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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 · 22/06/2009 01:58

6nowing^- heavnes I will be forced to abdicate due to poor use of English!

By the way, has anyone seen Racing of late?

daisy99divine · 22/06/2009 01:59

ohhhh this is getting worse. I am tired. My key borad has turned into Gremlin Board
I haven't even had a drink ,wail.

Maybe Thumb's cocktails were not so virtual!

thumbwitch · 22/06/2009 08:37

Oh dear daisy - that's when you know it's time to give up and go to bed, which I admit I did about half an hour prior to you!

We did see him and we had a lovely time in his garden, plus DH did a fab lunch and we had strawberries that Dad had grown for dessert - YUM! I tried not to think too much about the implications; it's too hard otherwise.

mistlethrush · 22/06/2009 09:10

Sorry, went to bed at a reasonable time for the second night running . MJ woke up at 6 again this morning, but went to the loo quietly (without rushing into our room to shout 'I need a wee'!) and then played with his lego. Actually, its duplo in his bedroom. The lego isn't significant in quantity yet, and better with some assistance... When I got in from walking the dog, dh had already managed to clean MJ's teeth AND get him mostly dressed

daisy99divine · 22/06/2009 12:11

morning!
sorry thumb didn't mean to make you sad...

Mistle hurrah for MJ!

Daisyboy did great sleeping for him last night, no coming down (he has taken to getting out of his cot saying "mummy, I feel a little bit unhappy") he'd had a weekend of charging around so was pooped!

Here's a little coffee and look, there is Mellors sitting in the hammock with his guitar, how lovely and peaceful!

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 22/06/2009 12:51

Hello everyone. Soup and a lewd roll for lunch?

There's a lady here who is asking about experiences of being a family of three. I don't know which book she's just read but I think I would have burned it!

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mistlethrush · 22/06/2009 12:53

Ratatouille and a lewd roll for lunch anyone?

Ooh - I didn't know there was a hammock here too - Mellors is crafty to bring it with him from the palm trees... very relaxing - and I do like the sun terrace.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 22/06/2009 17:55

Oh drat! I fell asleep in the hammock and have only just woken up. Did I miss the ratatouille? It would have made a nice change from soup.

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UniS · 22/06/2009 20:35

I'm back.... ghostbusters sound track on teh stero, Lost boys is lined up on teh DVD. I too was an 80s teen, but an un cool one.
I never dared try blue eye shadow, I did have a chuncky knit stripey jumper. I had jeans with writing on - in biro of course so I didn't wash them for months. I had band T shirts with tour dates on teh back and auto graphs if I had been very lucky - these were of course bands no one else at school had ever heard of, and thus " un cool" .

Sperm in allium sound like a very nasty suprise in the garden. Alliums are those big purple globe spikey flowers arn't they- memebers of teh onion family too.

So it was Mellors who was camping opposite us on saturday night was it, a strumming on his geetar. I put ear plugs in at that point and fell asleep.

Tamdeming was fun. then we went to a bike show and spent FAR too much on new bikes- one for boy with pedals and brakes, 1 for all of us as 2nd car . A tamdem which we shall put kiddy cranks on so boy can be stoker and either DH or I captain. fingers crossed we will be doing teh pre school run with it come sept. PLEASE... as boy is getting VERY heavy in a trailer up those hills.

I'm off to wonder about the fruit bushes picking and eating sun warmed raspberries.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 22/06/2009 21:40
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UniS · 22/06/2009 21:45

here a raspberry for you ---

no Apricots ripe yet in the tea room garden- or in mine, in fact I have no apricot tree in mine at all.

Those of you with older boys- Horrid henry- really horrid? or just a name? and what sort of reading age are they for? how about for a KS2 boy , not a confident reader?

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 22/06/2009 22:00

Yum. When in France, I'm mightily fond of Kir Royal made with raspberry.

I do have an apricot tree in my garden but it is diseased. I am worried it may all end up as firewood. Otherwise, it looks like a bumper crop this year, so I have hopes of becoming an apricot jam tycoon for one year only.

Horrid Henry? I don't think he's too awful. I haven't actually read MBB's books [negligent mother emoticon] but I suspect he'd appeal to a boy in KS2. (MBB was reading them in KS1 but reading is her thang and, besides, she is a gurl). I'm imagining there's quite a lot of low level boysy naughtiness, in manner of Just William or Top Gear. Thinking of gurls, what about Molesworth, the original Horrid Henry Naughty Nigel?

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thumbwitch · 22/06/2009 22:46

miniThumb adores raspberries, especially picked straight off Grandpa's canes. He's pretty fond of strawberries too and helped himself to one from Grandpa's plants on Sunday - ate the whole lot before we realised he'd even picked it so I hope it didn't have any wildlife attached!

Today he scarfed his way through about half a pack of black cherries (with my help though) - he kept trying to put the whole cherry in his mouth - they're not small ones either!

So, no worries with his purple and red fruit intake - just got to work on the green, orange and yellow now

I love Kir Royale - which reminds me that I still have another bottle of "champagne" in my fridge which will need to be used up in the next couple of weeks, plus the double cassis from France - yum!

I have all my Molesworth books ready to hand on to miniThumb when he's Of Age, plus I bought the full set of Just Williams - have just realised that I must be mad cos it'll give him Ideas! Ah well.

Kir royale, anyone?

UniS · 22/06/2009 23:10

go on then. just teh ting to wash down my supper of yogart and raspberries and strawberries.
I need to pick fruit tomorrow when boy is at pre school. He refused to share any of "his" rasps today, so we didn;t take any to his friend J's house. J's mum very helpfully had boyto play while I whisked off to teh supermarket, put shopping away, washing out on line and made a couple of phone calls. I'll miss that friendly support network when/ if we move, but dare say I'll find another.

am going to put an offer on a house tomorrow- but expect it will be rejected. owners seem to want the asking price and no less ! but are asking too much for us to afford ( and more than its worth IMHO)

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 22/06/2009 23:13

Kir royale? Yes purlease.

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mistlethrush · 23/06/2009 09:20

I'm reading the Horrid Henry books to ds (he's 4.2) - good way into starting books with more story and fewer pictures for ds. Next step, Paddington...

And yes, Horrid Henry does seem to get up to some pretty awful things, and is mean to his brother. The difference between it and Just William (have the Martin Jarvis set on CD in the car) is that most of the things that William did were either unconciously bad or no longer available for small boys to do!

teafortwo · 23/06/2009 12:01

I think Horrid Henry will be one of those books I leave hanging around rather than read to dd.

There are books that I think sound better coming from my Motherly voice and others that need to be gasped at and giggled at by torch light under the covers pages rapidly turning!

Just William - I would love to read with her because he is a dear little honey-pie but Horrid Henry is a child's child and I just know my disapproving adults voice would spoil the magic of these wild and deeply fun filled stories!

mistlethrush · 23/06/2009 12:42

T42 - it is quite fun doing the whingy voices of Peter and Henry for ds!

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 23/06/2009 21:26

Hello everyone. Have you had a good day?

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MaryBS · 23/06/2009 22:32

Message from Amber - just to say hello!

thumbwitch · 23/06/2009 23:06

that's nice - I hope she's ok?

Pimms tonight - anyone care for one or have you all gone off to bed? There's strawberries in it and everything...

teafortwo · 24/06/2009 00:29

I will have a pimms, tw, mmm delish...

Where is RS???? I am missing her.

I have discovered a thread for people with children starting school this year - which is great because Milk starts in September (in France children start school at 3)! We all get giggly and talk about 'school pick up' and 'uniform' in the same gushy way pregnant ladies talk about cots and babygrows.... fun fun fun!!!

CMOTdibbler · 24/06/2009 00:38

Thanks for the Pimms. Am in Arizona, where it is hot hot hot, and my v fair skin does not like it.

I was looking at the uniform list for the school DS will be going to next year, and getting soppy about the shorts and long socks therein. Bet Milk will look gorgeous

The CMOT family will be increasing - at the show we went to on Friday the Cats Protection League had a stand, and had pictures of cats looking for homes. The CMOT family decided that they needed a big boy cat again, and DH will be picking him up on Thursday. We just need to decide on a name now..

thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 00:41

School is a long way off for us just yet, thankfully, but when we do get there, it's going to involve one of those little bushranger hats! Awwww.

Arizona, hey - flattish with occasional big lumps and hot - not my kind of place, I have to admit. Looks like the red centre of Australia from what I have seen and I didn't like that much either!

A new cat! post a pic when you have him and I'm sure we can offer useful suggestions for his name..

CMOTdibbler · 24/06/2009 00:47

Not nearly as nice as the red centre. Best conference I have ever been to was in Alice Springs.

He is big, ginger and stripy. We need a scientist name to go with the others. DH would prefer a geologist or chemist as we currently have two physicist names

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