I didn't send the email which would have festered all day....

There are an amazing number of us aged between 29 and 74. In fact, is there anyone here that isn't within that age range? If there is (or if there is anyone looking in that doesn't fall within that age range) I'm not saying anything bad about being in that age range you understand...

Bocca - anything interesting in the gossip line?

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wow - you are in a band thumbwitch - what do you play???? [excited emotion]

well, I don't play anything in the band as I am strictly a "read i from the sheet music" sort of musician - I am indeed the "chanteuse" as bocca so sophisticatedly put it!

Just started watching QI - did you know that the noun for vagina in French is a masculine noun? Mental or what?

pmsl - they are doing QI in french - classic!

I haven't sung with the band for about a year and a half now - having DS kind of put a spanner in the works.

Tea - Were you really born in 1981?

These bright young things from the 1980s are all very well, and I was never a David Cassidy fan, but I've had a soft spot for this song since Hugh Grant quoted from it in Two Weddings (and I'm not a fan of Hugh's either but we saw the film about a week before we tied the knot).

Just going to iTunes to buy some Voice of the Beehive. I wonder where I put my original 80s ra-ra skirt.....

Having ds has, I think, improved my singing...

NO Bocca 'twas '79 well...just!

I've no longer got the lung capacity, although I think that regularly yelling reciting 'have you got your shoes on?' and 'where is your book bag?' may be changing that.

lack of babysitter and the fact that band practice ran from 8pm til gone 11pm did for us - oh and the fact that DH was the bass player! Otherwise I could possibly have carried on going.. we dd discuss taking it in turns to go but not really viable, and then our drummer had to have triple heart bypass so band stopped totally for several months.

He's ok now though

Am so glad that we have our very own tea room rock chick.

I thank yew - sadly my leather trews no longer fit either..
Still got the hair though!

Glad your drummer is well now - heart ops are really nasty business...

All this talk of muso types reminds me of a good joke I know...

What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?

Homeless!!!

I know someone who is just like that - he is a singer in his band though - while the drummer is really quite normal and has a home!

Right. This is the image that is forming in my mind.

I could have the hair, but I try to keep it a bit more under control - it means that people standing behind me in choir have at least some chance to see the beat... Luckily there is a fairly good rake in the seating where we normally do concerts, so its not so much of a problem.

Dh and I have the same problem TW re choirs and orchestras - although we get round chamber music sometimes by having it here so babysitting isn't a problem.

I don't know if you caught the other thread that made me today which was someone who was asking whether it was 'unreasonable' to ask her dh to 'babysit' their 3 children for a couple of hours on a Sat morning when she wanted to go shopping - having not been out without a child for about 3?? years. It makes me realise how lucky I am with dh who is quite up for taking responsibility for his child without any persuasion....

bravo Bocca!!!!

I am developing the exact same attitude towards people born in the 80s as I remember an older friend having towards DH and I because we were born in the 70s. Bugger.

I am the least musical person on the face of the planet, it's quite sad. I did discover this afternoon that my next-door-but-one-neighbour used to work for INXS, which is very rock'n'roll.

OMG, Spin Doctors, I loved that! Aaaaah.