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!

one with special hoof handles coming up

Well... on Monday, WickedWaterWitch started a thread which made it clear that she rather liked her name, and was a bit concerned that WickedwitchofWest something else (its somewhere in London) had come on after her and that someone was calling her WWW as well and that the two might get mixed up. Lots of WWW (1)'s acquaintances came on supporting her, even though she's been elsewhere posting on a different forum so not mnetted for a while.

Then WWW (2) gets invited to come and read the comments. She said that she was something else, then Wickedwitchofthesoutheast (or something but moved to Westbury (is that the place?) or somewhere so changed her name.

She then read some more threads, most of which suggested that she should change as www (1) had name first.

WWW (2) then said that she wasn't attached to her name, but didn't want to change it and was never on the same threads as www 1, and that it was only when her friend couldn't be bothered to type whole name out that she got called www anyway.

And so it continued. Until WWW 1 came back on and said that it was clear that the two of them weren't going to get mixed up anyway so, thinking logically, she had no problems with www(2) keeping the name.

This, of course, generated some 200 ish posts which got quite heated over the last 2 days... not sure whether its still going somewhere or not!

You didn't miss much - its the mnet fisticuffs session that appears to be required at least once a month a the moment (or is it once a week).

I am glad taht the teashop isn't like that!

I once bumped into Melvyn Bragg, y'know. Was walking through Covent Garden in heavy rain, with my head down. Walked into a chap. Looked up and it was Melvyn. Decided not to tell him that he had been my first crush.

Thanks Daisy99 - so thoughtful
(sound of Donkey glugging tea)
Eeeeawwww!
(exits with laundry basket strapped to back)

Yes, truly.

I had earlier been very smitten with Donny Osmond (largely because the first words my soon-to-be best friend said to me on our first day at secondary school were 'do you like Donny Osmond?' and it seemed politic to say yes) but, once the hormones began to surge, Mr Bragg (as he then was) seemed like the ideal man.

Justabout - snap - although he would have had to have been scaled up by about a foot I think

mistlethrush, thanks for that - I shall leave it alone, I think, as I don't really know either protagonist!

my first crush was Midge Ure rom Ultravox - oddly enough, DH has a bit of a look of him!

Is it safe to come back out of the Priest Hole yet? Could do with a soup.

Son goes to a Quaker school so we know plenty of Quakers. And curiously I'm a member of three denominations due to an ecumenical arrangement we have. All very confusing, really. Even worse for me when I do the multi-faith lectures and have to remember which people shake hands, which are offended by the presence of certain sandwiches etc.

That was close.

So here you all are!
Buenos días amigas de la sala de té!

Melvyn Bragg has a lovely voice being from Cumbria and all. My deligh in him is kind of ruined when he appears in the flesh (on TV i hasten to add) though...
My first crush was on the lad next door's best mate. I can't even remember his name no. I also thought Rick Astley rather charming (oh dearie me... what a quiff). OOh and after watching "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" also the late, oh bloody hell, whathisname the actor bloke, blonde hair, lovely eyes. Made sauces and things...

Paul Newman

Couldn't we resurrect him to help Mellors out with the chores and stuff?
Does the tea room have that kind of power??!!

Eek! If we resurrect Paul Newman - which I'm sure we could, as the tea room is magical - we'll have my mother battering down the door to get in.

Resurrecting people?!

here I am having a miserable day in RL, I have a friend downstairs with new baby that I am meant to be cooing over and I am stuck here working and not getting anything done and all i can hear is my lovely DaisyBoy wanting to spend time wiht me and I think why do I pay someone to look after the best thing in my life and I'm not even earning anything right now...

so I come into the tea room to rant and what happens? Melvyn bloody Bragg in the buff dancing near the ha ha with Mellors

and I smile

so thank you lovely Tea Room

hey, if George is a cardboard cutout then I think Paul Newman should be too. We can't be having resurrections in the tea room - the ecclesiastical visitors will have forty fits! Despite Lazarus, it don't fit well with their doctrine.

Amber - Not in the biblical sense. No no.

'Twould be a virtual resurrection, all done with holograms, mirrors and such like. Or Donk, Cmot and all the other resident physicists could rip a hole in the space-time continuum - using only a spatula, tea tray and oven glove - to take us back to the glory days of Cool Hand Luke.

good x-post bocca!

Oh dear, Daisy. Would you like a cup of tea? Amber? Thumbwitch?

Keither Sutherland.. swoon. well when I was 16 or so & he was in lost boys I swooned anyway. I did have a bit of thing for long blonde hair.

Maps- Love em. Love drawing them, love looking at them. As a geeky teen I had maps as posters. Boy now sees maps as play mats to drive cars on.

THanks for movin the tea room earlier. And thank you for the signs, tho I could have followed the trail of bishops, district supers and imans If I'd been carefull to avoid the HA ha. Do Quakers have a top person with a title? As a snotty horrid teen (attending a methodist church, Anglican school and Baptist holiday club with Bretheren Grandparents) I once met the methodist chair of conference (or something like that) and asked him if he was a bishop or a what? He thought he was a what.

Amber - would one of ds's outgrown wellies help?

For a moment there I thought, "Oh good, a boot! Somewhere more effective to hide the spatula and oven glove" and then I thought "No, Amber, good girl, think about this...reboot...wellie...grin symbol, tis a joke, there is no virtual wellie in the virtual tea room occupied by an ecumenical committee and some invisible animals..or is there?"

More tea...I need more tea....

Sorry, it was a bit vague wasn't it...