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!

Toast would be lovely. Thank you, amber.

The reason we don't have a cleaner is that, as I don't have a full-time paid job (I mention that defensively as I was always clear that being a SAHM was a job at the time I was doing it), I feel I ought to be capable of getting all the domestic stuff done. And your anecdote about the cleaner with her hands in your son's moneybox confirms my darkest fears.

Well, that didn't last long, did it?

What shall we have on our toast? I love honey and am looking forward to the first crop from the Tea Room beehives.

Aarrrrrgh. Its all wrng.this new look. I've been forced to turn off all page style thingys just t get it to fit in the sreen side to side on this netbook. Which means I'm now trying to read a font I don;t find very easy and with not much seperation between posts. I don;t like it.
Rant over.
Hi tea room. posting from cornwall tonight. We have been up graded at the B&B to have one of their cottages, so we have more space for playing and hanging out.
Took boy ice skating for 1st time. he loved it. shame the nearest rink to home is 40 miles away.

lol bocca - have we got Transvision Vamp's "baby i don't care" on there as well?

Justa - I said that I felt that I ought to be capable of cleaning my own house. After all, I have several hours every week when BabyBocca is at school and I could be MNing turning my house into a gleaming palace of order and sanctity. I make no such judgement about anyone else.

UniS - Skating. Wow! We have a skating rink very near us. I have taken other people's kids there but never my own.

Thumb - Transvision Vamp are another band conspicuously absent from my collection of 78s up-to-the-minute downloads. I am using a PC with no sound, so apologise if this upsets the neighbours.

Would anyone care for a Saturday night snifter?

bocca m'love that had to be a typo - 80s, surely, not 70s? thanks for the link, I so love that song too!

We were (saddos) watching the Eurovision song thing - highly amusing watching DS bopping along to Jade singing Lady Marmalade - I used to sing that while I was pg with him in band, d'you think he recognised it? He wasn't interested in any of the other songs, only that one!

or possibly even 90s...

Thumb - You couldn't see because of the crossing out, but it said 78s, a hilariously droll reference to the age of both moi and my music collection.

Ooh, was that Lady Marmalade as in Labelle?

Here - have a glass of Bolly.

Oh my goodness - our elderly neighbours are banging - I think Bocca's music is ok - it is milks crazy dancing to their music that they don't like!!!!

kisses mt lots and lots for crossing to the foocs side - - Fab post, my dear friend!

Blows kissing to rs too... 'cause she is great!!!!

rl is crazy right now - so much going on - hopefully rs and t42 can catch up sooooooooooooooon!!!!!

Whizzes off to prepare for late Chinese New year celebrations in China town tomorrow! fun fun fun....

their??? Obviously i meant her!

Sure was! oh how I loved singing that song but alas I could never get the last note up the octave - had to keep it down - not a natural soprano, despite what 2 choirmasters and my singing teacher said.

78s - yes I get the humour now, shame the crossout made that illegible!

bocca- yeah, didn't expect skating to be aa great success with a 2 yr old. though he would wibble all over the lace for a few mins then refuse to continue and dh and I would have to take turns on teh ice with out him. Instead. boy loved it, he enjoyed being skated round between dh and I, got the idea of leaning his skates to make his ride curve a bit, got teh idea of making his feet a bit then sliding. Even got him standing alone, doing some arm raising stuff then "skating" a foot or so to daddy. So- if you are near a rink and have an athlectic tot .. its worth a try.

Bodes well for sking next winter. Just need to get enough work in next 12 months to pay for said sking.

wow UniS - that's amazing! I didn't think they even made skates that small - I was under the (obviously mistaken) impression that for teenies they did special 2-blade skates for stability.

Much kudos to the boy!

Don'tcallmebaby, have just checked out your links - v.v.v.funny!

Lordy I spend half my MN time just trying to find the tea room but here now

DaisyBoy is on the loo whsitling (blowing his train whistle) it's meant to make pooing easier

Toast anyone
strong coffee?

of to MIL for lunch!

Just started on a hot choc here, having just come back from church.

Daisy, my technique for finding the tea room - post on it intermittently, barely post elsewhere, and lo! there it is on Threads: I'm On.

Off to Starbucks and Sainsburys to eat cake for lunch and then buy food in order NOT to eat cake for lunch for the rest of the week.

I've put the kettle on. Who'd like some apricot and date flapjack?

Daisy, if you put a Watch on the thread, it stays on Threads I'm Watching almost indefinitely, so you can always find it even if you haven't posted for a few days.

Apricot and date flapjack, hey - sounds lush, I'll have some, ta!

Not on yesterday due to concert pre-engagements... MiL has been staying for the we, so has been trying to demonstrate that cleaning is really easy with ds. She also took it upon herself to change his sheets this morning (quite why I don't know as they'd only been on a few days...). His bed was made up with a small sheet (one of his cot ones that's not long enough for his toddler bed), a cotton blanket (fine ), his duvet, doubled over so that it fits on his bed, with a large blanket tucking the whole lot in. Trouble is that even one layer of summer weight duvet is too hot - and she's been told this on a number of occasions. So I had to take it all apart and find one of his small (light) quilts that goes over the top of the bed with the quilt just over his feet.

And she has been criticising me as a BAD MOTHER because I am quite strict with ds. I wonder how long it will take her to realise that, if you're not strict with ds, he will have you running in circles... She has also not perfected the 'ignore and walk away' routine that works really well with ds!!! She seems to think that she will find looking after ds for a couple of days a doddle... I'm looking forward to seeing that !!!!

Hi again, Mistlethrush.

That sosunds very trying. Dr Bocca's prescription for all MiL-related angst is champagne. Would you like a glass?

Dear all
Do you have an admissions policy or can us big hatted Mexicans also come and get a cuppa and a chat?

I promise to behave and to have no opinions on the plants or any of the other decorations.

Catita

There are indeed very rigorous admissions criteria. Please answer the following very tricky questions ~

1. Do you have one child?
If yes, you are welcome. If no, you are still welcome, just so long as you promise never to shout "why don't you just have another baby, you sub-fertile wuss" at any fellow customer.

2. Do you like cake?
If yes, you are welcome. If no, you are still welcome, but you may sometimes go hungry.

3. Do you like soup and lewd rolls?
As with cake. Soup is the mainstay of the tea room lunch menu.

4. Do you like wine/champagne/gin?
Things do sometimes get quite, ahem, lively here in the eveings.

So, in other words, welcome.

What brings you here tonight? And what took you to Mexico?

Ooops. Hit the post button by mistake.

Please make yourself comfortable on our charmingly-distressed sofa. I was about to offer you a drink. Would you like some champagne? Or, if this is not the cocktail hour in Mexico, I'll put the kettle on for a cuppa.

Bocca - go on then, I'll have a glass if you twist my arm... Is it pink again today or normal?

I can't really complain - MiL did take us all out to lunch today - absolutely delicious - and MJ did behave himself admirably, he ate most of his spaghetti and meatballs, managed to chew off the flesh of an alarmingly large olive without choking himself on the stone, and then happily tucked into chocolate icecream, that was brought to the table with a sparkler in! He also managed to get given a colouring book, a shiny ballon, and a Kinder egg. Perhaps they thought it was his birthday Have said to dh that we'll have to go back when he gets a job. Perhaps that will be the deciding factor!