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

looks round

Mm, different.

I'll just help MadBad get the tureen OFF the trolley ... there. And I'll leave my new frying pan here (fancied pancakes less redolent of curry than normal) while I do the school run.

Hurrah! This way chaps!

Quick, let's get behind the aspidestra before anyone sees us!!!

Yeee HAAAWWW!!!!

DCMB These wretched things must have bitched a lift o the tureen you brought. I think we could do with Mellors (aka James Bond/Richard Sharpe)with his shotgun.

No, what am I thinking? This is the tearoom, and all are welcome. I'd better start filling up bowls of chocolate buttons to keep them all happy.

Does RP like chocolate buttons to? If so I shall have do a special one for her.

Boy busy "writing" his thank you cards! most of them seem to be for rafe tho, who will be surprised to get a dozen cards while no one else who gave him a present is allowed one at all.

Arrrgh, the naked mohawk babaies- they were hiding in teh soup tureen I'll be bound. So how do we lure them out of here... Will donl eating their carrots scare them off or are mohawk babies tougher than that.

OK, I now have to read a Mr Man book. Boy has finished his writing so mummy has to finish hers too it seems.
Dh used to enter kids classes in his local contry show. kid with kid ( they had goats) , that kind of thing as well as fancy dress and garden in a saucer.

"hitched a lift" ; "of choccie buttons" even. Oh dear .

Still I've managed to rustle up quite a few.

Who fancies a choccie button then?

Daisy - Paul is Paul Newman. I don't quite remember how - we must have drunk a lot of Bolly that night - but we somehow acquired cardboard cutouts of him and Wesley Snipes (clad in leather, for Blade) to accompany dear George.

May I share my latest elderly mother of one moment? I have just been to give my six-monthly pint of blood and the nurse, droning through the questionnaire, asked if I had been pregnant in the last 12 months. I invited him to look again at my date of birth. At least he had the grace to suggest I didn't look my (vast) age.

anyone else experiencing ishoos with the page display? this is the first thread it has happened to me - the advert at the top has an enormous amount of white space next to it so it looks like the rest of the page hasn't loaded - took me ages to work out what was happening!

naked mohawk babies came too did they?

Donk - just in case you didn't see my last post - glad your Dad's case is on the better side of the options so far, hope it continues up the positive scale.

lol MadBad - still, unless you're over 60, you never know these days!

Thumbwitch - Yes, it's happening here too.

I don't think it's anythign we can do, is it? It only started happening about an hour ago (I think) - I have created a thread about it to alert the Techy types.

HURRAHH we have lift off!!!

Come on boys!!!

Congrats on your blood giving moment, Madbad. It must have given you a chuckle.

Your ancedote has given me the urge to share two stories at once:

1. As a student I gave blood regulary. Once while enjoying the orange juice and biscuits I saw a friend of mine lying on a bed waiting for the nurse. I knew she was a afraid of hospitals etc, so I went over to hold her hand.

"Hiya" I said. "Don't worry you won't even realise its happening". Then I fainted and knocked myself out on her bed. I had to be taken back to my flat in the blood bus. My friend fled in terror.

1. I'm 33, not that oldish a mother but practically ancient in Mexican terms. At the supermarket a couple of months ago I was chatting with the lady on the deli counter. She complimented me on my DS, I smiled happliy and she said "Is he your grandson then?"

Daisy I'm afraid it is my fault Paul Newman is around. I asked specifically for his presence (expressly in his Cat on a Hot Tin Roof moment) as I fell madly in love with him aged 15. I hope Daisyboy's fingers are on the mend.

Donk I'm glad to hear the good news about your Dad. I know you are too far away, but I hope that he has people with him just now. He knows you are thinking about him I am sure. This will give him lots of strength, so don't gnaw your hooves away. Otherwise how are you to get around?

Ah, yes, Paul newman I had forgotten!

Love the idea of Baked Mowhawk Babies bitching a ride!

Argh, they've taken on a life of their own! Actually, they're quite sweet really.

picks wriggling naked mohawk baby out of chocolate button bowl

Ow, it BIT me!

flicks it back in bowl

The good news is that my new frying pan works very well. The bad news is that I haven't managed to save any pancakes for the tea room, and my sofa is covered in golden syrup.

puts kettle on in order to make amends

Typos rule!

Thank you Catita for your Daisyboy finger thoughts

they are doing well

LOL at your blood story. I persuaded a friend to come with me once. He had a dislike of needles but was too manly to say so. Something horrid happened, and his arm all swelled with escaping blood. He fainted. He had a terrible swelling and bruising for weeks. His girlfriend didn't talk to me for months

Pass the cuppa DCMB!

DaisyBoy came home from nursery saying he had made fishcakes took me a while to realise he meant pancakes!

Have just got home from school run. Clearly rather warm in the classroom today, and MJ had his jumper on when I went to collect him. We're due a haircut (Sat am). Combination of rather warm head and slightly too long hair? Curls!!! If I allowed his hair to be longer (I've seen some almost 'page boy' cuts around, but wouldn't impose that on him!) I'm sure he'd have the most wonderful curls - but I'm too worried about the almost inevitable nits and think it will be so much easier to spot and do something about quickly with a short back and sides - although I do get them to allow the front to go in the lovely natural V shape which follows his hair line, rather than being cut straight across...

I see the tiny baked bitching Mowhawk babies are taking up residence in the rafters - they seem to be making some sort of 'tarzan' type system for getting around up there - and there is a tiny rope ladder down to the chocolate buttons bowl as well... at least they are out of the way up there...

Sorry DCMB did my teeny tiny mowhawk catch you as you pulled me from the bowl of buttons??

Sorry about that...

Come on boys!!!

I'd be VERY wary of feeding those naked mohawk babies after midnight, you know.

Am clearly in good company with the injured digit crew though.

Love the idea of the bitching babies turning into something rather more sinister after midnight!

Anyone got enough fingers left to nurse a cuppa?

gotta go and make pancakes/ fishcakes again soon! Oh, rather terrified of being near the blender....

It does make rather a nice noise that Amber - ds would love helping to make similar noises with various items found around the tearoom. Perhaps we can set up a Tearoom almost gamelan group?

MT, not unless someone can find my earplugs!