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Tea Room the Ninth: I love rock and roll, put another dime in the juke box baby

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MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 16/06/2009 22:20

Welome to the ninth incarnation of the tea room. It's been a long and eventful road, from a tea room overlooking a cathedral garden to a beachside cafe, with a diversion via a yurt. Now - voila - we are in a music lounge. We cater for all tastes and, as this is a tea room of requirement, it manages simultaneously to be many things at once. For some, it is a 70s glam rock disco with a cool boho edge - glitter balls, smoke machine and much wearing of platform shoes and eyeliner. For others, a jazz bar where mellow music is played as cocktails are served. For still others, it's a concert performance of Spem In Allium. We still have a garden, with shady parasols for the summer, and a menagerie of pets. Our membership is international.

The tea room has few rules. Everyone is welcome. But anyone visiting with the sole intention of causing hurt or shouting abuse will be ejected by Mellors, the multi-talented gardener-handyman who (it turns out) is also a guitar wizard and rock god.

Please come in.

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daisy99divine · 30/06/2009 07:47

Morning Dita welcome back and good to see you again, oh goddess of the festivals - was it fun? I would have liked to have seen Neil Young, but then I'm a bit old

Hmm, squelchy raspberry muffins sound interesting!

mistlethrush · 30/06/2009 08:50

Rasperry muffins do sound good, and would probably go with a morning cup of tea very nicely!

UniS, another thing to do with excess raspberries is raw rasberry jam - blitz rasperries with some sugar - it will keep in the fridge for a little bit, but if you make any quantity you need to freeze it. And it is absolutely delicious, albeit extremely runny - best not to have butter as it rolls off, better to let it soak in...

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 30/06/2009 11:26

Oooh. Any more raspberry muffins left? They're my favourite fruit.

And although this 80s style bar has (naturally) a gaggia machine there's also a spotty teapot brought from the beach cafe. So would anyone like a cup of tea?

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MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 30/06/2009 11:28

Am deeply, deeply of Dita having been to Glastonbury (but slightly worried about mud damage to her wasp-waisted corsets and whether there were decent facilities for ruby lipstick application )

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daisy99divine · 30/06/2009 13:29

I suspect she just stayed in her Man Size champagne glass

I was just looking at a discussion about going to Latitude or Bestival or the Big Chill with kids and thinking "I wonder". DH is off away for the rest of the summer so it's just me and Daisyboy - would we be mad?

CMOTdibbler · 30/06/2009 13:44

I am still considering going to a festival on my own with DS Daisy. Although we don't have a camper, so would need to carry tent, duvet, etc etc on my own.

Poss WOMAD as DH flatly refuses, and I'd like to see Rachel Unthank and the Winterset. I suppose I could just strap DS to my back in the evening and let him sleep there whilst I listen to bands or whatever.

Tea please MadBad. DH used 'Comfy Crappers' at Download, and tells me that they were very plush and luxurious, so no problems for Dita

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 30/06/2009 16:15
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CMOTdibbler · 30/06/2009 16:25

sorry to bring the tone down, but they really are fab

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 30/06/2009 16:30

It's not the tone, just the name.

Would you like a Chelsea bun with that? Anyone else?

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UniS · 30/06/2009 19:46

Well I never- they have quite a web site- I see I have missed developments in teh festival loo scene by only doing little local fests in last few years.

Hi All.
Dita, how lovely to see you back, thats quite some outfit. Can you still throw shapes wearing that? Oh, yes, I see you can. well certain shapes anyway.

I'm about to go and water the garden with boys bath water, having cycled to preschool and childrens centre and had tea with home grown veg and fruit I'm feeling positivly hippy and not at all hip.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 30/06/2009 21:09

That's very impressive. Do you have one of those pump thingies for emptying the bath into the garden? I once recommended one on a gardening thread but don't have one mesself.

Would anyone care for a glass of very cold, very dry white wine?

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UniS · 30/06/2009 21:18

no pump- a jug and a bucket. managed to get nearly all of it!. Gave plum tree in a pot a good drink.

Water but was otherwise empty. now good for another day or two.

CMOTdibbler · 30/06/2009 21:51

I feel very ungreen.

Cold white wine would be divine

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 30/06/2009 21:53

Good to see you, Cmot! Cin cin!

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CMOTdibbler · 30/06/2009 21:58

Prost !

Some nice cheese and olives ?

The first of the local cherries were in the farm shop today when DS and I went in after nursery. We had a lovely time eating them in his new pop up tent and spitting the stones out..

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 30/06/2009 22:36

Ooh. A cheese and wine party! Delicious!

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DitaVonCheese · 30/06/2009 22:52

It was lots of fun, apart from the 13 hour journey to get there (last seven hours stationary in traffic with very hot and bored DD), the hysterical crying in the car park (me and DD, and very nearly DH too), the trek across the site (parked in the east to find main family camping full so had to carry everything to the west ie miles) and putting up the tent in the dark. Oh and then the thunderstorms. By this point it became clear we had severely offended the gods. All perked up after that though and had a lovely time for the last few days. Didn't see many bands though (though did walk past the Pyramid while Neil was on if that helps).

Let us just say that I managed to remain as wasp-waisted and ruby-lipped at Glastonbury as I do in normal real life

Afraid I haven't been to Latitude, Bestival or Big Chill so can't advise, though I have heard good things about all of them. Beautiful Days is another one that's good for kids, and very small and manageable (or at least was when I last went a couple of years ago), so not far to carry your stuff.

Did put DD in the sling one night but was actually a PITA as we couldn't put her down anywhere, had to dive for cover when it rained (it was the rainy evening) rather than just putting the cover down, and my Glasto backache had already set in with a vengeance. We did take a monster three-wheeler buggy which a friend gave us (and which we promptly replaced as it fills our boot and weighs a ton) which was utterly brilliant and turned out to be the best festival trolley I've ever used (DD refused to get in it when we first arrived, so she went in the sling and my rucksack went in the buggy - fabulous stuff). Happy to lend it to anyone within reasonable pick-up distance of Warrington

MadBad I have one of those pump things. It is in the loft, unopened in its box We did come home to some lush homegrown veg though.

I am on my second glass of rose - cheers!

mistlethrush · 30/06/2009 22:57

Ohh - cheese and wine? Count me in! I can offer some home grown raspberries and strawberries and redcurrants. Has anyone got some nice vanilla icecream?

We are greenish in the garden as we do have two waterbuts. Dh does still have to get one of them plumbed in... however, ds has worked out how to fill watering cans with the one that is in use - and its gone down about 18". I'm not quite sure what he's been watering....

Feeling fairly virtuous - planted some lettuces and parsley and a few tomatos, and potted up some more lettuces. Some small broad beans growing, as are th ecourgettes!

thumbwitch · 30/06/2009 23:09

evening all - hot enough for everyone is it? I am sitting here melting in to a puddle; I tried putting a fan on in miniTHumb's room but he whinged about it (doesn't know what's good for him!)

He had a lovely day today - we went into the garden so I could water the (nearly dead0 vegetation; turned my back on miniThumb and the hose just so I could open the tap more, and he had the hose in his hand - not only that, but he aimed it straight at me then shrieked with laughter when I got wet! So he did it some more. And more. I have some of it on video, it is hysterical really, bless him. Didn't like me doing it to him though, OH no!

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 30/06/2009 23:15

This is turning into a midnight feast!

I was sorely tempted to hold the hose over my head as I watered the garden tonight, so the ice cream is especially welcome.

Dita - which bands did you see?

I'm going to have a (comparatively) early night - I slept badly last night and need to catch up. So good night everyone. Mwah! Mwah!

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thumbwitch · 30/06/2009 23:23

night madbad

Oy! come back with the rest of that tub....

mistlethrush · 30/06/2009 23:25

I thought about the paddling pool yesterday whilst at work - dh said it wasn't THAT hot at home - however, he'd got it out by the time I brough MJ home - and MJ happily played in it after school (new swimming trunks too - how much better can it get) - he's been in it again today, although now the water is looking decidedly brown and grassy. Goodness knows what he has been doing with it Dh had a go at him with the water pistol too yesterday!

thumbwitch · 30/06/2009 23:29

oh DON'T tell me about paddling pools - we are still bemoaning the fact that we aren't clairvoyant and so packed the sodding paddling pool - it is now in a crate on a ship somewhere!

thumbwitch · 30/06/2009 23:29

sorry, should have been a there as well

DitaVonCheese · 30/06/2009 23:49

Bother bother you have reminded me that we have some fabulous raspberry ripple icecream in the freezer but I think it's too late to tuck in!

MadBad we saw ... um ... Well, we were there for all of Noah and the Whale's set (based on the one cheerful hit they've had, which made them seem like perfect sunny evening fodder), but a long way back so they were competing with two other sound systems blasting out some nice rock (for the good, as it turns out, since NatW were actually quite dirge-like). Then we kind of caught a little bit of Rolf, by virtue of eating our lunch in the same field that he was in, and some of the Lancashire Hotpots, by virtue of drinking some cider in the same field they were in. We did turn up for Tom Jones, but couldn't hear a thing as they seemed to be having an issue with the speakers (though we did have a nice crowd singalong to Delilah ). We heard someone making a bad noise in the Jazzworld field while we ate our dinner. Then we showed up for Bruce Springsteen but it was jampacked and we could neither hear nor see particularly well so gave up and went to bed. Meant to go to Wonderstuff but too tired Walked past Neil Young. And saw Nick Cave, who was pretty good, though we talked through him

I think that's it.

We did however spend many happy hours in the caberet tent, outdoor circus stage, kids field and wandering wandering ...

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