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!

Oooh! I love Peanuts.

I love Peanuts too but not as much as I love Calvin and Hobbes.

Hi all, crappy week - my laptop is at the doctor's (am using DH's Mac and feel all thumbs), I drowned my mobile, and we all have flu. I've had it since Friday, DH since Sat eve and Sunday afternoon Jackbaby started to run a fever and cough. Grrr. Am now going back to bed, just wanted to say hi in case you all were wondering if I got lost in the new layout or flounced.... ha ha, as if.

back to bed with you with some of Catita's Laphroaig!

Hope you feel better soon...

We're all feeling crappy over here too. It's a bank holiday (Constitution Day!) but DH had to work and I have the flu plus godawful stomach cramps. DS, however is full of beans and wanting to play outside away from my comforting glass of whisky cup of tea.
Still, DH is back now and so I thought I find said toddy cuppa and see what you were all doing in the tea room.

PS. I vote for Calvin and Hobbes, myself

Damn it, I can't get these striking out stuff right. It should be glass of whisky
Plus my English is terrible. Please excuse all errors ("I thought I'D find", obviously) Apologies all.

I give up

glass of whisky Catita - you have to put the strikes round every word. Tis a pita when you want to do a longish phrase.

for you that you aren't feeling so good

There's always a bonus to the bottle ending... it means we can start another
I'm sticking to the whisky to avoid a hangover. But I can probably rustle up whatever you fancy thumbwitch from the back cupboard..

[she rummages happily through assorted bottles, sugar cubes and baby oil (!)]

I see that some of us are making sure that there are supplies in just in case Mellors/Gorgeous George offers a quick massage

I claim first dibs if GG shows up later.

ooh, no, wouldn't use baby oil in a massage! far too oily and slick-like. No, a nice light almond oil or grapeseed oil is much better.

you don't get hangovers from whisky??? Am v. impressed. I get hangovers from everything now, except a decent amount of pimms and champagne (well, cheaper fizz actually but hey! who cares).

I can see that you have the crucial experience I lack on the oil front. I shall remember that once I have GG in my sights

Whisky's fine, if drunk alone. But NEVER EVER mix it with red wine. My landlord and lady used to delight in my conversation after a bottle of each (in my defence, on the whisky front it was Bells or Famous grouse). Apparently I generally became quite inspired. Not that I remember, though.
I do remember the subsequent mornings, however. [sicky looking face]

whisky and wine - yes, didn't do that too often. The real killer for me was Guinness followed by whisky - dear God.

must toddle off to bed now - night!
Enjoy the whisky - I expect Mellors will be along any time now to stoke the fire...

Hmmm, hangovers. Had my first pint in a while on Saturday night and spent all of Sunday lying on the sofa feeling queasy and fluey. COuldn't work out if it was flu, or if I now have zero tolerance. Please let it not be the latter...

Thank heavens we're at granny's and the lo had her gm and gp to look after her...

Guiness and whisky, definitely not at good combination. Sorry for the delay, it was bath/bedtime this side of the atlantic, had to go and get splashed.

Night night then.

Virtul hangovers are a piece of cake, from what I hear and hope The real thing I haven't been able to try for a while. I suspect that one pint would also have me laidup on the sofa.

Still, it'd get me in the right position for this massage I'm waiting for.

I'm just off to -er- take some asprin and lie down.

Hey, Georgie....

UniS, my people-recognising skills are definitely not improving. Last month I misidentified a work colleague that I've been working with for two years. Her neighbour who just happened to be visiting her was pleased by my friendly greeting, but puzzled.

Mellors I can recognise because he's mostly been the only man, but if there's a George generally here as well, this could prove very difficult. They'll have to wear labels. Given his naturist phase, not sure where Mellors is going to stick his at the moment

Nice pots of tea and coffee brewing for those that need one? Anyone mind if I use the piano for a bit of practising today?

I brought plenty of work home with me yesterday, so I'm working at home (alhtough it is warmer in the office - I've just put my second fleece on ). Its absolutely beautiful here - about 6" snow, blue sky and sunshine. Have suggested to dh that he should take MJ and Mistledog out sooner rather than later as it will be less slushy that way.

MJ has been wearing a hand-me-down ski suit. I had hung it up in his wardrobe only 2 days ago, thinking to myself that it would still be a bit big on him. But it fits almost perfectly its amazing how tall he's suddenly got. Does anyone else find that their feet have a bit of a spurt, then their height catches up a bit? Mind you, he had been bulking out for sometime so I was expecting a sudden increase in height. He's always been big and solid, but I've never had one of those chubby babies or toddlers with fat legs etc.... (quite how dh and I managed that I don't know )(hoping MJ has picked up on the genes from my father's side, and the ones that are in hiding in dh but very evident in his brother - you'd never know that they were brothers they are so different in build)(although MJ has picked up the knee bone thickness from my mother )

Sorry, rather a stream of conciousness this morning - obviously feeling a bit left out having missed all the whiskey consumption last night.

I think the Ha ha may be full of snow, teh sheep walked straight over it. Oh, teh ecumenical deabting society. Are like teh ladies prayer circle a friend of mine has round for tea and cake on a regular basis. I don;t know if tehy do much praying, but they do do a lot of tea and cake. I've always made my excuses and left before teh praying bit. never did get teh hang of out loud praying in groups, left teh school CU because of it.

Amber- I'm better at mens faces than womens ( better at mens names too). For women I rely very heavily on context- heaven help me if they are not at their desk - or worse at someone elses desk. When some one from work showed up at yoga they had to tell me where they knew me from. Curously I seem to be better at boys names and faces than girls even with little toddlers.

Righto- off to get boy from play group. We have a session in the sensory room booked, followed by swimming. Then a friend coming up here for lunch. OH- must get soup out of frezer.

I'm absolutely hopeless at names, and fairly awful with faces too. I can match the parent to the child, and probably tell you the child's name at school, but cetainly not get very far with all of the parent's names.

I went to a meeting the other day and found that the person that I was meeting I actually knew from a completely different context - but it took him saying that we sang together then about 10mins frantic thinking of which choir (of the two) before I worked out that he and I are part of the occasional choir at church which is got together for special occasions... luckily I don't think I said anything inappropriate on that, but its very embarrasing when someone says I know you from ... and you can't for the life of you remember where or what their name might be

Mind you, I didn't get a great mark in O'level history (there, that dates me somewhat! ) because I couldn't remember names or dates

Me neither re the names and dates

I'm fine with pictures, maps, diagrams, basic maths if I can visualise the answer. Loads of words, or thing like dates, no chance.

I'm good at maps too Amber. It is very useful when travelling. In fact, I often used to do the navigation for family holidays in France as my mother had a tendency to go into a dream and not give the correct directions. I just have to be a bit careful to avoid travel sickness though. I do have a satnav now though, which is good - particularly as it tells you where there are speed cameras and bleeps at you if you're going to fast to go through safely . This is due to trying to find a site one day and doing the same stretch of road twice - it looked like a 40mph stretch and there was no reason for it to be anything other than this apart from making good finance on the speed camera (which caught me twice within 5 mins). Not long to go now before I can get rid of those points though, and I really don't want any more. I am actually normally v. careful of speeds, particularly in any residential areas...

Twice in five minutes Heck! It'd take them hours to prise me out from hiding under a duvet if I opened the post to find two speeding tickets, that's for sure.

My sat nav's fine. Dh's sat nav is as mad as a box of frogs. It regularly takes him to Maidenhead when he's asked to go somewhere else, or asks him to drive through a river or into a farmer's field. And it's been looked at several times, too. Of course, it could be the way he puts the data in .

Drat. No tea in this mug.