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

Oh DCMB, a counter to you "what we do to african animals" my DH works a lot in Africa and went into a school/ tent where there was a terribly sort of Home Services printed poster on the wall of Animals - all pigs and sheep and Bockett Farm specials that were double dutch to the kids

Next to it was a great poster of Animals the kids had drawn - many different antelope, lion, giraffe etc....

clearly we do it world over!!!

CMOT, gel overlays sounds positively kinky!

Thumb - pass the bolly!

CMOT perhaps your DH could quote on Maternal Numpty insurance? He is in the biz isn't he?

Donk here, have a little massage and hoof rub

I don't have many wise words, but a (((((hug))))) and a paracetamol for the morning after all that B&HC!

at Donk - umm, just a leetle bit, honest

Thanks for teh hot choc, V chocolaty.

LOL at teh farm animals poster in wrong school. we used to have thse at my city school, just as out of place, the only animals we ever saw were grey squirrels, urban foxes, cats and dogs. We were taken to London zoo as 10 yr olds to be shown cows being milked and see sheep for real.
I had a reasonable understanding of how cows worked before this from watching the see through cow model in teh canada section of teh Commonwealth institute.

DH has vetoed my turning teh stripey rug into a poncho will have to find some other stripy fabric.

night all.

Boo hiss to DH hasn't he realised how fetching you will look and that afterwards you can use it like MoonFace in the Magic Faraway Tree?
but he might think cutting a hole in the floor to fit was a bit too much
night all
x

Morning all! How is everyone?

dh's birthday today. There'll be cake later....

Maternal Numpty insurance - DH says that he thinks the actuaries would feel the risk not worth writing the business for. He also says that he is very happy that if they did do it, he feels it unlikely that a maternal numpty event could make it to his handling level (500,000) - since it would be the most emotional hothouse of a claimant

Happy Birthday Mr Amber !

Sorry, appear to have missed rather a busy night.

Unis - Pennywell - would they still be valid in July? Did you get them because you've been? (What did you think!)

Amber - please pass on happy birthday congratulations to Mr Amber from me too! Would you like a cup of tea? I also think of you as very articulate and confident. Of course, I wouldn't say it to your face - I might leave a note on a postit somewhere for you to find it... I think people on 'that' thread were rather perverse in their interpretations, so I wouldn't worry.

Still no shortbread - do you think we've scared her off?

DCMB - nice to see you again. Sorry that the car's being such a pain. When the local Sainsbury's redeveloped, the first time I went round I said to dh that the car park didn't and wouldn't work. 6 weeks later (and, I am sure, quite a large number of dents) it was all changed round. I also said it wasn't big enough - 18 months later they extended it...

We've got both Ocado and Waitrose deliveries here - is there really that much difference between them? Its a lot cheaper getting them delivered than going to the store whichever due to the reduced temptation - its a lot easier to buy what you need on line!

Who was it that wanted to try the size 8 tesco sandals - it was probably 2 or 3 threads ago when we were talking about excessively wide feet - I've found them - just need to post them out....

Anyone for coffee or tea?

I'd love a cuppa, thanks.

Hmm, articulate and confident? . Good. Thank you.

As for people's interpretations, there's always some strife happning in the autism communities. Low-functioning v High functioning, this therapy v that therapy, your child gets more funding than mine and doesn't deserve it, etc etc. It really is like herding cats, or nailing jelly to the wall, or sweeping air into a pile. And I'm no good at debates where there's loads of opinions and not enough data.

Had far too much fun yesterday with Ye Olde Jag, bless it. It's been sat on the driveway for a while thanks to dh not being well, so thought it deserved a bit of a tyre burning race sedate stroll round the block.

Shall behave myself now.

Did Mr Amber agree to the sedate stroll or did he have no say in the matter?

No say whatsoever

Does he know? Or, indeed, was he in it at the time [just as evil grin emoticon> (possibly a BAD IDEA though, as he is meant to be recuperating at the moment )

Oh yes, he's absolutely fine with either of us driving the cars, but you'll be pleased to know that he was safely indoors

Besides which, after his test-drive of it and what happened, he's not in a position to comment on racing starts. I think that salesman eventually recovered...and we've both learned Not To Touch The Accelerator with more than a feather's worth of pressure under Any Circumstances and especially Don't Press the Go Faster Button unless you're on a track.

Wow! Too much here for me to respond all at once but, Cmot, thanks for the offer of DH's insurance expertise.

Our problem is that the accident happened abroad. The bunch of unscrupulous inefficient bandits insurance company sold me down the river once before (the other party told the most transparently bogus story about how the accident occurred and rather than challenge him - the story would have fallen apart after a nanosecond's investigation or a letter saying "come off it" - they just said it was all too difficult and settled 50/50. Goodbye NCD, grr) and I think they're gonna do it again. They apparently have to work through some sort of intermediary in the UK who liaises with the insurers abroad, but it seems that the intermediary cannot trace the other driver, even though we have supplied name, address, (different) name of the vehicle owner, registration number and insurance policy number. I find it hard to believe that the other party really is untraceable - unless they are a criminal mastermind with a false identity, surely at least some of these details would track them down?

Is there anything we can do to kick butt speed things up a little? Can we demand to see the file, to check exactly what's been done to expedite the claim? I wondered about a complaint to the Ombudsman but I doubt they're interested in ongoing claims and, anyway, I'm worried that the bandits insurance company would then put my file through the shredder and the claim would never be concluded!

Sorry to ramble. Soup, anyone? The magic supply of lewd rolls is still not exhausted, I see.

And many happy returns of the day to Amber's DH.

I've had some experience of car insurance. The claim where the on-coming car decided to turn right in front of me without waiting for me to get out of the way first (it was raining - I skidded to a stop in his passenger door) - I basically chased myself - turned out that he shouldn't have been driving on his own as he only had a learner's licence and was driving on a cover note - which they wouldn't have given him if they'd known he was a learner... Eventually sorted that out - mainly as I (yes, me!) was speaking directly to their insurance company....

More recently we were driving in the city centre - at traffic lights. As we pull away I heard a screach of brakes from the set of lights behind us and thought . Next thing I know, instead of being able to follow the main road round to the left which the road markings clearly indicated we could do, a car came up on our LHS fast and pushed us into turning right - their rfront bumper in our wheel arch area. As we were blocking a main junction we had to move - we managed to limp to a nearby road - they followed, saw us turn off and paused at the end of the road and then sped off.

Initially they said it was our fault - and put in a claim for injuries - but I kept on sending more information to our insurance company (even pictures from Google earth - its amazing the detail you can get to on that) - then they backed down a bit and said that they would go 1/2s - then I saw their insurance claim which had damage including the back bumper (yes, it was damaged, as was the back wing, when we saw it, but it was nothing to do with them crashing into us!). Meanwhile I had whiplash too (although not too bad) so added that to the whole thing - eventually I think that their insurance company gave in and paid up, but it took probably 14 months.

I hope that you get yours sorted out a bit quicker!

mistle- by hapy co-incidence it was i who was after size 8 tesco sandels, shall we swap them for pennywell farm vouchers.sarah at unicyclist dot com .i don;t recall a cut offdate other than 2009 season. they are sent to local chilrens centres as a " coulouring" sheet to get the penny well leaflet into the centres. I've not been, but d is interested in the fathers day pasty and pint offer.

sorry for no caps. tping one handed on net book while boy cuddles up to me watching a dvd on PC. Tractor ted in winter.

thanks for early morning yurt tidying. maybe it was the NNMBs 2am barn dance that had me dreaming abut going out on the town. but i had the wrong colour shirt on and it clashed with my waistcoat so had to borrow from someone else.

hapy birthday Mr Amber.

tractor ted nearly over now. off to sainsburys, will try and avoid dinnging car.

Good morning girls!

to hear about Madbad and Mistle's insurance problems. I hope they can be resolved.

Happy birthday! to Mr. Amber. I´m glad I wasn't around for the testdrive of the very fast car. I hate speed; am a real woos who complains on the motorway and keeps her eyes shut (if not driving I hasten to add) if we go over 60 mph.

I spend half my working life dealing with insurance companies. Never a delight. Really hope it sorts out soon.

Have just survived a visit to the bank to pay in a cheque and deal with the horrors of the cash machine, so enjoying a nice cuppa. Anyone else for one?

Yes please! And you mentioned cake I believe?

Cuppa would be lovely, thanks Amber

Happy Birthday Mr Amber, are you gonig to have cake and candles later?

I have to say CMOT your DH doesn't have much clue if he feels a Maternal Numpty claim couldn't reach £500,000 - I reckon that would be the starting point

There might be cake and candles. Well, at least cake. There's certainly balloons and banners

Small, medium or large slice?

MadBad - DH says he doesn't know much about inter country claims, but that it's time to escalate to a complaint (you have to exhaust all of the companies complaints procedure before going to the Ombudsman). Call and ask to be transferred to a supervisor, and then if they can't tell you what is going on and why, then ask for their complaints procedure and write them a stiff letter.

Amber - DH is really a very nice insurance claims person . It's just that you don't get through to people like him until things have gone terribly, terribly wrong

Cup of tea would be lovely as I gird myself for a conference call to sign off documents

A domestic full clean has just occured as we felt the house was a bit grim for the babysitter to withstand tonight

How does someone gird themselves?

Blimey, it could be an iron hoop, a missile, or a sort of chastity belt!

For a good mental image of a "gird" I always think of those medieval long tassly type of belts that the sort of pre-raphaelite's wear. Think Ophelia but of course she is lying down and under water and flowers so not very clear...

CMOT - far more important that tarting up the house for the babysiter, how are you tarting up yourself for the Big Night Out - did you go red or magenta? Nails? Full mani-pedi? We need details woman!