The Fourth and Only TeaRoom! Tea, Champagne and Muffins at all hours! Racing Pig get moving!

[daisy99divine]

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!

Catita - don't change it; it's great!

Have I solved the vexed breakfast question, that's what I want to know...

Ds is growing fast, and is full of beans. Which means he needs to eat a reasonable breakfast in the morning to keep him going until snack time at school (or middle of the morning snack at home if its the weekend or holiday). So we normally sit down together in the morning to eat, although I am often still faffing around with the teapot when he has breakfast in front of him. He can choose an element of breakfast. Nearly every morning we have a fight to get him to eat as he is too busy talking, stretching, scratching down his PJ bottoms !, fiddling with things or generally procrastinating. This morning, fed up with getting cross with him and having a fight I gave him a ramekin and filled that with a small amount of breakfast. When he finished that (which he did with allacrity) he had a second, slightly different version that also disappeared with no need to nag him. He probably had more breakfast as as a result of this than he normally does, eaten in half the time and with no struggle. Is this the way to go? - will he catch on and start playing up again? how long will this last? What was also interesting was that his elbow was not on the table at all - whereas breakfast yesterday I had to remind him to eat every mouthful and tell him to take his elbow off the table every mouthful. Or is this as he had a particularly bad day at school yesterday and has got out of bed with a 'I'm going to be good' hat on this morning and he won't ever repeat the breakfast feat again?????

MT that is very cunning!
I use a little star shaped ramekin (used for nuts at winter parties) for DD's dinner sometimes - oh the novelty of having thirds!!

Cat - I think you pulled your name out of a hat TBH Loving it

Now, for a lovely hot coffee. Looks out over the lawns. Don't the statues look demonic in the snow?

I love the Daemon game I wonder what my MN daemon is?

morning all, just before lunch!
DS finally went to sleep at 10 in his cot and stayed there until nearly 6am. I hope he is better today with his routine so that he will get back in the habit of going to sleep first off in his cot!

Catitainahatita - love that name!

TW - stick at it - it will come...

For the first 10 months, ds decided that, during the day, if I was around, the only place he was meant to sleep was in my arms. We did manage the buggy and car - but otherwise it had to be my lap. And you could gently slide him into a comforable seat, or on a cushion - and he would wake up immediately, only settling in my arms (although also too). For four of these months he was at nursery - where he would happily go to sleep on the big cushions around the room, not worrying about the racket etc going on around him. However, at about 10mo, I suddenly found that, if I took him up when he was dropping off, he would happily settle down in his cot - which gave me a blissful hour or so without a heavy lump to do things for myself (or go to sleep!).

Bedtimes also improved - he was really awful to settle when he was very little - but routine played a significant part - at this stage he still had a bf last thing, then I'd put him in his cot and sing some songs - he quite quickly learned to settle himself which is such a great thing for both child and parents...

Any one for soup and a roll? Tomato and basil with creme fraiche for anyone that wants to be posh!

(BTW, so much for just being a thread to talk about food and bewail the fact we've only got an only!!!! )

I'd love soup and a roll, yes please. Was woken at 6 by thunder, lightning and heavy snow outside. It's taken me a time to stop hiding in the broom cupboard at the back of the tea room .

Thunder and lightning with snow that's really unusual!!! it would have shocked me even though I normally like a good storm. (My father and his sister were made to get up in the middle of hte night by my grandmother and huddle under the kitchen table - I think it made him want to do the opposite and I've caught that bug, although I wouldn't want to be stuck outside in one. Best storm I saw was in the alps - it was so noisy I couldnt' sleep so got up and went into the livingroom/kitchen - where we hadn't drawn the shutters - my mother also was woken up and joined me. The sheet lightning lit up the sky so that you could see the whole valley as if it was the middle of the day - for probably 2 or 3 seconds at a time!)

I quite like thunderstorms normally, but I've never seen one with snow before.

I'll be so glad when this snow and ice clears. Teetering along without falling is very exhausting.

My problem is that I'm not a natural teeterer - I have a tendency to stride, and its quite difficult when its slippery!

hello, i am new to the tearoom. i normally skulk around in loneparents, and try to be funny on other threads to make up for my moaning about my ex husband!!

I will sit in the corner a while, and look at the threads, and wonder what I can bring/add.!

Hello

Welcome to the Tea Room. Bring anything you like. (We seem to have almost everything here in one corner or another). Cuppa whilst you're browsing? Slice of cake? Do mind the priest hole in the corner, and if you're wandering outside, beware of the snow-filled haha. (Well, they did appoint me as the elf n safety person for the tea room )

Hi PirateCat nice to see you there. I notice our resident guinea pig RacingPig is frisking you for twiglets already

Lots of snow this morning, thankfully stopped now. The cats are not impressed to say the least

Morning all.

A special warm welcome to piratecat. I can tell you as a very recent new guest in the tearoom, that everyone is lovely here. We have pigs (flying and guinea), royalty (Daisy is really the queen you know)and lots of cardboard cuts of dishy men, plenty of tea/coffee/soup/liquor of your choice. Its quite fab.

I've got exciting seminars all morning so I be off in a mo. I hope noone falls on the ice today.

hi piratecat! can't remember which threads i've seen you on [dim emoticon] but I have seen you a fair bit!

Hi piratecat! Welcome!
Don't come near me yet as I'm still coughing...

I had nothing to do with the gin smell surrounding racingpig, just want to make that clear.

Would love some tomato soup but will maybe wait a bit since it's only 9:41 am here.

now now jacksmama - you know that due to the magic of the tearoom you are automatically non-infectious and we are all automatically immune anyway, so come on over and join in!
have a banana cookie and some virtual syrup of onion - excellent for annoying coughs and throat infections!

Syrup of onion???

But I will have a banana cookie, thank you!

Syrup of onion? My sister who among other things is an accupuncturist and into alternative medicine, suggested lots and lots and lots of onions for DH, who has now been ill since mid December. Is there maybe something in the onion thing?

If I have too many onions I get bad wind .
On the other hand, the cough is pretty bad.

But I don't know if I could choose between coughing and **ing.

Welcome piratecat - well the first thing you can do is help yourself to a big glass of champagne - Then after that looking at your profile the next thing you can do is give us all some really cool facepaints!!!!

Me first me first - pleeeeeeeeaaaase!!!

oh yes, tis the allicins. Excellent anti-bacterials and anti-virals.

Well, it's going to be minus ten tomorrow night, they said, so horse better have his extra rugs on. And the horses here better have theirs on too.

Did we mention Mellors, who isn't a cardboard cutout from what I can see of him . I do wish he'd get through this naturist phase and stop looking like Daniel Craig/an actor of our choice. Very disconcerting when I'm trying to concentrate on my country life magazine work.

If it's time for some champagne, I'm very willing to join in . Or if we've run out, a cuppa will do nicely.

ohhhh- I managed to make a snowman in RL today- not as good as teh one I made in teh tea room garden, but kinda fun. Boy gave it stick arms, a stick bum (!!) and stick willy. Me thinks hes nearly 3 in oh so many ways.

Can I have a nice hot choc to celebrate- teh think sludgy gloopy kind. Have had to cancell my planned muni ride tomorrow- my riding companion is snowed in and the place we want to go to is also under 18 inch of snow. have re arranged for next weekend. Devon doesn't normally get THIS much snow.

To who ever recommended Jasper Fford, thank you. I've just finished " the forth bear" I shall be borrowing some more, any suggestions for which one next? Assuming the Library have got it in.

Evening all. I heard the mention of champagne and so was beamed back to the mother (geddit) ship.

Who else would like a glass?