Tea room the 5th - welcome to the yurt

[UniS]

Welcome to the tea room. 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.

You have found us- did you like teh slide/ bridge over teh HaHa. Teh priest hole is still available, its just over there.

Mellors and I have erected the yurt, strewn rugs around and good a good fire going in the wood burner. The place is feeling toasty and warm with not a draft to be felt.The kettle is now singing away on the hob. selection of teas for all taste on the shelf along with the hand made by potters mugs. Mellors very ably fitted teh yurt window with a window sill onto which can be placed a selection of pot plants and george.

Can someone sort out RP ( who I think came over with the sofa) and plump up the hay pile for donk.

A Previous incarnation of Tea room may be found here

Donk staggerstrots in carrying four cardboard boxes, two strapped to each side of her back.

EEeeawww - where do you want them UniS?

That looks like a lovely soft pile of hay for me to recover in!

Any carrots?

ooo, a Yurt!

pancakes - lemon and sugar please!

sorry to miss the bolly and sherry last night, but I missed the packing up too, so can't complain

That's not a very big bowl of twiglets

WHAT is a yurt? Where am I?

What a charming yurt. I do feel we ought to be featured in 'My perfect Eco home/work space Monthly'

I've always fancied staying in a Yurt. And now I feel ready to take DS camping we might do it this year. DH was muttering about buying a bigger tent - I pointed out that ours was supposed to be a 5 man tent, so might be OK for a bit longer

There's no corners . How can I hide in a corner if something scary happens?? Oh my!

Right, I can carry more now I have taken off my shirt
Maybe these leather sandals should go too.

Now that is up there are plenty of dark corners for those who wish to hide

Donk I meant to say good luck with your dad and hope the news is ok, it's a good start!

Tried to find link to Beaver site but couldn't, would be interested for DaisyBoy (in time!)
Yum to pancakes, yum to sherry, it's not old it's too cool for school

Catita glad your thumb is ok, DaisyBoy's fingers are on the mend too.... not sure when I will be able to face cooking with him again though

there you are Donk

anyone else?

Me please!

I've never before seen a Yurt with a Garden Room extension - it seems to be the best of both worlds - a nice warm, cosy place in here, with a really light, garden overlooking part over there - ideal for keeping an eye on the children as they play on the slides.

Donk - good news - hope it continues in the same vein - and I hope that you don't get all of the phone calls at 2.30 in the morning.

MJ has been doing some art work - so I thought I'd bring some in and make it look as though we'd spent £££££ on abstract art for the tearoom. I think that one with the spikes is a dinosaur...

(In fact, its really amazing - he's starting to draw things that you can really tell what they are by looking at them, and not only with a 'mothers eye' ifykwim [grin)

I like that dinosaur!

Did you see Grand Designs with that chap doing the white cube in hastings? His art work - as he lovingly called it his marshmallow faces? well MJ knocks it into a cocked hat

Ah! look at those boys on the slides!

By the way, I have about the Royal Show - what and where is it?

Thanks I'll tell him (yes, I did see that 'art work'!)

The Royal Agricultural Show, Stoneleigh - Based at the Royal Agricultural Society's HQ. My father was a member so we could always get discounted tickets! Its not as good as it used to be unfortunately - I used to go every year and it was fantastic - great 'country' shopping (crafts, plants etc), big plant demo tent, huge flower arrangement tent, WI tent doing teas on a grand scale, lots of animals exhibiting, and a food hall. Has scaled back considerably - I think people might be doing their own county shows more and not bothering so much with this. But there is a main grandstand where they do the key judging and also displays - JCB dancing, household cavalry, scurry driving (but that was a competition anyway), heavy horses etc.

We went to the Royal show last year - hadn't been there for years. It used to be very much a farmers show, but is trying to find it's way a bit. Last year was apparently smaller as they had just bought the land and so had to cut spending. Link to their website here

Nearest really good shows to you Daisy would be either Newbury (just off the A34/M4) in September, Herts County (Harpenden, although I haven't been for a while), or the South of England (Ardingly). We are near the Three Counties, and that is very good - even better for not being one that I attended regularly as a child. As we showed the goats, we were at a show every weekend from May till end of September, some being overnight milking trials. I'm delighted that some of the main ring entertainment is still the same people going round.

good idea about the room screen, lots of corners. sorry i hadn't mentind the garden room extenstion, wanted to leave some surprises. the suana is just out that door, now housed in a Tee-Pee ( or it Tippi to be PC these days- you know, a wigwam, but big). lunch over , boy nw slumped in front of charlie and lola dvd. must get him doing something soon or he will put down roots.
i kinda fancy a yurt holiday, but they seem kinda pricey and we do have a tent.

maybe we could have a tea room entry in the county show later in spring. RP would surly win best gp in show. lady grey might be good in the gymkarna. and the goats....

fantastic!
CMOT I love the idea that you spent your summer showing goats
I seem so pedestrian by comparison!

Pass the lewd rolls!

I'm sure that we could do something on the 'interesting cake' front too...

Wow! What a well-appointed yurt. I'll just unpack Wesley and Paul, our other two icons.

Daisy - London does have its own country show, you know.

Shall we have a cup of tea to celebrate our arrival in our lovely new domain?

There, thanks MadBad and you have been pretending to have no rural blood in your veins all this time!

I did go to the Innocent fair in Regent's park last year, which was fun but not many goats

Unpack paul? Who he? I had a sudden vision of Paul Daniels must be the rabbits....can't think why

rest of brain blank

I thought we had Daniel Craig...

The trouble with 'country shows' is that they aren't actually that agricultural - the great thing about the Royal is that you can wander round huge barns that are full of lovingly washed animals that have happily gone to sleep and got dirty again with the associated country smells - and you can see which got the rosettes etc. Its really interesting watching them getting washed - for some they get brushed the 'wrong' way so that their coat is all bumpy and some of teh bulls are HUGE. Probably the funniest thing to watch is the pig judging as there is almost always a pig there who is absolutely determined not to go where it is meant to go at the rate expected and either sits down or rushes off in completely the opposite direction.... In contrast, some of the sheep have obviously been handled so much that they walk like a dog on a lead!

Having said that, we did enjoy going to 'the Yorkshire Show' at Harewood last year - particularly the birds of prey person who ended up losing some of her birds for some of the time as the local red kites were a bit too interested and made her birds frightened (the red kites were a lot bigger!)

The strange thing is that I thought that goat showing was rather pedestrian No excitement like in cattle showing (ie, will you be dragged across the showground by the bull you are showing), rather more predicatable than pigs (if you haven't seen pigs being shown its hard to explain the fact that they are just steered round the ring by someone with a wooden board and a stick trying to stop them fighting each other or pushing the fence over, so just constantly move), and no where near the glamour of horse showing. But generally a nice bunch of people (as there is no money in goats there isn't the bitching of dog showing), and you get in free to the shows and have somewhere to keep all your stuff.

These are the type of goats my dad had.

I always like the produce tents as the judges get to write such rude comments about the cake and jam

X posts MT - glad to see that someone else enjoys watching pig showing too

Loads of red kites where my parents live - they like the fact that what the bird books say about their behaviour is wrong. And my dad (being odd and all) whistles to them to get them to come closer

Am intrigued by pig shows now!
the nearest I have come to any sort of showing is Best in Show the fabulous mockumentary on dog shows