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

daisy!
Now, I shall let you into a little secret - when I am doing massages on people, usually the male clients, there is a move on the back muscles that always conjures up in my head the picture of a fat Turkish bloke in a string vest doing it in a steamy Turkish bath environment - it always makes me smile!

well, Thumb, the manouvure that I winessed from our steam room in the Turkish bath was of a man having his legs pulled up and over his head (so his knees were pushed to his nose)

From where I was positioned I had an ahem clear rear view. It was more than lewd rolls that were winking at me through the foam I can tell you

Tell me, please, this isn't the move on the back muscles you think of!

NO! not at all, the client is face down at the time and it is a chopping move followed by picking up the muscles and rolling them in the hands (percussion and petrissage) - if the client has sufficient flesh to get a good handful, then the Turkish string-vest bloke image pops into my head .

Betcha Jacksmama has the same thing sometimes!

Am even more at what you saw! brings new meanng to the idea of turkey giblets...

It was the moment that the bloke doing the treatment turned to me and my friend and with a crook of his finger said "LADIES - you come now!"

Not blooming likely was my first thought

don't blame you at all Daisy! That would be enough to send me flying to the safety of the changing rooms, I think!

Yes, the speed with which we left that place put me in mind of ....

Benny Hill!!!

Only as we ran very fast and naked out of the baths were were thankfully not pursued by a small man in boater and striped blazer!!!!

Right, going to have a small sleep on the sofa if I am not deafened by the sounds:

(1) some snoring Not So Naked Baked Babies up on their teeny tiny next of curly straws and liana vines;

(2) the snorts and snuffles of pigs, enjoying the fact they were Saved from Sarnies

(3) some rather high pitched squeaks from RacingPig and RacingMissPiggy emanating from under the sofar

(4) the thundering hooves of the Bison

and.....

Crikey moses! I think I can see MadBad dancing in the light of the Full Moon, revelling in the glory of her nakedness over by the Ha ha with Mellors in a leather apron waving his tool ...

(5) and the sound of a Bishop falling out of the window of his Palace - I thik he might have leant too far trying to catch a glimpse of madbad take the night air

night all!

night Daisy! Sweet dreams...

Blimey, that was quite a night then!

Morning all. How are we? Nice cup of tea on the go...

Morning Amber. It all kicked-off after I'd left last night

How are you this morning - its sort of sunny here (grey sky in lots of places, but the suns coming through a break at the moment which is rather nice) and not too cold - how about where you are?

Would you like a cup of tea and some toast?

Dh has been cooking a bacon sandwich for MiL who stayed last night - MiL is going to have a talk with dh before she goes and try to get a bit more enthusiasm going.

Toast? Lovely.

I'm fine thanks. You? Much entertained by excellent talk by expert last night.

Hope that the talk does indeed lead to more enthusiasm. Do you think it might?

Weather here sunnyish, but bloomin' cold if you ask me. There again, I can get cold in the middle of summer...

I was absolutely freezing last night. I first got up to put socks on - then I shivered for a bit and failed to warm up properly so got up and put trousers and a jumper on too I think I might be a bit over tired and somewhat under the weather!

I can't sleep without my hot water bottle and two duvets! dh despairs of me

morning all!

I was baaaad last night - I put the CH back on at 2:30am rather than go in to DS and put his blanket over him; but it still didn't work, he still woke up and wanted fed and then wouldn't go back down.

TW - do you use sleeping bags? We found these really good for ds - and had warm ones for the winter and lightweight ones for the summer.

I'm normally fine - and in fact mainly under just summer weight duvet - but I think that is partly because dh insists on having a really warm duvet and acting as my own personal boiler all night. Last night, however, I had got too cold before he came to bed and then couldn't warm up so it didn't work as well as it normally does.

I don't use them, MT, because DS likes to be able to kick his blankets off if he gets too warm - and he has overheating issues as well, always has since he was born - I never saw a baby sweat so much!

If I left the heating on all night it would solve the problem but I have just had my latest gas and electric bills in (for a 5m period ) and they were a bit too huge, so no can do! Not every night, anyway.

TW - we have a very hot small person too - particularly if I let mil put him to bed as she insists on adding at least one blanket, and preferably two and a quilt on top of what he normally has - until recently we were lifting him for a wee when we went to bed, and if she'd put him down I would have to pick up a slippery, damp small boy - I think that he told her not to put his quilt on last night though as it was neatly folded at the end of his bed - and he was just under a sheet! However, I did find the grobags good - winter he had a longsleeve sleepsuit and a winter weight one, summer a vest and the summer weight one - worked quite well for him and meant that he didn't wake up too cold in the middle of the night.

thanks MT - I'm aware I'm sounding somewhat ungrateful here but I think I still won't do it - we were given a few sleeping bags when he was tiny but he didn't like being put in them and I was concerned about the temp; now he wriggles around so much and gets to his feet in the cot, I'm worried he might get all tangled up in it! [pathetic emoticon](me, not him!)

I had similar feelings to start with TW, and in fact didn't try ds in them until he was 5 or 6 mo - but then found that he settled better and was really happy in them - colleague at work has his dts in them at 4 or 5 and they were walking round the house in them. Ds could quite happily get to his feet - probably the nappy and all the boosters in a big red fleece wrap was more constricting to his movements . Ds went into his sleeping bag before his last feed - happily lay in his bag for his feed, then the bag was all lovely and warm already so he went down without a problem. It won't work for everyone, but it certainly helped for us (and ds was really difficult to get down at all to start with!)(you would never believe it now )

hmm, ok, you're starting to convince me... maybe I'll look into it some more then!
DS has such a tendency to fall and bang his head, I just don't want to add to his miseries by creating a situation where he will be headbutting the cot-sides in the night!
thank you for persevering!

TW - I don't want to twist your arm really!!! However, I do know that you've been having some sleep issues - and I know that we started off having 'putting down' issues - and the grobags really helped. I would be really careful that you make sure he's not going to be too hot - or get cold - but that might mean turning the radiator down a bit in his room so that it is not as warm when he goes down at night so that it then doesn't cool down as much. Ds really didn't have any problem falling over or standing up with his.

In fact, thinking about it, from what my mother says, I would have been good in grobags - my mother used to have to pin blankets round my warm flanelette nightie that she'd made me as I was always up doing things until I fell asleep so never under the blankets unless they were fixed to me!

Hello everyone!

I just wish to make clear - are you listening Daisy? - that I was not disporting myself naked down by the haha last night. Au contraire. Mellors and I were simply working out the choreography for one of the dance numbers in the forthcoming Tea Room, Yurt: The Movie, as we need to be sure that Meryl Streep and whoever we agreed was playing Mellors will be able to master the moves. I was wearing a flesh-toned body stocking - did you not notice the sequins? And that was Mellors' megaphone, through which he was shouting instructions in the manner of Cecil B de Mille on the set of The Ten Commandments. I am an artiste, daaarlings, and Mellors was just helping me with my Muse.

Now, who would like some soup? There's some rather nice watercress, made from Hugh Fearnley-Wotsit's recipe in Saturday's Guardian. Lewd roll, anyone?

That soup sounds good MB.

I did wonder about the sheen on you that I saw later on when you came in. Must have been the sequins...

BTW, is that the remains of said body stocking up in the rafters - I think that the nmbs have made it into teeny tiny hammocks - it is rather lovely looking up at all of them rocking gently with the light reflecting off the sequins!

Yes please, lewd roll and soup for me too.

MadBad, a muse, eh . Amazing what they call it these days...

Hooray, I've finished my database! This calls for a celebratory cuppa to go with the triumph of it. (I'm too easily pleased, I think).

Ere, come back with my lewd roll, you lot!

I wonder if there is any soup left?
Not quite a breafast staple, but it would go down quite well I think.

Thanks you MadBad for clearing up the confusion vis-a-vis late night cavorting with Mellors. I assume you didn't manage to knock up [aherm?] any new bookcases while you were at it?

Congrats to Amber on finishing the database. I think you deserve a wee bit more than a cuppa to celebrate: how about a chocolate covered shortbread?

Anyone else?

Thumbwitch: my DS has used grobags since we visited grandma's at Christmas (they don't have them in Mexico). They are SO MUCH BETTER than blankets and can be purchased in a variety of togs for different temperatures. DS is a big fan and insists on getting into the bag before he has his story then he can get into his cot with no fuss. I can't recommend them enough.

Racing How's Wiggle? No news yesterday, I hope this is s good sign.

Choccy shortbread? Even better! Yes please....

How are you feeling today Catita?