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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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thumbwitch · 09/07/2009 23:43

Cheers - we only see the bits of CBeebies that are on after 9am on normal BBC2 - I haven't seen Doodle Do but will have a look anyway (prefer Milkshake before 9am, heresy I know )

CMOTdibbler · 10/07/2009 08:56

Hello all. DH didn't win, but the exposure meant that he had some very interesting chats with people, so that was good.

I had better email JM with the details of meetup. Think I know what I'm doing now whilst in Ca. At least vaguely

RacingSnake · 10/07/2009 11:32

Very briefly dropping in - I will be out rather than in in the near future when it comes to the tea room, I think, due to school hoidays, holidays in France and various things.

Wriggle is a snob - she actually likes the programs on Milkshake better, but always asks for CBBies because she seems to think that is the thing to watch.

Speaking of Wriggle, we spent an eventful evening in A&E last night. Wriggle had been running at top speed around the garden shouting 'Kokoriko', the race track including a flight of brick steps. She missed a step and crashed down on the edge of a step, cried for a bit, seemed fine, then suddenly fell asleep. I panicked because I couldn't make her wake up properly and we ended up in the hospital. It turned out to be the shock which had made her fall asleep, not concussion, but they still told me to wake her up every two hours all night. This morning I am feeling rather fragile, while Wriggle is very pleased with herself and has a rather small Piglet plaster on a rather big bump on her head.

thumbwitch · 10/07/2009 12:44

ooo RS, that's scary. Hope she's all right now.
miniThumb has a bad habit of using the house as a racetrack now it is 90% empty of furniture - yesterday he cracked his knee on the doorframe - a beyootiful blue/purple lump has come up in it. Bless him, he takes after me on the bruising front - spectacular and very easy. He's pretty good about getting on with it now, has a quick wail and then carries on.

CMOTD - that's good, isn't it - maybe a good thing he didn't win? Don't want them getting too swell-headed now, do we!

primavera risotto, anyone?

RacingSnake · 10/07/2009 12:48

Mmmmm. Risotto please! Much nicer than my ready-meal chow mein from the village shop. Turns out to be noodles with carrot sticks.

CMOTdibbler · 10/07/2009 12:55

Ooh, yes please.

That must have been really scary RS

DH would have been unbearable if he had won, so yes, a bit of a relief.

Am supposed to be having a day off to clean up the house before visitors tomorrow. Turned on PC this morning, and worked... What I'll do to avoid floor mopping eh ?

Catitainahatita · 10/07/2009 17:19

Gosh RS, I hope your heart has managed to return to its normal place in your chest and is beating more or less regularly by now. How horrible for you (and Wriggle, obviously). DS tried to go down the patio steps by himself at my mother's. I was in the kitchen getting a cuppa and thought that the door was still shut, but someone had just opened it and wandered away. Suddenly I heard a crash and anguished screams from garden. He'd fallen head first into some [thinks] chrysanthemums. No bleeding but a big big bruise and also lots of worries from me about concussion. There are three steps and he managed not to hit his head on any of them, in fact i think he got down them quite well, it was the last step down that got him. I still felt shaky about it for days afterwards.

CMOT: I hope you find the will to pick up the mop soon!

thumbwitch · 10/07/2009 23:54

Just wanted to let you all know that I and the rest of the Thumb family will be in attendance at the Hampton Court Flower Show tomorrow - so let's hope it doesn't pee with rain! Last time I went it did just that and was a swamp - don't want a repeat.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 10/07/2009 23:57

Drat! I couldn't face the HCFS this year. If I'd bought a ticket we could have competed with Cmot and Jacksmama for most esoteric meet-up location (although actually California would be bound to win, as the meeters-up aren't Californian)!

Would RS like a consoling glass of Bolly? Would anyone else?

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daisy99divine · 11/07/2009 01:48

Oh HELL, I would have come to HCFS too - we could have had a veritable LOVE IN! As it is, well, enjoy for us Thumb

Hope you had a better day today? I know that feeling about it all being a bit wrong but nobody can help - I generally end up eating crisps drinking wine and feeling worse about myself in such circs...

Well, I have limped to the end of an exceptionally busy week - so bad that I have barely seen DaisyBoy who threw a bit of a wobbly when I finally made it home for supper tonight, cried and cried but I think got it out of his system and then spent 20 minutes saying WAKE UP Mummy as I tried to read his book.... actually at 11pm I awoke to find he had given up and was snoring

Racing, so sorry to hear about Wriggle, although in the circs it is you I am worried about it's hard to get small piglet plasters for the heart. How is your DS and his work concerns?

CMOT can't wait for the Great Cal update!

Don't tend to watch CBeebs - I record odd programmes, but there is a sad dearth of Postman Pad SDS at the moment - a daisyboy fave....never seen the Do Doodle bloke, just his ads, but will hop over to the thread

JM you are my new hero. with your GP of the week discussion

thumbwitch · 11/07/2009 09:53

sorry, had to run off last night as miniThumb woke upi earlier than normal and wouldn't settle again

Hot chocolate and blueberry muffin, anyone?

I think we are going to go to HCFS tomorrow now cos the weather looks better tomorrow than it does today!

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 11/07/2009 18:58

So what about a tea room love-in at next year's HCFS then? We could all wear straw hats and waft about with a trug. And, who knows, Mellors might even be tempted to leave the potting shed and come and buy a new trowel and pair of thigh-length waders, ready for the next time we have a moat!

Commiserations, daisy, for your taxing week. Does DaisyBoyNanny live in and perform Mary Poppins-style wonders? And how are racingsnake and wriggle now?

I too have had a very busy week - in the last ten days or so I've worked the equivalent of another week in overtime - so feel the need to chill. On the black ash table over there (well, this is an 80s bar) you will find a buffet of crisps, olives, masses of twiglets, cheese and pineapple on sticks, a selection of wines (mostly won on this afternoon's bottle tombola, so of variable (ahem) character) and a large pitcher of Pimms.

Please tuck in before the NMBs, racingpig and racingmisspiggy launch one of their raiding parties.

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RacingSnake · 11/07/2009 21:05

piglet plaster for the heart! Wriggle very proud of said piglet plaster.

Very wet here.

CMOTdibbler · 11/07/2009 21:12

V wet here too. However, 30 miles a way it was hot and sunny - I chose to go to the wildlife park as had to be out of the house all day with DS and it has lots indoors. Dressed for rain. Spent all afternoon boiling hot and carrying excess stuff around.

DS crushingly disappointed this morning that we were only going to a school for rugby (village hall booked for wedding) - he thought he was going to school

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 11/07/2009 22:13

Shomehow, the jug of Pimmsh now sheems to be empty.

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thumbwitch · 11/07/2009 23:36

Damn!! Too late for the Pimms...

UniS · 12/07/2009 12:25

got rather wet yesterday.
still drying out.
boy being rather charming this morning, will all go wrong once Dh goes to Cricket and boy realises he isn;t going, but has a day at home with mummy instead.

thumbwitch · 12/07/2009 21:54

Evening all!

RacingSnake · 12/07/2009 22:24

Where is everyone? Just dropping in for a moment myself, inbetween planning Wriggle's third birthday party, getting quotes for the car insurance, tidying up after a marathon cake decorating session and simply collapsing.

Wriggle has now gone completely feral. RacingChat has developed a killer streak and is frequently to be seen eating a small bird or shrew. Wriggle is very impressed by this and spends most of her time with her cheeks bulging with some form of small (invisible) wildlife, which she must be encouraged to spit into your hand, so that it can be dried and returned to its natural habitat. So far today we have had to rescue several birds, a couple of mice, a frog and, strangely, a sea horse, which rejoices in the French name of 'hypocampe' and had to be placed in the bath to recover from its ordeal. This is of course the worrying downside of a lack of human siblings as role models.

thumbwitch · 12/07/2009 22:28

lol RS - I shall look forward to this sort of thing from miniThumb, if no sibs are forthcoming.

RacingSnake · 12/07/2009 22:44

Think I remember MistleChick has an alterego who is a horse. I remember reading about it and thinking 'strange' but not realising that my daughter would soon only be communicating via miaows.

And the less said the better about the walks we go on with RacingCollie, when he stops to sniff at a more-than-usually pungent badger dropping and Wriggle falls to her knees to sniff it too ....

Two different comparison sites have now allowed me to spend 20 mins putting in all my details before admitting that they have a fatal error and asking me to try again later. I don't think so.

Bonne nuit!

thumbwitch · 12/07/2009 22:47

good night RS - I do hate about 80% of the internet for that sort of reason.

Better luck tomorrow!

daisy99divine · 13/07/2009 01:26

Well, we have made it! I now have a 3 year old boy. Amazing I guess I no longer have a babay or a toddler

Thumb if you were at HCFS I was very close at fmaily just across the river / I hhave been making Palymobil since about 7:15 this morning and other joyous things. Unfortunately DAisyBoy went to sleep in car on way home so then had a second wind. Only finally got him to sleep at about 9:30. In my bed. Holding several playmobil people. And a truck. I am a little anxious about going to join him

LOL at Feral Wriggle. I have just realised the way to get DaisyBoy to play happily for hours is to put him in front of the mirror. He stands in my bathroom with toy on the side and talks to himself in the mirror. ANd practices expressions. It is hilarious. If a little concerning ...

We don't have AlterEgoSolo here yet. I must encourage it. I don't want to be left behind

Racing. How are partyplans going? If you were thinking of a pirate theme I have a pirate flag and a blue felt sea with fish and waves on it I could lend?

I was just thinking how you ladies have all beomce rather special to me. As we drove down to my mums today I put on radio 3 instead of 4 to give DaisyBoy a chance, remember MistleChich liking it so much, and I was thinking of Thumb in HC and CMOT and JM meeting up and UniS off cyling somewhere and all of you out and about and it made me happy

So thank you all....

daisy99divine · 13/07/2009 01:29

oh, MadBad in answer to your kind question, yes Nanny does live in and yes, she has been a total hero. On Friday (she knocks off at 6 and mostly goes away for the weekend) I was so busy I hadn't even managed to phone her to tell her I was stuck - not until 6:15 so after she should have left. She said "don't worry. I have got DaisyBoy's supper and am giving it to him, and I cooked you some too so you have one less thing to worry aobut, it is in the oven keeping warm"

and when I finally got home about 6:40 she didn't huff and rush off but stayed and chatted for a bit nad then left and then texted because she had put out things ot make me a cup of tea and had forgotten.... so yes, I think over and above the call of duty in the nicest way...

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I am going to the shop tomorrow and am very excited

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