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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 · 24/06/2009 00:53

what are your other 2 called?

CMOTdibbler · 24/06/2009 00:58

Heisenberg and Tesla - we have previously had Schrodinger and Mendeleev

thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 00:59

How about Nobel, Nobby for short?

thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 01:03

Or Flamel, after Nicolas Flamel? The Flame bit being relevant to his gingerness...

CMOTdibbler · 24/06/2009 01:06

Oh, I like Nobel. Since Tesla gets called tesy wesy woo woo sometimes, Nobby would be quite classy !

thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 01:08

pmsl at Tesy Wesy Woo Woo!
I was looking at Wikipedia's list of famous chemists and discovered that Borodin (the composer) was also a chemist, didn't know that before - that's a nice classy name but no obvious relevance to gingerness, except that Borodin was Russian and Russians eventually became Red - gosh, that's a bit tenuous!

teafortwo · 24/06/2009 07:57

CMOT and TW -

We need a link to Auzzie style school hats and lots of pics of cat on CMOT's profile asap for sure!!!

Beer is making a speech today for the first time at his company's annual conference - He discovered this yesterday afternoon so due to being unprepared is understandably very nervous about the situation! He left off for work at silly-o-clock to get prepped up on the subject....

All send good vibes towards Paris at GMT 14.00 please! I will let you know how it went [panic emotion]...

mistlethrush · 24/06/2009 09:08

Bother. Missed another good night in the tearoom...

T42 - do gush on here re school anyway - MJ going into reception in September, having thoroughly enjoyed nursery there. He has inherited his father's knack of making smart clothes look a mess - think of Just William and you're probably about there with MJ - shirt untucked (we started out tucking it in, but as it comes out almost as soon as he arrives at school, we now don't bother), socks at different angles, blazer one size too big, touseled hair - got the idea? If he tried a bit harder he would have managed to learn to read properly this year - but I'm not pushing on purpose! (I had internalised reading by the time I went to school and it made it difficult for me!)

CMot - uniform list scary. Sewing nametapes on even more scary if you don't start soon enough! Based on MJ, you also need to have twice as many socks as you think you need as the sock monster will eat lots of them and you'll find yourself on a Wednesday morning with only one sock left for the day and the rest of the week. Oh - and then you also need the 'extras' - MJ needed black trousers and long sleved black top to be a ladybird in the play next week - and he has to take 'beach' stuff in tomorrow for a 'beach'day (luckily he has all of this anyway, but some parents are having to get this too)

Amber's wondering how everyone is getting on - any messages back?

mistlethrush · 24/06/2009 09:19

Perhaps Mendeleyev might go with the others quite well CMot?

thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 10:07

Aussie school hats for you!

they've already had a cat called Mendeleev, Mistle

mistlethrush · 24/06/2009 10:17

Oh - but I had him down as a chemist not a physicist....

I have a very similar hat somewhere - although it is not navy!

thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 10:20

At risk of sounding horribly pedantic, it's their current 2 cats who are named for physicists so they want another chemist to balance it out (or geologist but the only geologist I know is Jane Plant and that's not a good name for a cat, especially a boy!) So you're right about Mendeleev, but he is a dead and gorn pussy now.

MaryBS · 24/06/2009 10:31

The chemist Jacob Schweppe invented Ginger Ale...

mistlethrush · 24/06/2009 10:39

(Whoops)(Sorry CMot )

thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 10:44

did he Mary?? That's brilliant! I love that factoid, that will stay in my head now. (I also love ginger ale )

mistlethrush · 24/06/2009 10:45

Margaret Thatcher apparently was a chemist - but I don't think that CMot will want to call the cat Margaret...

thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 11:01

he he he - a big bruiser of a ginger tom called Margaret - he'd be the laughing stock of the cat neighbourhood!

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 24/06/2009 13:33

Must post and run, but wanted to suggest (Wallace) Carruthers as a name for the cat as Cmot is our style and grooming guru (with special expertise in the matter of tights) and we all owe a debt to Carruthers as the inventor of nylon. And Carruthers the Cat has a certain je ne sais quoi, I think!

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thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 13:58

oh MadBAd, that's excellent! I love that name for a cat...

daisy99divine · 24/06/2009 16:12

Just swooping in - I vote YEAH to Carruthers - so good in so many ways!

envious of hats and nervous of school. It's a year away but I have to start looking and everyone says "not got a school for daisyboy yet, you've left it FAR too late" which just makes me put it off more!

Big virtual and unthreatening hug to Amber, hope she's well, how is Mr B? we're all fine, nothing much to report except I love arizona (that's more for CMOT really)

and yes, where is Racing?

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 24/06/2009 20:22

I think Racing may be devoting her energies to real life!

An unthreatening and virtual hug for Amber from me too. And a yeehah for Cmot in Arizona.

Daisy - I think that 'not got a school yet' thing is premature unless you're planning on choosing an independent school, in which case some (to judge by those round this way) do seem to operate on the 'put their names down at birth or before' principle. But then I keep reading that people are hesitating to sign up for independent schools, so even that may no longer be true. Dunno.

Would anyone like a bijou drinkette?

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thumbwitch · 24/06/2009 23:06

oooh, no alcohol for me tonight! I had one too many in RL this eve and am feeling it a tad. Am also now on the vanilla icecream to counter the rather vicious acid reflux I have going on, the product of having to be polite and have just the one piece of raisin bread (we were out for afternoon tea this afternoon and the hostess, bless her, keeps forgetting I don't "do" wheat)

I'll have a nice glass of ice cold milk, ta..

CMOTdibbler · 25/06/2009 01:14

No Margarets please ! Carruthers is good, but I think we seem to be reaching an agreement (via text) on Boltzmann. The Physicists are winning

I skived off to the spa earlier, for the best massage I have ever had. I feel 3 inches taller after my spine was given a good going over.

Round my way, no need to enter children at birth onto the indpendant schools lists - but we live outside the metropolis. For state schools you can't do anything until October for entry in Sept 2010, unless its a catholic school who have different rules.

daisy99divine · 25/06/2009 01:22

Botlsman is good, but I am not sure Carruthers isn't better
schools, well there are the independends which have closed their lists but most of our state primaries are church based and require a long history of church going that is impossible to achieve (even with inclination) and the two remaining schools appear to be full
unwitting home ed anyone?

  • pass the bottle MadBad!
mistlethrush · 25/06/2009 07:29

Morning all. Was it just me or did MN go all wobbly yesterday evening - earlyish (I don't know whether it sorted out as had choir...)

We decided to send MJ privately (although, with dh's current unemployment, its a bit tough) I started looking around when MJ was 18 months - I thought that would be OK. However, we were the first on the waiting list for one school that we really liked. We went around two others too and got on their lists - although one didn't have a 'list' as such. We then got invited to the 'prospective new parents evening' at the school - bit concerned when we found out that IT and music appeared to be part time each - found this out from a pupil at an open day! Then expected to get some information on assessment in November - ended up ringing the school and found out that we'd been pushed from 1st on the list to seventh - quickly arranged to get MJ in to be 'interviewed' at the two other schools. Decided that we liked one of the other schools better - MJ got in and we accepted a place - then heard from the original school that a place had come up!!! Any way, we ended up at the 2nd school, and, in fact, are really pleased with how MJ has settled in and how they are coping with him!

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