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

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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!

Guess we're not moving to Tearoom The Fifth tonight... good, I can relax. Wasfeeling a bit too tired to pack up furniture and dishes.
Night all!

Jacksmama Thanks for asking about my thumb. I've been a unable to visit the tearoom much in the last few days... my works computer has a virus (sob sob ... cheapskate university didn't pay their subscription to the antivirus provider) and is working fitfully. At home DS is being very absorbing, but cute so I'll forgive him . So sorry I haven't replied to your queries (and if I have posted and not seen them, a thousand mor apologies).

Oh my thumb (I was forgetting that was the point to this post). Well, it looks less and less like a spare part to a Frankenstein film this week. Obviously the bit I chopped off has not reattached itself, but by dint of taping that on tight to wound it has healed up more or less without sticking horrendously to the lint/bandage. After witnessing a bandage change my DH asked me if I was planning on committing a horrendous act of terrorism in the next few weeks since I had obviously remooved my thumb print quite effectively

But never fear, it won't get in the way of me packing up the tearoom in time for our impending move.

Damn!

I'll do a bit more halfhearted packing and be off to my bed. Hope to see you all in the new tearoom tomorrow.

Now, I wonder if Mellors can help me fold our cardboard cutout heart throbs?

Good morning, all. Just came in 10 minutes ago and had done a considerable amount of virtual packing then hit the wrong button and it's all back in place.

Will give up for now as I have a ridiculously busy day to come and pass the task over to Mellors.

Please someone leave a note with very good directions if you have gone by the time I get back.

Do you think someone should tell Mellors that he needs to handle Mr Cluny CAREFULLY otherwise certain people will get quite miffed when the time comes to unpack and he won't come out of the box in less than 20 pieces.

Morning all.

How appropriate that darling George has turned into a place of pilgrimage and reverence!

I'm glad to hear that Catita's thumb is healing, even if it is now less than complete!

I won't be around much during today either, so, if you have to decamp before I get back, please leave a trail of paper a la cross-country running towards Tea Room the Fifth ....

The duel at dawn between Mr Amber and Mellors? It was awful! I could barely watch, and I'm not at all sure that Bishops are allowed to lean out of their bathroom window and yell, "Which of your blighters has just shot a damned great hole in my orangery windows!" His gardener appears to have cut the topiary cockerel in half in all the excitement too

Mr Amber says it's Not Fair that Mellors is occasionally James Bond in films and knows how to shoot straight, and he's now sulking and refusing to take part in tomorrow's re-play, and that's after I gave him that whole suit of armour too.

I need tea...and I'm not at all sure that this is suitable low-stress behaviour for a man recovering from hospital. Tsk.

Amber, perhaps you could invite them over to see a preview of 'The Tearoom: the Movie' at some stage? Here, would you like a dry hankie? And I'm sure you need a cup of tea.

Donk - I'd love to have a go at driving - and the surry driving looks really fun. There are also scurry driving competitions at the Royal Show and we always make sure we're there for them. And the small ponies seem to go as fast if not faster than some of the larger ones - and they SO enjoy it don't they!

I loved going riding - I used to ride a friends horse - and lived near the downs. When we could get up there (weather/time etc) we would go up on the downs and use one of the tracks and have a really good gallop - it was great being able to say to the horse - no, you can go a bit faster - go on, yes, you can really, I'm not stopping you.... and let them really stretch out (luckily there was a nice steep hill at the end of the stretch where we used to do this so there was never any problem about pulling up at the end!). In fact, I learned to sit deep in the saddle riding a pony in the village who used to spook at nothing when you were up cantering on the downs - and went 2 or 3 metres either way - so unless you wanted a long walk home, you stayed in the saddle!

Mistle- no offence taken- I'm a rotten typist and too dyslexic to niotice half teh time. Young framers would be quite funny :-) Not sure there would be as many of them in devon as young farmers tho.

My Dad's tumour is primary (hurrah!) so he is now in hospital whilst they prepare for surgery.

Cue Donk chewing her hooves to bits in worry.

Anyone for pancakes later?

Donk, extra-big bucket of tea for you. Goodness...have you got enough people to help you with the to-ing and fro-ing? Worst mistake I tried to make was going there alone...

Yes please for pancakes later. Must rush out and get a lemon...

Thats really good news. What kind of tumour is it ? Astrocytoma ?

I will be making pancakes later, esp as DH phoned to say he would be home at a much better time than previous estimate.

Can the new tea room have a garden room so that we can enjoy any sun in the warm ? Although it might need privacy glass so that Mellors doesn't shock the bishops

Coffee and chebe bread anyone ?

Pancakes- yes please. lemon and sugar or chocolate spread?

No objections to teh slide then? good. I'll head over there with Mellors and we will get teh yurt up and teh wood burner going.
Priest hole will of course be moved over too. stables are still just around teh corner and teh lawn still slopes down to teh lake.

Amber - sadly, nipping over to Melbourne isn't an option. That's one reason my hooves are in such bad shape - chewing them is about all I can do!

I'll help move the furniture and crockery - after all donkeys are pack animals.

Melbourne? Heck, no, that's not really a daily commute

Can I help by biting my nails too?? And packing boxes for the tearoom removal, of course.

Are we really going to be in a yurt? Not sure what a yurt is like to live in (she says, nervously)...

CMOT - I don't know what kind of tumour it is yet - they were going to do more tests and an MRI scan before operating.

(I know why they changed the name from NMR to MRI, but really, the original was more descriptive so long as you didn't start panicking at the word 'nuclear'!)

The yurt Is up and ready for business. please stroll across the bridge, use the slide if you wish and join Mellors and the gang in the new tea room yurt for lunch.

Is he at Peter Mac ? I've been to a few hospitals in Melbourne in the past.

For reasons not entirely clear to me, NMR is only used to refer to non imaging, wheras MRI is imaging. Of course now there is MRIS and fMRI which is kind of combination of getting spectroscopy information over an image

I think it was changed in part to get rid of nuclear, but strangely imaging with isotopes is still nuclear medicine

CMOT He is at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (? if I have the name right - it was 2.30 this morning when I was told, and I wasn't really with it)

Many years ago I was told that they had changed to MRI for imaging in hospitals because the term NMR had been causing patients needless anxiety and distress. (This was on a visit to the Medical Physics department at Bradford Royal Infirmary)

Amber - I am very concerned about the re-match tomorrow. It is true that to some people (including me) Mellors looks like James Bond and is a good shot. But, to other people, he looks like Richard Sharpe, an even deadlier shot. I really think it is important that you should use whatever womanly wiles you choose to detain Mr Amber in the Priest Hole Guest Suite of Requirement and ensure that he does not go back for a second bout of duelling with Mellors. We, meanwhile, will just stand by admiring his boots and knee britches.

Donk - I don't really understand the medicine here but will be thinking of your dad (and saying a prayer if that doesn't offend).

Right. Off to find the yurt. Can someone help me heave the soup tureen onto this convenient trolley? We'll have to ask Mellors and Igor to shift the aga.

helps MadBad with tureen

Blimey, that is a BIG tureen.

I think I'll leave the remaining few naked carrot-riding mohawk babies behind, they seem to have got everywhere.

Donk, that's better news than it could have been - fingers still crossed for you that i is fully operable and the least nasty option available.

Quick! Get over to the YURT before we fall off the end of the world!!!

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh