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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 · 02/07/2009 00:55

LOL at Croydoness tonight
CMOT am impressed with your dress range. Like the Debenham one. Sadly the Bravissima one reminds me of my tragic Boden experiences earlier this summer....

Am very at tea room norkage. At my most hefty bfing stage (enough to stop my sister in her tracks to say DAISY LOOK at your NORKS!) they were still only C cup. Now back to their old don't-even-qualify-for-a-cup-cup. BUt I can fold my bingo wings across my front to look like norks....

mistlethrush · 02/07/2009 09:04

Daisy - I try not to otherwise I end up with double knorks . I normally hover somewhere between FF and GG - and bf doesn't seem to have had much of an impact really. except that I regularly get prodded and told 'I drank milk from those milky things when I was a baby'.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 02/07/2009 10:17

Daisy - Tell us about your Boden tragedy!

Would anyone like a cup of tea and a croissant?

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thumbwitch · 02/07/2009 10:22

I'll see your tea and croissant and raise you a hot chocolate and pain au chocolat (can anyone see a theme here? )

thumbwitch · 02/07/2009 10:23

actually, maked that an iced chocolate instead, given the stickiness of the day!

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 02/07/2009 11:28

I'll take your iced chocolate, but raise you an apricot Danish pastry.

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daisy99divine · 02/07/2009 12:00

I take the hot chocolate and I raise you a chocolate brownie from the fridge

Well. Boden. Going to a 40th and quite excited. Fancied new dress. Got 20% and free post and pack offer coupon thingy from Boden. Made really glorious and wonderful red jersey dress that had rave reviews, long length, wasped waist and V neck really rather good value.

Style looked like my kind of style. In fit of love and 20% off enthusiam got DaisyBoy lovely T shirt and DaisyHusb lovely shirt.

Package arrived with much anticipation in Daisy Towers.

Tried on dress. It could not have been worse. If I hadn't been laughing at DaisyHusb's carefully arranged supportive features I would have cried. The colour mad me look dead. The V neck made my lack of norkage look like a medical tragedy. The hip skimming clinginess of the jersey made my hips and bottom and thighs look, well, I could have given the Hottentot Venus a run for her money. And money back

And of course the Boys loved their clothes and have lived in them ever since

daisy99divine · 02/07/2009 12:03

by the way am loving the image of Mistle keeping her arms sort of up and about to prevent a Double Norkage incident

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 02/07/2009 13:42

Oh, daisy. I am so sorry for making you relive your Boden ordeal. It's always galling, I think, when the bits you buy for other people to fill up the parcel turn out to be wonderful and one's own gear has to be sent back.

I am old and fat blessed in the hip and thigh department but prefer to think of myself as callipygous, in the manner of these laydees.

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CMOTdibbler · 02/07/2009 13:59

Sympathies Daisy - I find jersey dresses to be rather tricky as they tend to accentuate the negative on me. I am also small of nork - when bfing I made it up to an F cup. When appraising DH of this wondrous event he said that I certainly didn't look like it

Am trying to work out if I really could work from the paddling pool today. Tis too hot.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 02/07/2009 17:25

When I was first bf-ing, I had what looked like two cruise missiles strapped to my chest. DH was rather repelled. again.

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daisy99divine · 02/07/2009 17:50

DaisyHusb has never been a Nork Man (well he could hardly be and wed to Ms Daisy No Norks could he!) it wsa my sister who used to fall about laughing at the unexpected cruise misiles mortars strapped to my chest

I have been "working" with my feet in the paddling poor. CMOT, I recommend it.

mistlethrush · 02/07/2009 21:44

No, I find Jersey to be a little too climgy where I don't want to be clung too...

Dh got worried when I went on WW and was losing weight - he was concerned that I would loose my norkage. HOwever, when I went down to a reasonable weight I seemed to go down in strap sizes and stay the same cup sizes. 30GG bras aren't that easy to get hold of . Working my way in that direction again...

UniS · 02/07/2009 22:09

raspberry muffins and lemon curd cupcakes on the table. consider them an early birthday cake from chez uni. i turn another year older tomorrow.
i went wedding dress shopping in croyden. my parents live not too far away. i never lived any where near myself you understand.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 02/07/2009 22:36

Ha! People's guilty little Croydon secrets are coming out of the woodwork now!

Happy birthday for tomorrow, UniS! Here's a toast to your good health and a jolly day.

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mistlethrush · 02/07/2009 23:02

Hippo birdie two ewes
Hippo birdie two ewes
Hippo birdie deer UniS
Hippo birdie two ewes...

Obviously for tomorrow though

thumbwitch · 03/07/2009 00:21

Happy birthday UniS!
Ta for muffins and cupcakes, yum!

Have a beautifully wrapped present of your choice.

And let's hope it's not as sticky tomorrow as it was today.

mistlethrush · 03/07/2009 08:50

Brings in a slightly lopsided, slightly wobbly cake with some candles on and plonks it on the table - its a bit moist because of the raspberries - but it should be rather good on a day like today... Happy Birthday!

UniS · 03/07/2009 08:54

arrrrh, thanks guys. what a scrummy cake, and just teh right number f candles. and such a nice present, I've never seen a tw bar wrapped so nicely, and with a box of chocs tucked in there too. Thanks.

UniS · 03/07/2009 09:49

TOW bar of course

CMOTdibbler · 03/07/2009 09:51

Happy Birthday Unis

mistlethrush · 03/07/2009 10:01

I thought you went for somethign shorter than a Tow bar, given the reduction in no. wheels!

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 03/07/2009 10:12

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Birthday bunting for UniS!

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daisy99divine · 03/07/2009 12:22

Happy Birthday UniS
thanks for the muffins and the cake!

we have had rain so not so sticky today

I am in a tissy of expectation because DAisyBoy is having his Pirate Party tomorrow! Can't believe my baby is nearly 3

daisy99divine · 03/07/2009 12:23

should my expectation be a tizzy?

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