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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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Jacksmama · 20/06/2009 18:26

Oh, MadBad. In ref to Spem in Allium: thank you for the translation of the word spem as Latin for hope. Much appreciated. Even more appreciated was the fact that I still PMSL'd because (my mind was wandering) I was under the delusion that aliium has something to do with garlic... I seem to remember that garlic contains something called allicin. So... I started thinking that Spem in Allium means "hope in garlic"... ... which sounds like something out of Buffy The Vampire Slayer .

I really shouldn't let my mind wander, it's too little to be out by itself.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 20/06/2009 21:19

at Hope in Garlic. Well, they do say it's good for colds.

Hello, DitaVonCheese. I love your name and assume you're bringing some wasp-waisted, ruby-lipsticked glamour to proceedings in the tea room.

And thank you for the art deco cocktail cabinet and leopard skin three piece suite. If that's your notion of chaos and tat, I like it!

How is everyone tonight? Would you like another cocktail as you watch the cabaret?

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mistlethrush · 20/06/2009 21:24

JM - re allium!!!!! Have sung it. Off th etop of my head its a 40 part for choir... it could be a few more - I really can't be bothered to find my part which is in the dining room somewhere....

JM - do you use cloth nappies or disposables - I noticed that cloth actually resulted in less of a 'smell' as the nappy itself didn't have its own distinctive 'wet' smell!. Sorry, clearly hippy mother, probably resulting from being born in the 60's... although even dh thoroughly approved and was happy to use and change with them.... I was remarkably restrained though, particularly when I see the number of nappies some people seem to amass - we had the number that was needed! (Although I did manage to get some really cool wraps!)

MJ, in bed, singing alphabet song to himself (I'm not sure he got to the end) at 7pm... dh out playing in a concert (I managed to sit through 30mins of the rehearsal with MJ without throttleing him) and managed to watch ER which is really unusual . What I want to know is what happened to Abby's son - the one that she did have when she started as a nurse...?

mistlethrush · 20/06/2009 21:25

OOOhh - I didn't know that cocktails were on offer this evening - what have you got?

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 20/06/2009 21:29

Mistle - Cocktails are always available. I assumed everyone was knocking them back before I arrived tonight! What would you like?

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mistlethrush · 20/06/2009 21:53

Oooh - but sometimes it seems to be a bolly evening, and sometimes a merlot evening... What do you suggest? ANd how was your Saturday?

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 20/06/2009 22:00

My Saturday was lovely. MBB went to a lunchtime party, so MadBadBloke and I had lunch a deux, which was rather nice. Then we went to the Festival Hall, to see James May's plasticine garden. Since then, MBB and I have been finishing off some, ahem, craft projects for tomorrow and I've been doing some craft of my own, ready for the school fair. And now multi-tasking between MN and CSI! What about you?

To get back to the 80s theme, I was thinking of having a Tequila Sunrise (which prompts further thoughts of the Eagles and about the similarities between the tea room and the Hotel California). Would that suit you?

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mistlethrush · 20/06/2009 22:27

Sounds good to me!

Had fine day - nothing special - dog walk (OK, MJ walk is the priority!) - lunch, take Dh to rehearsal and try to keep MJ STILL and QUIET (and STILL and QUIet etc etc etc) for 30mins of the rehearsal - then nip into town on way to the bus - change shorts for dh, get something to eat for MJ - get something to drink for MJ (!!!!) catch bus.....

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 20/06/2009 22:42

That sounds like a good day. What instrument was dh playing in the concert?

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mistlethrush · 20/06/2009 22:59

Double Bass.... The reason I had to persuade work that I needed an estate - otherwise it was impossible to transport ds and myself at the same time as the bass....

DontCallMeBaby · 20/06/2009 23:20

JM, allium is the onion family, you're not entirely deluded. No idea if there's any etymological link between hope and onions ... I did get the right one there, didn't I? I have to think about which is etymology and which is entomology. Not good to confuse them. Words. Bugs. English professors. Gil Grissom.

DD and I have been to see Angelina Ballerina on stage today. It was very girlie, quite good fun. Then we (and friend and her DD) went to Pizza Hut. DD made a lovely marshmallow soup with the ice cream factory.

Currently just finishing the glass of wine I have awarded myself for Valiant Achievement in Transversing the Swindon Magic Roundabout Twice Without Swearing.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 20/06/2009 23:24

Cheers, DCMB!

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DitaVonCheese · 21/06/2009 00:40

Evening ladies! Hope you are enjoying the cocktail cabinet. At last glance it contained all sorts of sticky bottles half-filled with things like parfait amour and creme de menthe, so drink up

Hi JM Thanks for the invitation. I was only just a teenager in the 80s - I really hit my teens during the grunge phase, which means that I am now the only woman in the country not obsessed with the Take That tour (but if Nirvana were touring - ah!).

Hope/garlic - I once sat through a Christmas Eve church service in France and was very confused by all the references to what sounded like peche (fish/peach?). Turned out to mean peace

MadBad I can be ruby-lipped and wasp-waisted in here if not in real life, can't I?

We've had an abortive evening after trying to go out for dinner and failing (damn our lack of reservations). By the time we got home DD was starving so had to get her a dinner of random fridge contents before trying to settle her (she is currently asleep in her chair next to me, so you can see how well that went). Then dinner of emergency-shopped pizza in front of Hancock (shite-ola) and I've just remembered that I forgot to put the nappies on to wash so am waiting for them to finish. At least it's my turn for a lie-in tomorrow - on father's day, meanly, but he had his today

Jacksmama · 21/06/2009 03:52

DH is out tonight with his boyfriends - he is best man at his best friend's wedding in two weeks and tonight is what they call the groom's stag party here... he is going to try to remain sober so he can be the Designated Driver (which makes everyone else the Designated Drunks, I suppose?) but doesn't expect to be home before 4 am. Which leaves me with Jackbaby for tonight, which is entirely fine - I really don't mind when DH goes out - but I deserve the [stupid emoticon] (a smiley with a dunce cap comes to mind) because Jackbaby and I were out running errands, and he fell asleep on the way home, so I took him out of the car seat and laid down on the couch with him for a nap, and we just woke up. It's 7:30 pm. Guess Who will probably be up until 9 or 10 tonight. As if we haven't had enough bad sleeps this week.

thumbwitch · 21/06/2009 09:18

we have stag parties here too JM - but in Australia they are called buck's nights. so much more entertaining namewise than the American bachelor party (unless I have that wrong and that is for something else entirely!)

miniThumb woke suddenly last night roaring - I guess he must have had a bad dream, he didn't settle for a while and wouldn't let me put him back in his cot either. I wonder what gives babies nightmares?? So I ended up with him in with me all night again, not restful either, sympathies, JM.

Has anyone else been tracking the light sensor story on here? The thread of course developed into the usual God Exists/No He's Imaginary "debate" - and I've just seen that Justa has outed herself as being called growingup on that thread. Hope she pops back in here.

mistlethrush · 21/06/2009 09:41

Morning all. We thought we'd cracked it yesterday - I had set us up so that MJ knew that his breakfast would be ready in the kitchen - and a juice ready for him to put water on - and he can get the milk out of the fridge (OK, so I did make sure it was only half full!). Worked fine yesterday. This morning he yelled for me. When asked why he said 'so you can make your breakfast' Thanks MJ

Yesterday MJ nearly took himself up for a nap - but we were going to Dh's rehearsal so he didn't. Today he undoubtedly will go and have one. Last Sunday dh woke him at 5pm - he had supper and went back to bed

Will have to move soon so that we can take MJ and the dog out....

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 21/06/2009 22:08
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thumbwitch · 21/06/2009 22:19

evening MadBad - how are you this fine night? Have a Malibu and lemonade or something equally 80s. (For some reason that seems to be the era of choice in this tearoom!)

We have had a pleasant Father's Day - went to my Dad's for lunch and had a nice afternoon in his garden - it's bigger than ours by a long way so miniThumb can play footie and run around. Plus he gets to dig in the soil! AND put it in a bucket!! AND play with the mini-watering can and help Grandpa to water stuff; and then he gets to eat raspberries and strawberries straight off the plants! He's in 7th heaven there.

Hope yours and everyone else's went well..

daisy99divine · 21/06/2009 22:41

tra la la¬ lovely to see you all and welcome Dita and welcome back SMF1!

Lovely weekend. went to Hampstead yesterday and played with friends but have house envy = it's all neat and has photos up and everything. I returned to Daisy Towers to find large hole in kitchen roof - yet more rummaging due to Leak of Unknown Origin which has so far led to hole in wall, holes in floor, condemning of all boiler... and no conclusions [sigh]

No musciallness here and no washed nappies, I managed degradable disposables but that's all

JM I still have the nose of a bloodhound I can smell animals mostly -still there 3 years on

and mistle what's with Abby's other son? Don't remember that and I rather pride myself on ER-ness

DitaVonCheese · 22/06/2009 00:05

Thanks daisy

Good day here. I had a lie-in despite it being F-Day (felt a bit mean but he had one yesterday in the full knowledge that meant it was my turn today - apparently he thought I didn't mean it ). Did lots of achieving this morning (we're off to Glastonbury in a couple of days so trying to get things in order) then popped over to visit my mum and dad this afternoon, so DD got lots of fuss (and licks from their puppy).

And the big news in our house is that DD has done three poos in three days (until now it's been every 3-4 days, with her record since weaning being 6 days), so I will join JM in lowering the tone of the thread with poop talk

daisy99divine · 22/06/2009 00:19

oh Dita love a good poo chat myself, just nothing to report here
ha ha idea that you might have been joking about something as serious as a lie in!

How old is your DD?

teafortwo · 22/06/2009 01:04

Hi all,

I am just popping in for a night cap before going to sleep...

What a day! Market, lunch with friends, birthday party (the second in two days), Fathers Day celebrations then all finished off with a dinner party with neighbours this evening!!!

DH wobbled off to bed saying "I drank to to much and am too wasted to do anything!" So I spent a good hour cleaning up by myself!!! Grrrr...."

I suppose I shouldn't really complain considering he did slave over a hot stove preparing the entire dinner on Fathers Day while I was out with Milk scoffing birthday cake and gossiping with friends at said birthday party!

teafortwo · 22/06/2009 01:14

to to??? Obviously I meant too too - - tonight I am typofortwo... and I only had half a glass of wine! (I have a confession to make... in rl I drink far far less than in the tearoom!)

thumbwitch · 22/06/2009 01:25

at T42 - sounds like you had a lovely day!

daisy99divine · 22/06/2009 01:57

Oh I do like hearing about other lovely days
Thumb - did you see your Dad today? Just thought it must be strange and hard nowing you are of to Aus soon - evem though you want to go... hope it was a happy day

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