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!

As a dyed in the wool townie I know nothing about matters equine. Earl Grey arrived here on the day that My Little Pony (now, alas, renamed the Tack Room) opened for business and we lost our title as newest topic. We already have Racingpig the guinea pig and Dastardly and Muttley (species forgotten but I'm sure one of the animal wranglers here will remind us).

Earl Grey has his own stables (Mellors the gardener converted one of the outbuildings for him) but you're quite right, Pagwatch, it is a breach of health and safety regulations to allow him actually into the tea room.

The aspidistra? Oh no. Jacksmama has hidden it again behind the shrine to cardboard cutout of George Clooney.

Daisy - I have told you before that Mellors is employed to work here as gardener and repairman. He is a handyman, not a hanky panky man. Please comport yourself with dignity around him. You still have grass and twigs poking out of your chignon.

Bocca - have you seen Mellors though - he's looking decidely crumpled!

Pag don't worry about Early (as DaisyBoy is calling him) he and Daisy have been having a wonderful time together - they went as far as the haha before I called them back in....

I think that DaisyBoy is currently plaiting his mane and mixing him a bran mash ... oh and eating those lovely carrots, thanks Amber!

Sorry Bocca darling, promise to do better for a little while

Dastardly and Muttley were, I belive, racing pigeons...

Racinghound and Mistledog do make an appearance sometimes of course....

oh, great lovely dogs!! DaisyMutt may have been in here too, judging by those large hairy, muddy footprints...

Gotta dash upstairs for that bath now!

Bye bye ladies!

Gosh, so this is what I miss when I innocently go to bed at a decent time (for this part of the world) - everybody shows up!!

Hi pag!!! It's so nice to see you!!

And, ahem Bocca, for once I have not touched that ugly piece of plant hardware the aspidistra. I don't know (but suspect certain pranksters) how it got behind the George Clooney altar cutout. I'm happy to leave the aspidistra alone now that we have no less than three peace lilies.

Hi Justa, we're so happy to see you!

A bran mash? After Happy Hoof mix and carrots? Oh my! You'll be needing those windows open for longer, I'd say....

Hi jm just off for a bath, but so glad to be here again!

Those Pease Lillies are lovely aren't they and the lovely pots - Earl Grey was very interested in them.... (not of course that we would allow a pony into the tea room, of course not, ahem)

Is the Happy Hoof mix like a sort of pedicure for ponies?

Maybe it's like a nail treatment... if so, hand some over!! Because of the butt-freezing cold here, my nails are splitting and my hands are raw.

by the way, what colour is Earl Grey, I had assumed he was pony colour but am now thinking perhaps he is octarine or something more exotic like that?

ok,ok I'm off to my bath....

I thought he was... errrmmm... well, grey? Isn't that why we named him so?
[confused emoticon]

BTW, a belated welcome to Amber! Here, have another lewd roll.

oh, I missed the drum roll and arrival of Octarine Grey to the Tea Room... or perhaps Earl Octarine, so I have missed the story,,, where did he come from?

Happy Hoof mix is what you feed horses for their tea if they have problematic nails. It strengthens their hooves. Ours has it (bless him, elderly hairy old chap that he is these days - we rescued him from dire straits elsewhere).

Oh yes please for a lewd roll. Might put a fresh pot of tea on, too...anyone want one?

love a cuppa, thanks!

there you go, JM, happy hoof mix is what you need - strengthen those nails!

Amber - does he get cider vinegar in with his feed for arthritus too? Friends pony was still happily galloping around her field at 35...

So now I have two new names:
JacksmamaTriedHaggisAndThrewUp in honour of Burns Night
and
*JacksmamaTriedHappyHoofMixAndThrewUp>

Don't know if that makes me adventurous or just stupid

Mistlethrush, he does indeed.

I'm ok, really.

I see Earl Grey as about 16 hands, grey (ie white for those non-horsey people around) or lightly dappled, with a nice crest (big neck), a bit of feathering around his hooves (but not too much)(would mean too much washing, what with the rides along the beach etc) and sort of a cobby build (ie fairly solid - not a skinny thoroughbred sort of shape)... So, what does he look like when you go out and see him in the stables round the back of the teashop?

What does he look like? Right now, rather cross as someone's been helping themselves to his supper