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!

Donk then offers carrots all round!

I loved The Lives Of Christopher Chant. And any other book by Dianna Wynne Jones, apart maybe from Black Maria. Which was the one where Salisbury was actually an old man in Wellington boots and all the rivers were people, too?

So are you a lighting person in a theatre? (Not sure what they are called) I worked in the Nrwcastle Playhouse for a bit and loved it. I was going to go to a drama college and train as a stage manager, but it didn't happen somehow.

MT - yes, I like the garlic ones too

Unis - try the Eyre Affair as thats the first of the Thursday Next series. Great going on the house

Donk is fed up - DH has (mutual) friends over for the weekend and is busy playing silly games socialising downstairs - but I can't join in in the middle, plus have been looking after DS all day (so that DH can play said game) and he has had two massive tantrums ( partly due to lack of attention from DH and friends (DS's favourite honorary uncles). They are rare nowadays, but he has much more stamina than he did as a toddler....

And thanks Just - I needed that pat!

Donk - I wonder if your DH plays the same type of silly games as my DH ? He plays AD&D

Fortunatly DH and friends alternate between two houses, and the DW of the other and I plan a day out with the children as otherwise chaos ensues as they want to join in with it all.

More or less CMOT - various RPGs, its Star Wars this weekend.
And I am not entirely innocent in the matter of games , which is why being left out all evening as well as looking after DS all day is rather irksome...

Oh, and I'm rather worried about my Dad in Victoria, Oz plus other friends out there...

They were playing Star Wars last year, but DH has played loads of systems over the years. He's never done LARP, but my brother does (although I'm now worried you might know him as same vague geographical area - in which case I am nothing like him), and I was at uni with a lot of them.

I have held out against any involvement in RPG for many years. I fear it became a matter of principle..

CMOT, I met nearly all the rpg-ers I know at York Uni, so unless your brother went there, you are safe...

Pats donk. Arrrrgh. this **m lap top has just deleted most of my post. right. try again.

RS - I think its the "merlin conspiracy" that has salibury in, or maybe the "Pinhoe Egg". I've not read Black Maria. Will look out for Eyre on monday at the library.

Donk, carrot?
Amber, More Cab Sav and a muffin?
RS, Another book? How is your vacum cleaner?

I am indeed a theatre lighting person- the job title is usualy lighting technician. I also do mains( power) for small- medium festivals. And Portable appliance testing ( but only if I like teh customer or need teh money as its dull).

No, he was Sheffield >

Donk sits on pile of hay, comfort eating carrots - thanks Unis

Donk- are you and dh on teh fringes of juggling festvals? often a few game players around. I'm only a social juggler so used to hang out with some of the games crowd. I'm not a RPG er, prefer things like Flux, Falling and the great brain robbery.

UniS - great news on the house at this point in time! Lets hope you get an offer soon. Houses are still selling - 4 sold on our road in 3 months at the end of last year.

I hear more snow is on the way tomorrow... Hope its either here properly or gone by Tuesday as I have a decent distance to travel to a meeting and really don't want to do it in difficult condtions.

Donk - I've managed to find some special herbal brew that you might rather like - its primary ingredient is carrots...

CMOT, when I moved back 'oop north', my HoD invited me and my husband round for tea. She too was an ex 'Yorkie', and conversation wandered around to life on campus (although, separated by two years, I had not known her). I blushingly admitted to being a member of SF&F (as the games society was known) - she commented that they all seemed to be short, fat and hairy. She turned out to know one of my friends (currently downstairs) who was not at that time terribly particular (shall we say) about such details as who actually owned the bottle of milk in the college fridge...
Oh the shame...

UniS - DH cannot juggle to save his life.
I occasionally turn up at the club in Leeds (but haven't been for ages) - but feel completely outclassed there. The youngsters think nothing of 7 or more balls - I struggle with 4

Mistlethrush - carrot tea?! Where?
(Donkey's ears perk up)

Donkey's ears swivel round as the sounds from downstairs change - nor more rattling dice! It sound like they've finished for the evening!

Perhaps I can go down and have a conversation

Many thanks for the pats, carrots and sympathy!
Night all

um, yes, donk. I know how you feel about teh jugglers. I was quite chuffed to manage 3, I like club passing and can on a good day pass both handed. But 5 balls, 7 balls etc, doesn;t do it for me. Mainly I stick to balance skills.
havn;t been to a juggling club for years, an only one brief visit to a juggle fest since boys arrival. Will probdly resume once boy is big enough to not need quite such tight supervision around objetcs that can be thrown.

Vaccuum cleaner is at present residing under a heap of blankets in the spare room so that dh doesn't find it before I have had more time to work on it. Trouble is, with all the snow, he keeps not being able to go to work. DO NOT NEED MORE SNOW ON MONDAY.

jacksmamaslittlebundleoflove. I hoped I was being subtle in 'outing' her. My feeling is that poster has a few unresolved ishoos - as no doubt we all have, somewhere!! But I'm not sure how much insight she has. It's a difficult one for sure.
Wishing you the very best of luck for your 'repair' job. And how lovely your mum is to look after you and take over your Jackbaby for those few important weeks. Hopefully everything will go perfectly now for you and you'll be right as rain in jig time.

Birth can be very unpredictable can't it?

My gynae surgeon says my repair job post crash section is a hysterectomy - so I'm putting that off - not very surprisingly I had a huge incision and lots of scars and adhesions, so everything is all bunged up.

I find that when I talk about (and then feel sad) about DD's birth, or even hear about other babies' births, it takes a few days for my sad mood to lift and for the cloud to pass and the sun to come out again, so to speak.
I hope I'm not always going to have to have such an effort to say "Congratulations" when I hear of someone's fabby homebirth of their 4th baby for eg, as I did yesterday.
Now, don't get me wrong - I am happy for someone who has had an easy birth - I'm just still saddened that mine was so bad, in effect it sterilised me, and left me in pain.

I can appreciate for ellymae how hard it must have been to post to a lot of 'strange' women (and the trucker called Barry) - and then to get an insensitive post... humm I think that thread upset me also daisy.
Pause for a deep breath.

Anyhows, I've decided to drape Mellors in my bathrobe, now that I've successfully changed behind that lovely blue silk Chinese Screen.
No more rudie bits even if they are artfully toparied from you Mellors!

And sorry for being glum rabbiting on. I know it's just because the bumps under the carpet trip me up occasionally!!!

Again, best of luck Jacksmamaslittlebundleoflove! hope your op goes splendidly and recovery is swift.

More tea anyone?

Am I too late for some wine?

I realise that earlier I was so distracted thinking about my dear friend Bocca - possibly the kindest, cleverest, most creative, most beautiful woman who ever walked this earth (apart from all of you, of course) - that I was talking as if I was her! How silly of me. Perhaps I am not quite cured after all and should return to the MN State Home for the Bewildered for a rest cure.

So how long is this vacum cleaner tube then? can you get in the other end and pull it all through? Is it flexible enugh to be able to bend the stuck hook so its not sticking into the side?
On 2nd thoughts maybe just hiding it and pretending D&M ate it would be a good move.

oops forgot to refresh page before I posted my last!

And now realised that we aren't talking about that other thread! and i was wittering on and on and on..

Best of luck again to JMBOL!

I didn't see any of the rugby - I did however see a result, and Ireland beat France! hurray! Was England playing also?

So we all read maps and get a kick out of our GPSes, and google earth, and now that we are getting more comfy on these excellent squishy sofas, we all find we played DnD and read SF and F.

The plot thickens Sisters...