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!

Well, with a teenage son, I'm no longer allowed to say that I'm 21

He, bless him, has gone off to school today very exhausted after a nasty migraine yesterday, but doesn't want to miss any more of his work.

oooh, I love toast and eggs.
The world can revolve without me for a while - sips tea and gets over Jacksmamas' terrible pun (just)

I'm rather ancient at 40!! But (á La Daisy) I'm a bit of a go-er and my wife's one too!

Justa don't worry, it's all thinking time! My DH used to have a lot of that when he was doing his PhD!

here are some hot cross buns

shop bought I am afraid, but none the worse for that! The only ones I ever made, well you can probably see them as the base of Mellor's new rockery over there....

I like the taste of hot cross buns, so I will gladly have a spicy, fruited roll, however, I rather disapprove of having the actual cross bit on any but Easter Weekend - its a bit like having Easter eggs for Christmas, or a Christmas tree at Easter....

Mind you, my mother always used to make 2 christmas puddings and we'd have one at Christmas and the second at Easter. So I really can't talk can I !!!!

Do you think we can have a herb garden so that we can supply the teashop a bit....

Oh, buns, excellent! Just put a fresh pot of tea out, too, and there's some nice coffee in the jug.

The herb garden looks like it's being planted in the rockery

Better get on with exercising the horses by trying to catch them from the back paddock - see you later

Nooo, don't bite any bullets - it'll cost a fortune in dental work

Yes, maybe a childminder. 1000 words is very good. Can't say I've managed anything like that for the book this week. Need to sit down and concentrate.

amber - you are writing a book?!!?

Oh please tell us a bit about it...

Coffee anyone?

Apologies for last night's sorry pun BTW

ok, I know this is really bad form and against MN Etiquette and all but I think it is worth it, nice and uplifting (you have to see it through) - please check out this thread of mine

So many new posts here today that I can't catch up!

Thumb - is it really bad MN form to try to entice people onto one's thread?

I am loving all the references to 1980s clothing and especially to Bananarama. I have been bopping along today to The Voice of the Beehive on my ipod and - heresy - have to say how much I enjoy I Think I Love You.

zazen - You may be a bit of a goer

I was being tongue in cheek, bocca - did you see the thread on MN etiquette for newbies? I flout several of the etiquette "rules" quite frequently, especially in the giving of un-MNly (hugs).

Thumbwitch, that is really good!

Yes, there is a book being written, but I can't say a lot about it other than that it's to do with ASD and tries to show what daily life is like , but without being an autobiography. A tricky balancing act, but the publisher is keen. It should raise funds for disability issues, too. The initial e-published work has been well received (mad people ) and has got as far as Australia, so I can't complain so far.

Must be time for another cup of something before seeing if there's a decent show on the tele.

There are rules about hugging?!

Wotcha Bocca Is that Purley as in the Gated Community?

You know I really don't like hot cross buns. [confession] Unless they resemble muffins - all hot toasty and with blobs of butter sliding around them.

So, I missed the 80's revival last night. In my yoof I was a real rock chick - skin tight black jeans, silk shirts and long wild hair with a leather jacket. In rock clubs I did dress a little more like Daisy thinks I do

I am collapsed on the sofa after a jolly trip to the Wirral. I had erased from my memory that the hospital in question has roughly 40% of the parking it actually needs, so cars are abandoned gaily around the site, under the signs warning of large fines for doing so

ohh zazen, Hot cross buns with butter.... yum. Don't mind if i do.
lewd rolls- how exactly does one defrost in a hurry rolls that were frozen? un coked dough I pop in a warm place for an hour, but can it be done quicker with pre cooked rolls and maybe use of a microwave?

Today i took boy out for lunch, he was pleasent company as we shard a pizza at zizzis. just occasionally he manages to pull off a good impression of being human. hurrah.

Speaking of things with butter, any one else for sprouts and bacon stir fried with butter and garlic and black pepper. Not sure a sprout and bacon garlic muffin would work however.
Thought of you this morning Amber, I bumped into a mum I know with her son ( ASD). Our sons hve enjoyed a coule of days out together doing differnt things in teh same place, just like they ued to at toddler group.

Is there some other way to eat hot cross buns then, other than hot and toasty with blobs of butter sliding around in them?

I have had the most screamingly frustrating day at work when nothing worked and I got nothing done. People keep asking if I'm alright and I'm beginning to realise I have become insanely stressed without quite registering it.

Hence I am drinking a VAST gin and tonic.

DD is being hideously adolescent. She is rating each day with ticks and crosses, and the smallest thing rates big crosses everywhere. And she gave me a sticker on Tuesday for being good at the dentist ... I feel like I've lost track of who is supposed to be the adult around here.

UniS - loving the concept of un-coked dough, as opposed to coked-dough - would that be similar to hash brownies?

sorry Thumb. my dodgy typoing again.
I use'd to eat Hot cross buns naked, cold and whole. They were tasty cheap lunch eaten whist walking through town to do what ever errands I had to do in my lunch hour.

Dont tel Mellors about teh naked buns... hell only get excited.

oh don't apologise for it UniS - made me smile thinking about coked-dough!