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!

I've never been entirely sure what Earl Grey looks like (I tend to keep my distance) but I do have this Polaroid of him and Daisyboy going out for a canter.

So, the sun is truly over the yard arm. Anyone for a sherry (I think Daisy has left us a drop)? Glass of champagne?

Yes please! A glass of bubbly'd be lovely, whilst I contemplate the many mysteries of the tea room

No pictures of the guinea-pig then???

Urm... thanks bocca - I prefer champagne!!!!

Is this a good likeness of racingpig?]]

Well, if we're watching Ab Fab it has to be Bollinger doesn't it? I hope we are all wearing our best Christian Lacroix gowns!

Cheers!

Unis slips on her dressing gown and thus brings teh tone right down as ist towelling and a bit grubby- what fool gave me a white dressing gown, oh yes my youngest SiL who has no kid-

Earl grey- that pen picture seemed about right to me. And yes I'm sure racingpig bore a passing resemblance to that one. Mellors... now that would be a challenge. and one I'm happy not to accept.

Hi Amber, nice to see you over here. I think earl grey will welcome your input, he was a wee bit forgoten about. None of us had even noticed his need for happy hoof mix. oops. Pony mad but ponyless childhoods that we had.

Its getting busy in here, I'm going to need to write in a txt editor and paste in soon, can;t remeber what I wanted to say to people by teh time I've read teh rest of teh posts.

Mistle - I oriinally saw him as a sort of dull bay, but yesterday was driving to work in the lanes near the racing stables (honestly) and saw Earl Grey out being exercised. You're quite right; he is dappled grey.

The turn the catering is taking is reminding me of my favourite character in The Vicar of Dibley, Mrs Cropley. Pilchard and sultana vol-au-vent, anyone?

Daisy - so you have been in France! Where? Have you thought who is going to play you in The Tea Room, The Movie? I wonder if Bocca, as Head Girl, has got the cast list anywhere.

Dastardly and Muttley are the tea room white doves/pigeons (although D does have a black feather in his tail). I am firmly shooing them back to the tea room, as they just escaped into RL and flew round the sitting room, frightening WS into hysterics. She has finall falen asleep on my lap, still giving the odd gasp and shudder, and I still have wet hair from my shower, from whence I ran to rescue her, which will now have to dry slowly and itchily overnight. She loves holding them firmly under one arm with the other hand grasping a neck, but gets scared when they fly about.

This is how I imagine Earl Grey

I think Happy Hoof would probably do me a lot of good. I used to pinch the goats show shampoo when feeling daring as it cost a lot more than my shampoo has ever done, and it made your hair look fantastic

DH is away (tis his turn this week) and Cat1 brought a mouse in. I shut the kitchen door whilst she was killing it, and DS asked straightaway 'what cat1 brought in'. He decided to find out, and opened the door to see cat2 with a tail hanging out of her mouth

Oh bother. Had done a scintillatingly witty post and just lorst it.

Will just concentrate on the movie, then. For newer customers - the screenplay of Tea Room: the Movie has been in development (as we Hollywood moguls say) for some time. I think we need to update it, so that our new customers can appear in it too.

Well, here it is but it stops after the infamous jail break. We need to write several new scenes. And it looks as if Mellors used the cast list to light the aga (or did racingpig break into the filing cabinet and scoff it?) So we'll have to redo the cast list:

Bocca - Judi Dench

Now who else?

Mellors, by the way, has asked whether he can play himself. He has given me some photos of himself in formal and less formal attire, showing - he says - that Mellors scrubs up rather well.

Amber - The air-kissing isn't compulsory. We sometimes do supportive pats on the arm for people who don't like hugs. Or would you prefer a friendly wave which doesn't invade your personal space?

And who'd like more champagne?

Mane and Tail Detangler is very good at getting the dreadlocks out of the back of WS's hair.

Racingsnake to be played by Emma Tompson (Thompson?)

CMOT to be played by Elle McPherson (don't fall over laughing at the back there)

If you have anything to add to this thread please do! It is something that has started to bother me a bit - IYKWIM?...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/one_child_families/689175-what-happens-if

I do believe T42 was to be played by Debbie Harris in the 80s.

Who have we got signed up to play daisy, as well as new comer amber, and ol' regulars uni and baby though?

Mwahhh, Mwahhh, Mwahhh I'll have some bolli dahrling....!!!

I told you that Earl Grey could change mysteriously depending upon who is looking at him - CMot my version is similar, just on a larger scale (probably something to do with being realistic about the size of horse required for me!!!)

I'm just posting this so I don't lose it ...

Bocca - Judi Dench
Cmot - Elle McPherson
Racingsnake - Emma Thompson
Tea - Debbie Harry
Mellors - Himself

I was thinking about detangler this evening as I doused BabyBocca's hair. Why does it work? What's in it?

I can now spot an interesting three-way overlap between us, the tack room (nee my little pony) and style and beauty. Actually, let's make that a four-way overlap and include AIBU too. My new thread will be called AIBU to enhance my only child's style and beauty by detangling her hair with horse main detangler?

Tea - have posted on your thread. Are you feeling under pressure? Have some of Dr Bocca's magic champagne medicine.

I think the main ingredient is silicone - so the hairs get coated and the outer surface stops being scaly (can't remember the right word, but you know what I mean), and the hairs can slide past each other. Pure jojoba oil works well as an alternative though

Can I join in guys? I;m new to this thread but have been MN'ing for a while. I'm an only DD and have an only DD.

Wombling - Yes, yes, yes! You're doubly qualified to be here.

Please sit down. Oh. Better to avoid that end of the sofa as that's where racingpig, the tea room guinea pig, lives and he's eaten most of the stuffing.

Would you like a drink? By this time in the evening we're normally quaffing champagne. And tonight we've been watching the Ab Fab box set.

How's your day been?

lovely to see you here

Extra bubbly all round btw - my lovely GMIL who is 95 has come through her hip re replacement with flying colours, and is doing great.

Very at anyone who still has a grandparent or grandparentinlaw. Three cheers for Cmotgranny!

Wombling - nice to meet you! Most people here have onlies - I am an only too!

Bocca - dh suggests Andi McDowell for me. So I'm ()

I don't tend to need detangler any more - but I use the Aussie 3 min miracle conditioner which sorts all of the tangles out. I'm not sure what it would be like for Earl Grey though...

Thanks for the bolly daaaaahhhhrlin'! xxx

I read a thread organised by morningpaper saying hun, giving hugs, bumping, being called mummysomething and putting xxx in posts is really not on. Feel free to not read the xxx if it is too much for you!!!!

Hi cmot - glad GMIL is OK.
Bubbly sounds great although I have just polished off a large Baileys

If we're still casting - can I suggest Reece Witherspoon for me (in my dreams!) and Hugh Jackman for my love interest please!

All my grandparents are long gone, although I have a great Aunt (who I have only met 3 times as she wasn't in contact for 30 odd years and then turned up), so GMIL is special. As well as being a special lady - when she had a skin cancer last year (not a scary sort, just needed removing) under her eye, she tried to get the surgeon to do her an eye lift. And was going on about the youngsters (80 somethings) on her ward letting themselves go as no makeup.

MT - bonus points for your DH then !

The only one of those that we do is the occasional hug though....