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!

I loved Tom Cruise from Top Gun days until I realised he was actually climbing a little hidden ladder to snog Kelly at the end

Oh dear! Do people think that the constant adverts for the tea room are a hijack? You see, I thought they were a way of letting folks know that there was somewhere they could discuss things which might be bugging them and have a nice sit down and cup of tea at the same time. And - even more importantly - I thought they also let people know that the tea room was genuinely open to everyone and wasn't one of those long-running threads where you have to have been in on day one to be accepted. Oh well, it's good to have another perspective.

Did I hear mention of Bolly ?

I think everyone has that sort of mini crisis day Daisy. And gin is the answer. Although I thought the comment was rather narky.

Can we have Wesley Snipes in his Blade costume too ?

Daisy - I've just tweaked my work-life balance by booking a day off for tomorrow. I shall be spending some quality time with my hoover. Oh joy.

I feel ridiculously upset by that carping comment, now that I've seen it. (Big mistake to go and look). I shall drown my sorrows in Bolly.

The bay window is going to be very crowded with George, Paul and now Wesley. It will be an arresting sight for passers-by and possibly will do more to entice in new customers than any amount of advertising!

Twiglet, anyone?

A real 'me' day tomorrow then Bocca ? DS did the hoovering this evening in his own special way

Wesley was only a suggestion - I wouldn't wish to force him on anyone

I think Wesley in head to toe leather will be a most comely addition to our display. I suspect he will be very popular with some of our Canadian customers.

Twiglets - yes please!

Yes, I thought that comment was a bit - please note that the poster had not posted on that thread at all - all makes me rather

At least I doubt they will be coming to the tearoom.

Wow! We seem to be going through tea rooms faster and faster!

New premises look great and moving has got to be better than dusting!

Tea - DH and I love Jacques Prevert! I love the poem Inventaire (possible sp). I didn't know her does/did children's stuff.

(I mean, of couse, he does. Her does is too West Country)

I have put it in my Amazon basket.

Daisy, what do you do that you do from home? And why should anyone think that a polite invitation is hijacking? Obviously people out there taking themselves very seriously.

No, whoever suggested it, no no no no! No meeting up in RL unless you can all garantee that we will all look like Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep, RacingPig, etc.

What would happen to the abandonned bishops, eternally leaping snow-filled hahas, who would curb Mellors' worst excesses, if we were no longer there? For we would no longer be there, I am sure. The only being who moves corpreally between the two worlds, to my certain knowledge, is RacingPig, he never speaks of it in RL.

(Well said bocca!)

Racingsnake - It was me wot mentioned the RL meet-up. I wasn't suggesting it - I have the same fear as you that it will be a matter/anti-matter thing and if we meet in RL the tea room may be sucked into a black hole and dematerialise, never to be seen again - but I was trying to gauge how others felt. And then there are the practicalities. Even if everyone did want to meet, we would need to find a location equidistant between the UK, France, Canada and Mexico!

Bottoms up!

An equidistant place would, I feel, be rather watery.

Oh, racingsnake, I wouldn't have mentioned it if I thought it was going to make you anxious. It was just that the earlier mention of a meet-up which justabout had been to set me wondering about the demand (or not) for, and the logistics of, a tea room meet-up. But even if it does happen on a barge somewhere in the Atlantic, attendance will be voluntary!

Would a bracing drink help, racingsnake?

No to a meet up. on the internet no one knows your a dog.

Besides Your mostly women, I'd have a dreadfull time not manageing to remenebr anyone name for more than 5 secs and Amber wouldn;t want to let go of teh chair shes hiding behind. I have nice mental pictures of some of you I'm quite happy to remain deluded by.

ANd would we want to put such a big bunch of only children in one place and then have to deal with their inability to share. sorry- maybe your's are not like that, but boy and his RL "best/worst" friend (also an only) had multiple fights today over who was going to sit on which mummies lap.

ohhh- good news- I had a phone call from a customer, for whom I have been a subcontractor under a main contrator for a couple of years. They are likely to put the project out to tender this year BUT wanted to know if I would still like to be involved in which case I would be either directly contracted to them or made part of the requirements of tender. Nice to be appreciated, they thought I really " understood" the project and made their life easier. Needless to say I do want to be involved as its a good chunk of money just before christmas as well as being a statifying creative job( hummm, maybe).

hello RP, nice to see you, twiglet?

I did once meet another mner too. It was really nice actually.

I think I would come to the tearoom meetup... If I could get to it easily on the Metro!

If we had a Wesley Snipes cut-out in leather I might feel better soon...

Where am I?????????

Oh. The next tea room? Lovely. Thanks for moving me and Jackbaby. I heart you all.

Thank you for all illicit hugs, arm rubs, twiglets, drinks, etc. Feel much better now, although have spent all evening on MN doing research and achieved no work whatsoever.

Off to find teachery thread and ask them to do it for me for inspiration.

Meeting up in RL might be a tad dangerous ... you'd all twig I wasn't actually Mexican for a start (its the blonde hair and green eyes that do it. Conversations usually start pretty much along the lines of "You're not from round here are you?"; to which I reply chirpily "However did you guess? ... Anyway, I digress)

However, theorectically speaking we could try the Ansures, its supposed to be qite nice. If not, and the Europeans were feling flush we could try the Caribbean. Not quite halfway between us, but rather nice all the same.

Daisy : you're on. I bet I was more deprived that you. My mum was the original model from which all todays' "only 30 mins of TV a day" mums are based. It would be quicker if I listed to stuff I got to see. To whit.

1. ET (church outing)
2. Playschool (educational, apparently)
3. Most of Star Wars (although I was sent to bed just before Darth Vader kills Obe-One)
4. No, that's it (except bloody snooker and golf, which being my mum's passions the 30 minute rule was completely abandoned for).

Beat that then!

Racingsnake/Tea42, I almost forgot. I'm a Jacques Prévert fan myself as well. My favourite is the one where the lover leaves "sans dire rien" o something like that. It's really poignent.
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Perhaps we should invite him to give s a reading now we have established tearoom powers to raise the dead in a proper virtual manner. It's that or another cardboard cut out

UniS, you already know me too well

Meet-ups are not my strong point, though I have attempted them in the past.

We seem to have a lot more snow and as far as I can tell, there's several ecumenical participants still using the sauna . Do they pay extra for that??

Catita, are you sure Jacques would feel completely at home with George Clooney et al?

Amber - tea please! I got ds to school this morning just as it started to snow. Apparently, the way I find out if the school is going to close is by listening to the local radio (impossible at work!) and checking the 'blog' on the website. I have been assured that they won't just close the school and dump all the children out on the road!!!!

Catita - dh is also amazed at my lack of TV watching as a child.... Play school - swapped to Blue Peter, newsround when I was a bit older... but none of the series that dh seems to have been allowed to watch. I never even saw ET, although I did go to Star Wars (my American cousins had been to see it 4 or 5 times before I got to go once!)

Zazen pops head out of wormhole sauna - ah there you are!
Wow what's with all the cardboard cut outs - prefer inflatable meself

Oh it it lovely and warm in here. and is that coffee, oh yum!

My vote is for Mexico (coming from soggy n boggy Ireland...)
Warm sun, clear skies and delicious dry baked earth smells.

All snow gone where we live, but snowy mountains nearby have droves of people being rescued by airforce choppers.

Mummmm we seem to all have had the same experience wrt telly as well.
When I were a lass, we had a very old black and white set - got it when I was about 6 and we watched snooker on it! Yes, greyscalesnooker! we changed the station (only two) by twisting a screwdriver in a little hole round the back of it. And got the picture to stop rolling by walloping it on the side.
We have no TV now. Especially those energy gobbling plasma screens (drools) Dh thinks it's the work of the Devil. Oops sorry to wake you Your Grace.

I prefer the sofas here to t'other room. Much more squishy: nicer fabric too.

After our visit to the Jacques Prévert exhibition we had a little walk and ate cake and drank tea in this cafe...

www.linternaute.com/restaurant/restaurant/2795/le-loir-dans-la-theiere.html

I have made some Spice Cake using the Le Loir dans la Théière's recipe - I thought it would be great with Earl Grey (the actual tea not our horse) for elevenses.