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Tea room the 5th - welcome to the yurt

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UniS · 24/02/2009 10:49

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

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Donk · 19/03/2009 21:58

That's all right Thumbwitch - no (real) offence taken!

I had a friend who went to a spa in Germany. They went naked even to the coffee shop...

I'm sure Mellors would look well, no so sure how a Donkey would fit in

Donk · 19/03/2009 21:59

I hope your tooth isn't too sore.

thumbwitch · 19/03/2009 22:00

I think a Donkey would fit in fine, but if you'd rather not then we'd best re-think it

UniS · 19/03/2009 22:00

LOL at bubbly baby.
How can one small boy contain soooo much foul smelling gas and not float.

Donk- I had you down as a Layyydeee with rather long hairy ears and VERY big teeth. oh, and hoofs, but floral frocks and hats for sure.

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thumbwitch · 19/03/2009 22:01

Actually, and this is the most amazing part, despite losing 2/3 of the surface structure, it didn't hurt at all. I know it was a filled tooth, but it wasn't root filled so I have been very lucky, especially as it broke on Saturday. It'll be a right bugger after it's been taken out, mind. I really don't want to get an infection in there.

UniS · 19/03/2009 22:04

LA LA aLA - thumbs in ears- I'm not listening. MT you are very stoical about a broken tooth.

We have MiL and FiL descending on us tomorrow afternoon for 24 hours... if I'm not back by Sunday come and rescue me.

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UniS · 19/03/2009 22:05

Donk- don;t race horses get taken swimming these days, I'm sure you could have a ramp to access the pool, with a galvanised bucket of tea or carrots floating in a rubber ring beside you.

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thumbwitch · 19/03/2009 22:07

now look, don't anyone take this amiss, but do MT and I look the same? It's the second time we have been confused (or I have been taken for her or something) - perhaps we are twins who were separated at birth...

CMOTdibbler · 19/03/2009 22:07

Ouch TW - that sounds painful

Personal grooming - left to my own devices, I would do little. However, job requires that I am suited, booted and groomed for conferences and sales visits. I have found therefore that by having long hair that is easily pinned up, my eyebrows tamed, and my nails dealt with by someone else, I don't have to spend very long to turn myself into the corporate image. Even at 5am.

On office days, it is pony tail, tunic and leggings and no makeup

Racing - you might like to ask your GP about some Sudafed liquid (it isn't prescription medicine, but has just changed to on GP advice for under 6's) for WS. DS is on it for his long running cough, and it has worked marvels in drying it all up and giving him a good nights sleep sans snot and cough

JM - try a washcloth which has been wetted and then twisted and put in the freezer. The cold wet is very soothing to gums

Lovely drive today over the Cotswolds - brilliant sunshine on the way back, terrible fog on the way

UniS · 19/03/2009 22:25

sorry MT and TW they do look sort of similar when I write them like that...

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thumbwitch · 19/03/2009 22:29

fair enough UniS!

mistlethrush · 19/03/2009 22:34

Yes - its a mistake also made by MJ - writing letters the wrong way round and starting Ws at the bottom so that they turn out to be Ms...

I don't think that TW and I are that alike though - I don't have any fillings for one thing - I had all the pain trying to get them to move - had to have alot more traction and braces etc to get them to move at all when I was 14... Even have a set of plaster teeth somewhere (they might have got thrown out in the move though) showing where my teeth got to after being moved.... Mind you, have only recently got all of one of my wisdom teeth, so its not exactly had much chance to have anything go wrong yet.

I do like the idea of a spa. We had a 'girls' day out from the office to a spa (paid for by the company ) and it was rather nice - and lunch was very good!

I think Mellors would fit right in.

Mind you, we might need to ask the Bishops to leave the orangery so that can be used too...

thumbwitch · 19/03/2009 22:43

oh MT - I have such rubbish teeth. Almost entirely due to deep fissures, very close together teeth and not being introduced to satin tape floss until I was in my 30s . I couldn't use normal stuff cos it gets stuck between my teeth (ouch!). Plus weak enamel.

I had a fair number of teeth removed in my teens to make space in my mouth (overcrowded with stonking big gnashers in a jaw too small) but had all my wisdom teeth - only this one was filled, had all the others fissure-filled to try and prevent problems.

thumbwitch · 19/03/2009 23:05

Donk, I have just thought - a spa would mean you could have your very own permanent ear-rubbing slave! Plus a special Donk-hammock for the pool etc. And you could get hooficures - think how much more you could get onto a hoof than an ordinary nail!

Jacksmama · 19/03/2009 23:05

Ouch!! re teeth - would some cold wine help or aggravate it?

thumbwitch · 19/03/2009 23:06

no ouchy yet, so chilled wine perfectly acceptable, ta muchly! No, the ouchy bit won't be for another 4 weeks (that's when it's coming out...[fear emoticon])

Jacksmama · 20/03/2009 01:11

We'll hold your hand when the time comes!
[reassuring emoticon]

Catitainahatita · 20/03/2009 03:01

Good evening,

Sorry to hear about your tooth Thumb . It sounds pretty nasty. The removal might not be as traumatic as you think. The last time I went to have a filling replaced and more drilling done I went in abject terror as the last time that toot had been filled (gettingon for ten years ago) it had hurt like buggery). Much to my pleasant surprise it all went well. Perhaps my nice gently Mexican dentist was better than my rough and ready Scottish one, but I think things have moved on somewhat on the painkiler front; ie they work these days.

Good luck anyway and lots of sympathy. And as for the name confusion... I think its because Mistlethrush and Thumbwitch make very similar patterns on the page and I am always getting you confused in my mind [abject apology emoticon] it helps if I think of you as Thumb and Mistle as then the patterns are significantly different.

In my life I could mention that is the general order of the day. Also I am utterly deadbeat. I wake up feeling just as bad as when I went to bed. My general pregnancy depresssion (PMT like thing that I got last time and could shift until after the birth when thinking positive magically seemed easy to do) is back too. Am trying to be sensible about it but am a bit down with it all. Am convinced all will go wrong in the next few weeks.... and can't see the bright side of much at the minute

But, DS aka "Pitufo" (Smurf) to his Dad is almost walking unaided. He at least is having a ball at the minute. Life, in short, isn't that bad.

Donk · 20/03/2009 05:47

Would Mellors be helping out with the spa treatments from time to time?

Ok, I'll try it!

Donk · 20/03/2009 05:49
Racingsnake · 20/03/2009 07:19

Thumb, don't worry about having your tooth out. I had four wisdom teeth out early in tea room history and it was a huge anticlimax. I was terrified, yet it didn't hurt either during or afterwards. Or rather, either the top or bottom ones didn't hurt AT ALL afterwards and the others (either the bottom or the top ones - sorry I can't remember) were more uncomfortable than painful. None of them hurt during the operation. Part of the trick seemed to be to have a meal and take ibruprofen before the extraction and then, theoretically, keep going eith ibruprofen and paracetemol together afterwards. Actually I only needed to do that for one. The discomfort was mostly at night, when lying down makes it worse. Sleep with a couple of extra pillows to start with. Each was completely better within a week and no infections. It is lovely not having cluttered, crowded, crooked wisdom teethe, just nice smooth spaces to clean.

Sorry, everyone who doesn't have teeth removal issues, for boring you.

Wriggle not sick last night and stayed in bed until 5.45 am! Just the one arguement about staying in bed in the middle of the night and no coughing.

Rather relectant about spa idea, but I suppose things have to move on. Trouble is, I have never been to a spa, and I have a very strong image of the tea room, with the distressed leather sofa, MadBad's bookshelf, curtains washed by me during an earlier sicky phase, aspidistras, overgrown gardens, stables, Mellors' shed, potager, duck pond, haha, Wriggle's favourite trampoline ... there are primroses under the washing line and you can hear the sea where Tea goes riding on Earl Grey sometimes ... I could cope with the yurt as I live in the West Country, which is a yurty sort of place, but I suppose it is now the turn of someone else, and spas do appear to be popular.

Mistle, bad luck the whole family being car sick. I suffer horribly myself, but luckily Wriggle seems to have escaped. I find that homeopathic tabaccum is helpful, as is petroleum for buses. Last week I test drove my dream car (a Renault Kangoo - I know, horribly uncool ) and had to decide against it because I felt sick driving it. In fact I have the day off today because the whole school is going to Bournemouth on two coaches and my Head has said I can work on Monday instead. The most effective thing I have ever found is an accupuncture point. You look at your wrist, where there are two/three lines across, and line up three fingers of the other hand along the middle line. That measures the distance down from your wrist. Then, just below the position of that bottom finger, you feel between the two long tendony/vessely things running down the inside if your arm and press in the middle. So easy to show and so hard to explain! Try it; it really works. It is the same principal as sea bands, but much more effective and doesn't cut off the circulation to your hands.

Good morning, Amber. I know you are usually the only one in the tea room this early.

Note to MadBad, who does not appear tp be an early MNer, not doubt due to no longer having early-rising toddler.

"Dear MadBad,

I recognised you in Sherborne Garden Centre. I know for certain it was you, even though MadBaby wasn't there. Obviously she was at school. Strangely enough, you didn't recognise me.

Next time, do drop in - RacingPig would be very happy to show you his hutch and his travelling bucket.

Love Racing"

mistlethrush · 20/03/2009 09:23

RS - the spa that I was imagining had the old tearoom at its heart - its just it had a swimming pool off on one side as well as the sauna down in the priest's hole... I mean, there has to still be somewhere to sit and lounge about with our teas/coffees/iced waters - I don't think it will be too bad

I will just have to keep my teeth in good order seeing as I can't have ibuprofen or parcetamol at the moment!

Catita - sorry that you're feeling and I hope that having the tearoom on hand will help with the . I didn't believe things were going to turn out right until ds was in my arms - and early days found it really difficult to get between MW appointments and scans.

TW - also have large teeth. Luckily have large jaw to go with them although they did all need pushing round... I've had some molars fissure filled - if that's filling up the deep crevice that's in the tooth in the middle...

thumbwitch · 20/03/2009 09:44

Yes the Spa I was imagining was definitely Old School - rather like the Baths at Harrogate, or Ancient Roman types with lots of lovely arches and spaces for distressed sofas and chaise longues and ivy/creepers going up the pillars and a view out to the gardens and absolutely NO fitness instructor types anywhere!
Just various pools but all within an open vaulted-ceiling hall so we can still all see/chat to each other - but of course with separate treatment rooms for the more private treatments - and a floatation tank perhaps instead of the priest hole...

thumbwitch · 20/03/2009 09:51

Thanks all for kindness re. tooth extraction - the [fear] is because there is only a bit of it left exposed so extraction might turn into surgical procedure; and if there is much delay between the two then infection might result.
God I hate teeth. serious design flaw - why aren't they titanium coated, instead of easy-peasy-to-destroy enamel?

amber32002 · 20/03/2009 10:31

Cor, what a morning...

Hello everyone. Goodness me re the tooth, TW!

Well, so far today, have woken up to find our huge old dog (Mrs A) has a back leg she can't use, so we've been to the emergency vets for some advice. Hip arthritis, which at her age is a Dodgy Thing. Fingers crossed that it settles with some tablets. And at the exact same time, the downstairs loo decided to start pouring water everywhere so our lovely plumber had to abandon his pyjamas and race round to fix it (er, after donning some other clothes first ).

We have to invent some sort of temporary harness/sling thingy to help Mrs A to get up. I'm no good at inventing new dog slings out of towels and etc. Nothing online that can get to us before next week, I've checked. Hmm...

I think I might need tea and a suggestive biscuit....

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