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

Wow TW, you mega musically talented one. You could send me some of your musicalness in my direction, could you? I can't sing for toffee, don't understand music at all [jealous emoticon]

na, jack of all trades me, master of none! one of the reasons I kept trying different instruments was to see if I could find one that I was a natural talent at - nae luck!

But feel free to borrow my jack-of-all-trade-musicalness!

In truly poncetastic fashion I have just scraped and dented my car in bloody Waitrose's carpark. I am currently blaming ... Waitrose for having a stupid two-level parking thing. I did suggest to DH that it was caused by DD wanting me to look at birthday cakes in the Australian Women's Weekly book I've borrowed from my friend, but she started to cry and I had to tell her it wasn't her fault, it was mine for being such a muppet as to listen to her (words to that effect, I WAS nice). I also blame the blood test she'd just had at the doctor's, as I reacted more strongly than I'd expected to my baby having a needle poked into her (she was always very good with jabs, but they're easier than having blood taken, and she cried terribly).

I can't possibly think of five interesting things about me. My stand-by interesting fact is that I once shook hands with Nelson Mandela ... someone once misheard me and though I said I'd shared a house with Nelson Mandela, which is clearly the plot of a sitcom.

oh DCMB - you have to put that in there! And that you have just scraped your car in Waitrose carpark (they don't have to be interesting facts, just random ones - I made the mistake of reading everyone else's first and then got a bit carried away with my own "magnificence" instead of just going for nice random facts - like that my neck has a muscle that keeps randomly seizing at the most inopportune moments!)

Wow - I knew you lot would be interesting! We will now have a scene with MadBad tapdancing and the music will be supplied by Thumb. I'm not sure what Zazen will do - a bit worried, really! JM must make jewellry.

DCMB - WS was born premature and they were worried about something (can't believe that I can't remember exactly what now!!) but I had to take her back to hospital every week for a long time for blood samples. Her hands were so small that they could never get the needles in and they used to use her for trainee doctors to practice on, so it took even longer. She, as you say, used to cry terribly, and I would invariably be crying as well in the end, because she would hold out her arms to me to rescue her and I couldn't ...

Oh Donk!

One emergency bucket of carrots coming up. Do you want chocolate dipped or honey roast ?

Thinking of your Dad, and crossing all appendages. Did they give any indication of how long they think the surgery will take >

CMOT - they haven't said anything about duration that has been passed on to me. It's difficult when I'm so far away. I got passed around the telephone system for half an hour (expensive!) before I managed to talk to Dad yesterday. Today was better fortunately, and DS said a very splashy hello to him from the bath.

Honey roast carrots sound good - thankyou.
And a bucket of universal panacea (AKA tea) please.

Some surgeons do give estimates and some don't on the principle that they never actually know how long things will take till they've actually started.

Good that you managed to speak to him today.

Shall I call Mellors in to stroke your ears ?

A small celebration in the CMOT house today - DS has managed a whole week of no toilet accidents whatsoever and with very little prompting to go. Therefore we will be going on an outing of his choice tomorrow - and unsipringly, he wishes to go to the farm to feed the baby lambs. He must have been going on about it all day as when I picked him up from nursery one of the very little ones was arrotting 'see baby lambs'

No guesses on when DH will reappear tomorrow though - he's off at an awards ceremony tonight and it always seems to involve lots of drinking and some cigars. Apparently all the best gossip is obtained by being outside with the smokers

Congratulations to your DS CMOT.

Ooooh, I have gone all hot and bothered at the thought of having my ears stroked by the inestimable Mellors!

(I hope that you find inspiration Justa!)

Ey up our Donk

ooh, lots of good vibes to Donk's Dad - when my niece had hers done, my sis was told the op would take between 9 and 14 hours - it took just over 9 in the end.

congrats to CMOTD's DS - hope the baby lambs live up to expectations!

Have just dumped DS in his cot - he was asleep, I swear it, then as soon as he touched the mattress - pow! wail, wail. I know he is manipulating me so after lots of cuddles (him standing in the cot) and me telling him I do love him really, I've left him to cry it out again
I just hope he remembers to lie down before he falls asleep....

It's good to see so many people here tonight. Anyone else want a glass of champagne? It's laudable that Justabout is still swotting up for her study group but perhaps she could be tempted?

Donk - all appendages here crossed for your dad.

Cmot - hooray on the lack of toilet accidents. We left toilet training very late but it was all over mercifully quickly, while other children we knew who were 'toilet trained' as soon as they were two were actually getting though five changes of clothes a day for six months.

Sparkly rainbow vibes to Donk and her Dad. Hope all goes swimmingly.
Humm.. you might try this company who sell call vouchers. I use them a lot to call abroad and they work really cheaply. CelticTel. As you can see from the drop down list and see calling from UK and calling to Australia Melbourne costs 0.055 USD$ a minute, so that's five and a half cent a minute - not bad if you have to stay on the line and don't have a Skype phone. HTH

I was thinking the Ninja Mohawk Babies were something like Luggage there for a minute!

And no - at ease ladies, I'm not in MI6 I just didn't read the thread before I posted and forgot to mention that the training we gave to the repressive regime was to make them more open, and less repressive!
I shot at Uni.
I learnt how to pick locks at school when my favorite loo was always locked and yes,
I can read palms - I've reading palms all my life - my Grandfather was stationed in India and learned it there, and I use his methods - and I am pretty good at it.. It's a bit of a party pooper actually, as no-one actually wants to know really!!

Of course I can bake bread and cupcakes, biscuits and muffins, and make up funny songs etc etc so my skills aren't all totally to waste regarding DD

It is an interesting thread isn't it!

Congratulations CMOTD - that's fabby! You can now officially leave the house - and a farm sounds like a splendid idea, as you can supervise a wild wee or two if needs be

Justa - have you thought about having an Anne Summers party for Revelations?

Blimey, {cringe} I hate the idea of taking bloods from veins - couldn't even get DD her BCG in the hospital, as I thought she was too small at 3Kg for the injection - you are all a lot braver than me!

Catitainahatia - hope you are all cleaned up and recovered by now. Your DS's teddy is officially The Lovey now that it's been erm.. baptised, no?

Cor! Mellors is rather handsome in this light isn't he?

Eh up Zazen.

zazen - I couldn't even start to consider giving DS the BCG at 1 day old - I know how horrible mine was at 15, no way I was putting him through it!

Madbad - I'll have a glass of that please, with an extra shot of grappa - DS woke up about 20 mins ago, went up to settle him and he was standing in his cot again So I gave him another feed and he was asleep, I swear it - until he hit the mattress again - BOING! Now he is roaring his head off and I am trying to ignore it. At least I left him lying down this time...

Thumb - Here's a glass of Bolly with grappa. I must try that some time.

Donk - More tea? We probably have something which is caffeine-free if you need to get some sleep.

cheers MadBad! I love grappa in moderation - I can only drink fruit-based spirits now otherwise I get really ill...

I hear no wailing - I think he has gone to sleep...

Thumbwitch, Jackbaby does the same thing. He can be fast asleep and as soon as I lower him down to his cot, he wakes up. I read a study recently (warning: [geek emoticon]) that said that some babies are more sensitive to changes in vertical elevation - meaning, some sense that they wre being lowered down into a cot, and some don't. Ours appear to be the former. That's why we have persisted with co-sleeping so long - it's not worth the hassle. But also, because I am too lazy to get up in the middle of the night to nurse and am adamant that I will be nursing him until he's two (unless he has other ideas).
When are you moving to Oz? And forgive me for prying (feel free to tell me to MYOB), are you a lone parent? I seem to remember a post about your little man having to get used to "no dad".

Haven't the lists of 5 things been fascinating? I am now off to see if I can find any pics of jewelry I've made to post on my profile.

OK, I have posted pics of jewelry I've made on my profile. Visible to any MNer.

First hurdle over - the op went well, and Dad is awake. Have to wait for the Docs to tell me more now.

Aren't the NMBs making sweet little snoring sounds?