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!

Mistle - I suspect it's just a terminal sulk caused by being transplanted. I certainly hope it isn't box blight, as there's a box hedge which I grew from cuttings and would be very sorry to lose. (Hope Mellors isn't reading this, as I was planning to feign ignorance and then invite him round on a warm spring day when he might have to take his shirt off. ).

Right-o, justabout. The libel lawwyers are on standby. Off to check what it says in RW about this place ....

Hello! Must have dozed off there. Not because what's been going on isn't interesting, rather because I stayed up late to watch a DVD about the Hubble telescope and it was so mindblowing I only went to bed at 4am! Amazing.

I agree with everything and everyone is lovely!

Justa I have something for you and will post it on anon.

We use godchildren as siblings and also have that contemporaries are now teens while DaisyBoy is 2 thing

also our neighbour has one delightful DD who is an only and older and they have a super sweet relationship

Mistle sorry about Mellors ahem clipping it turns out he was modelling on MJ's lewd rolls, not the book!

Justa I would love to know what your PhD is about? I have to confess that if you have mentioned it before, I have forgotten and thus have no idea what subject you are doing... although if it involves that many quotations I am kind of assuming it is something humanities like.... hazards a guess at Literature.
They are funny buggers, my DH is still writing his 8 years after we got married and six after starting the damned thing. My condition on getting pregnant was that he finished the dissertation before DS arrived. Not a bloody chance. He's promising this year, but we will see.

Oh, and words of praise for the tea room Thank you all very much, you have made me feel very welcome and included. You have even brought in a cardboard cut of of Paul Newman in his younger days . For this I am honoured.
Plus the booze isn't at all bad either

Oh and to you Prévert lovers out there. I finally found my fave poem on the web

www.learn-french-south-france-montpellier.com/article-7032905-6.html

Read it and cry for them!

It seems the big P is used to teach French (we studied him at A level) still!

Hi Catita Justa is writing about God and orgasms
not necesarily in that order

Catita - That's so powerful! I have resolved to listen to music in French this afternoon, to hone my language skills so that I can read more Prevert!

Ladies - I have just returned from Justabout's thread. This place is described as zany. Your verdicts, please! And she mentioned that we have flying pigs. Do we?

If racingpig gets thrown through the air at any point, I suppose that could be described as a flying pig?

Not sure about "zany" as a descriptor -
za·ny (zn)
n. pl. za·nies

1. A ludicrous, buffoonish character in old comedies who attempts feebly to mimic the tricks of the clown.
2. A comical person given to extravagant or outlandish behavior.

adj. za·ni·er, za·ni·est

1. Ludicrously comical; clownish.
2. Comical because of incongruity or strangeness; bizarre.

Yup, didn't think it was ideal. Wacky might be better?
wack·y (wk) also whack·y (hwk, wk)
adj. wack·i·er, wack·i·est Slang

1. Eccentric or irrational: a wacky person.
2. Crazy; silly: a wacky outfit.

now see, I prefer that personally.

Flying pigs? We did, until the Rabbi turned up, then we had to hide them in the back cupboard

MT - am now intrigued as to where you grew up, as I was born and raised in a part of Oxon that was Berks until the 70's - and whose health services were provided by West Berks HA. I lived in W-ford

Apart from DS wittering about his brother and sister (he names them as a brother and sister in his class - not twins, just 9 months between them) - which was disturbing at first as he started it the EDD 3rd birthday of my second baby - I don't think he suffers so far from being an only. He is terribly fond of our friends DD who is an only, as is she of him. We think it will save a fortune on weddings. They get to spend one weekend a month together, bouncing in the bath etc

My brother never has finished writing up his PhD. And DH realised after 6 months that he was not suited to doing a PhD (which all his friends knew from before he did it), and decided not to pursue it

Hi Bocca
I thought we had flying bishops? There was a Your Grace in the air a while ago?

The only pig I have seen was the Berkshire I was expecting in my broth but it turned out only to be some (albeit very lovely) veg.

I think we do need some pigs though, don't we?

my Dad neer managed to finish his PhD - he left it alone too long and then his initial research was too out of date by the time he got back to it and he couldn't bear to start it all again

For anyone who wants to wallow in French schmalz. It has everything - soaring strings, heartfelt emotion, the subjunctive!

My DH did finish his PhD [daisy preens slightly although she had nothing to do with it]

I might have kissed and hugged him a bit on reflectin

Yes - we do need pigs. Oxford black and Sandys, or Gloucester Old Spot ? Or both ? They are very social, and of course will deal with the veg peelings

I thought we had a saddleback and a Glocester Old Spot down in the orchard. At least, I thought that was why I was putting the nicer kitchen scraps in a special bucket....

I certainly made him about 1,000 cups of tea

Oh look!

so now we have lots of pigs!

I don't think I shall mention this not ever finishing a PhD thingy to DH. I don't want to give him ideas.

I do however want to hear more about Justa's PhD topic. It sounds suitably "wacky" to be allowed to be discussed in the tearoom .

Oh and I can't find this famous thread of Justabout's either...

That's the trouble with the tearoom, mention something and it is magically brought to life within its walls...

I don't know what people find strange about this thread at all. Seems perfectly normal to me

A square of Lindt dark chocolate, anyone? Very good for the heart and circulation, so I think I've just had two to be on the safe side.

Oink, oink! Snuffle, snuffle!

ooh, and some Tamworths as well, look, isn't he cute!
can we keep him can we can we?

From Thumbwitch - Zany: A ludicrous, buffoonish character in old comedies who attempts feebly to mimic the tricks of the clown.

Justabout's thread is called something like 'it's mean and it's back' in the religion and apirituality topic. I won't do a link.

Hello girls [this is MN after all], is this mum and DS or DD or just sisters ...?

Can I call my tamworth Wilbur then?
Can he play too? Will Pinky&Perky accept him into the tearoom pig clique? (I think perhaps the MN word "quiche" might be inappropriate for walking ham creatures...)