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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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MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 19/06/2009 22:05

Thumb - Would a Singapore Sling be of any help here?

Cocktail, anyone?

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thumbwitch · 19/06/2009 22:26

A few would go down nicely, ta MadBad.

although now finding that link has cheered me up a bit - how dated??

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 19/06/2009 22:37

A few? I'd better ditch the cocktail shaker in favour of Donk's galvanised bucket!

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thumbwitch · 19/06/2009 22:48

ooh, we could have a showing of "Rita, Sue and Bob too" - my archetypal 80s film! Those batwing jumpers, needle belts, white or pastel coloured patent stilettos... ahh, and the Princess Diana flick of course. I didn't go in for that but my sister was a Big Fan of it.
Although I had the blue eyeliner - didn't we all?

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 19/06/2009 23:03

Errmm, I didn't have blue eyeliner then. But I did have electric blue mascara.

Is Catita still around. I neglected to say earlier how glad I am to hear that she and her DS are getting better.

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daisy99divine · 19/06/2009 23:30

I had a Diana flick! and sparkly blue eyeline

sorry you are feeling glum Thumb, not sure what peri-MT means but perhaps a little exercise would help? A swim or a run?

glad Catita is feeling better. will she be wearing her sherlock holmes secret suit when out and about with her mum doing plans!?

thumbwitch · 19/06/2009 23:34

bless you daisy - swim or run at this time of night?? No, I'll just stick to the tried and tested chocolate and alcohol routine plus an ibuprofen if the pain gets too much.
periMT = peri-menstrual tension as opposed to pre-MT (i.e. during period rather than before it)

I had blue mascara as well. And purple, and jade. It was the thing to do - pretty sure it was Boots 17 as well...

DitaVonCheese · 20/06/2009 00:12

Evening ladies - can I join in? I'm sorry to have missed the beachside tearoom, but can donate an Art Deco cocktail cabinet and a leopardskin print three piece suite to this one.

I should be in bed but am trying to fing a changing bag I actually like, and on ebay too - urgh.

thumbwitch · 20/06/2009 00:26

Evening Dita - do have a neon cocktail and choose your 80s fave from the jukebox!

I confess, I never had a "real" changing bag. I use a suedette bag that my Mum bought me the Christmas before she died - it has detachable straps that have come in handy at more than one restaurant where they don't have harnesses supplied with the highchairs!

DitaVonCheese · 20/06/2009 00:39

God I miss cocktails ... My current favourite 80s tune is the spoof one Hugh Grant sings in Music & Lyrics - irritatingly catchy and DH and I have been humming it for days

I did originally go down the no-change-bag route and bought a huge travel mat from Mamas & Papas that I can use in any bag but I do so love all the compartments

thumbwitch · 20/06/2009 00:44

you're not a bag-whore are you? I have friends who are... they have many and compare them...

teafortwo · 20/06/2009 00:45
thumbwitch · 20/06/2009 00:45

ooh, now there's another interesting thing I have learnt about the italics on this forum - you don't need the ^ round each hyphenated word...

DitaVonCheese · 20/06/2009 00:46

Hee hee, god no ... That's exactly my problem, I just don't see the appeal of most of them, so finding one I actually like is a struggle. I do love compartments though - I think it's because my entire house is full of barely controlled chaos and tat. I dream of one day having everything in the right place, all neatly labelled.

thumbwitch · 20/06/2009 00:47

EXcellent! one set of ^ for as many hyphenated words as you can manage - hurrah!

thumbwitch · 20/06/2009 00:49
  • you're late tonight!

Ha, dita, sounds like my house. Except 90% of my house is now in a container somewhere - I aim to have it all neatly labelled in the right place when it gets to Australia but no doubt half of it will stay in boxes!

teafortwo · 20/06/2009 01:00

You are right I am very late tonight (I am an hour ahead of Blighty peeps and have work in the morning) what am I doing awake???....

mistlethrush · 20/06/2009 09:30

Sorry, I had an early night last night!

Dita - nice to meet you.

I had a change bag that I disliked intensly once I started using it. The only OK thing was that you could get the change mat out one handed if you could hang it up somewhere - so you didn't have to put dc down on something whilst you got the mat out. But it was uncomfortable to wear either over one shoulder or over both (rucksack style)

I think I managed to have the blue eyeshadow... although my hair certainly wouldn't comply with a dianna flick...!

MaryBS · 20/06/2009 09:36

Mistlethrush, how old is DS? I have a cream wedding waistcoat and cravat you can have, in VGC. I think DS was 4 when he wore it...

mistlethrush · 20/06/2009 09:56

Ds is 4 (but a fairly solidly built 4 ifykwim - he's not overly tall, he's not fat, but when he throws himself at you, you really know it!) Thank you for the offer! If you think it might fit we could be interested...

I forgot to say, I sent dh with a written list to M&S - to take back the black trousers he had bought ds as 'black trousers' for a play he's doing at school - dh had bought 'school' trousers which of course ds will never wear elsewhere. So dh had a list that said 'charcoal grey, flat front' - he got the flat front bit OK - but he brought back black ones instead. I would like to see him explaining that to the teachers... Oh, sorry, of course, that would be me! His excuse was that it was either black or the mid-grey - quite why he thought that black would be acceptable I don't know!

DitaVonCheese · 20/06/2009 10:21

Sorry - had to rush off and attend to screams from upstairs.

Hello mistlethrush Yep, there are lots of bags on ebay with "very little wear" or "only used once", which makes me a bit suspicious of how useful they really are!

I went for burgundy eyeshadow rather than blue - I must have looked like the living dead! And yesterday I finally managed to achieve the body and curl in my (straight) hair that I longed for all through my teenage years ... It turns out that the correct procedure is as follows:

  • get pregnant, thus fundamentally changing hair type
  • do the Mumsnet home hair cut and run round the house panicking and unable to go out for days because you cut too much off
  • wait about a month
  • don't wash it for two days but do do an exercise class so it's sweaty and gritty
  • tie it in a bun and sleep on it for two days

Ta da! So much oomph! But smelt like a yak

thumbwitch · 20/06/2009 10:53

pmsl Dita - sounds like a bit too much effort to me!

I never bothered - hair was never ever going to conform to that kind of style.

scottishmummyofone · 20/06/2009 13:29

hello girls, new thread!

shimmies in singing 'I will survive'

It's playing on the music channel

mistlethrush · 20/06/2009 17:07

Hi SMF1 - how are you?

Dita - burgundy sounds interesting !

Hate to tell you, but sounds like my hair most of the time - it does have a natural curl though - but, thinking about it I can't think when I last washed it - I did rinse it and condition it last weekend - but it didn't get washed... probably a month ago?

Jacksmama · 20/06/2009 18:22

Hi Dita!! And everyone else!!

I have to admit to having been a teenager in the 80's. So I had:

permed hair, with frizzy bangs
pink frosted lipstick and eyeshadow
blue eyeliner
purple or blue mascara
paisley jeans

Re hair: my hair didn't change one teeny tiny bit when I was pregnant. It didn't get any thicker, or change texture, or colour. That is, if we're ignoring the several more white hairs I've sprouted. However - it also didn't do that horrendous falling-out thing that lots of people report.
I do have to pretty much wash it every day or at the least every other day. Being, ahem, blessed with very oily skin and hair. If I don't, I swear I can smell the oil in it, and it feels terrible. But since it's in a chin-length bob it also takes five minutes to dry so no big deal.

A quick poll: how many of you, who experienced the "bionic nose" thing (extremely heightened sense of smell) during pregnancy never lost it after? Jackbaby is 16 months old now and my sense of smell is still like a dog's. I can walk in the door and smell it if he needs a nappy change. And he doesn't have really rank poos. His poo actually smells like blueberries. Honest - several friends of ours have said they agree!! (And they're not humouring the demented parents... ) His breakfast is oatmeal with banana and plum (from My Organic Baby) and it makes his poo smell like blueberries. To the point that we've started to say he has Blueberry Bum when he needs a change.

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