Tea Room the Tenth: Tea and cake and rock and roll

[MadBadandDangerousToKnow]

Welcome back to the tea room.

In the search for the perfect venue, we have now decamped to a rambling country estate. The once-decaying castle, now restored, is a boutique hotel, popular with rock and roll gentry and visiting bishops, and the tea room (which never closes) is located in a tastefully converted barn. The charming garden contains a duck pond and ends in a haha. We need the haha, of course, to stop the bison trampling the herbaceous borders. Mellors the gardener is, as ever, in charge of the grounds.

Please come and join us for a celebratory drink.

I like RS's idea. You're not a meanie. Put her off until some vague holiday in the future.

Is Daisy ever coming back? Even if we got entirely the wrong end of the stick...

Afternoon tea roomers...I strayed inadvertently into a very tetchy thread and was going to wave halloooo to you all, spesh Jacksmama and MadBad, but thought maybe best to do it here, rather than on said odd thread....

My one and only child started school today. She loved it. I sobbed. Ain't that the best way all round?

HAHAHAHAHAH hahahahaha hahahahaha

oh my dear tea room people!!! I didn't realise quite what I had said - just been back to read again

Sadly I am not sporting a bumpita, I was just being greedy and wanting a LARGE piece of cake!

I am so sorry to have got you all so excited, and am nearly but not quite, too embarrassed to tell you I am just a porker....

but your excitement was very very nice indeed you are all lovely people....

at least we only have to knit for one!

I am a bit shame faced actually....

thankyou

Daisy sluprs a small cup of tea

Don't worry Daisy, you know we like to have a party and make a big fuss about the smallest thing here anyway. You just gave us an excuse to be silly.

Have another cuppa and a plain chocolate digestive...

oh thanks Catita

I feel a bit of a numpty actually

just been rather busy at work and not posted

out for dinner tonight, so won't be back but swirl the glitter ball for me - if we're still allowed it in the fancy castle we now inhabit!

awwwww daisy, don't you worry I carefully stowed the glitterball under the stairs for use in the ballroom as and when required - we can get it out next time you're here!

glad you came back to put us straight anyway!

LOL!!! Daisy! Oh, you're funny!!

Bucharest - what thread?

I've found myself on a thread in the One-Child topic where someone asked for support (Everyone's having another child - help!) and someone else showed up and got all annoyed with the op, and I just couldn't let it go. MadBad and tea, would you mind going back to that thread to tell me if I was being OTT? I just got so frustrated because she refused to see our point about the board... gah!!

she was a bit abrasive, wasn't she! I don't think you were OTT, JM. I do wish that posters with this "I can post what I like where I like regardless of how it might make the OP feel" attitude could be more empathetic.

Thanks - that makes me feel better. She had quite a go at me in her last post ("your face fits" - whatever the heck that means...) so I was wondering.

new broom throwing her weight around a bit, maybe? Ah well, no doubt she'll settle in soon. I have noticed that some of the newer people who start off like that are either squashed flat in AIBU and then become a bit more circumspect or disappear quite quickly.

Definitely new broom or a name changer? Sounds like someone that used to be around before whose names I've forgotten.

Personally I think 'happy one-child families' and 'miserable one-child families' would be disastrous - nothing better when you're feeling a bit down to be buoyed up by people who are more than happy to have the one child and no more.

I do wish some more of my Flickr friends would upload some photos though, to knock one RL friend's newborn off my contacts' recent uploads on my homepage, he's flippin' gorgeous! All tastefully dressed, lit and photographed, and sleeping, just like their first.

Ah well.

I am knackered today, but cheery because our shift of guinea pig and rabbit care has ended. We only had to put them out in the garden in the morning, and back and night, and give them some food, but it's been a bit fraught. They were supposed to be free range in the garden, but got back from school on Wednesday to find children and their grandmother chasing bunny round the front garden, then on Thursday gran was gardening when two women appeared with the bun, who'd been in the road ... so today bun has just been in the run, and guineas in a separate one, as they're so awful to catch. Gran is staying over tonight so she can take the kids to their swimming lesson tomorrow, so they can do critter duties, and parents are back tomorrow. Hooray! Makes the kittens seem easy (they don't go outside).

It's the weekend!

Ooh, I just remembered - going to watch Derren Brown and see if the not-getting-off-the-sofa thing works. Not that I'm much good at getting off the sofa on a Friday night with a glass of wine at the best of times ... maybe I should watch the programme, but leave the wine in the fridge. I suspect I can overcome Mr Brown's hypnotic powers if wine is involved.

Proud mummy alert! DD is now a member of the Ely Imps - she passed her audition for the Cathedral girls' choir!

Wawza!!!!! Wawza!!!!!! Yipeeee!!!!

What a star of a dd you have MaryBS

• So it is defo champers tonight, daaaahlinnnng!!!! Let's celebrate in style!!!!

well done Marys DD. hope you cope with owning a chorister... I hear they are high maintenance.
I think you may be in need of a doughnut or two to keep your energy levels up. do help yourself

Daisy- we are sorry we jumped to conclusions, the assorted police hunks we sent out looking for you were fun tho.

Boy does indeed have lycra cycle kit, but it all a bit big still so is worn baggy. also unpadded shorts, he won't fit the smallest padded shorts for another year or more. His current shorts are from Lidl and cost about 50p, the tight pair are his swim shorts, teh baggys his cycle shorts.

Gave boy a ride on tehtandem down to preschool today. he held on very tight... then DH and I went for a little ride to find agood vantage point to watch teh Tour pelaton whizz past agin on stage 7.
My mates doing Lands End- John o groats have finished , 6 days 9 hours! smashing teh previous unicycle record nearly in half.

Bravo to Unis's mates too. More Bolly to celebrate needed, Mellors - will you sort it please??!!!!???

By the way Daisy, do you mind if I keep on the rollerskates I was wearing for your search? You see they are so much faster than my Mary Janes!!!

Congratulations to Marys DD ! And to UniS's ntrepid friends.

Cat2 decided to bring home a pigeon today -as I discovered whilst walking aroung while on a conference call

And the lawn damage is found to be due to hedgehogs - one very large, one little. As I discovered last night when I went to get the washing in and nearly shrieked at the moving things in the dark

The other thread is a bit odd isn't it ? I agree that it is reminiscent of another tetchy poster

Aaaaaahhh... I think I know whom you mean. Well then. I'm not sorry for what I said.

We are off for the weekend, I may or may not have Mumsnet internet access so the other thread can rage on without me I may not see all you lovely folks until Sunday.
Have a lovely weekend all!

She's already a chorister, in our local church. Now there'll be no stopping her (except when church and cathedral clash for her time - then there'll be choir wars!)

Daisy - How lovely to see you again. But does this mean I have to take my police uniform off? I think the silver braid rather suits me.

Mary - Well done to your DD. Does this mean you live near Ely? I love the place - we visit quite often because MadBadBloke's family live in the Fens. Well, in houses. But in Fenland.

UniS - I hadn't realised your friends were on unicycles. I thought we were talking two-wheelers. Ree-spect.

Bucharest - How lovely to see you here. Mwah, mwah!

About that other thread. I became convinced yesterday that there's a name-changer there. The combative style (and insistence that everybody else is a loon while she is tickety-boo) is just so familiar. As for site stuff, I think dividing into happy v grieving or by choice v not by choice would be wrong for all kinds of reasons. It would make these distinctions appear far more important than they actually are. And more real than they actually are: where's the middle ground for those who baled out of further IVF, for example, after their first and only child, it's a choice but a different sort of choice? It might create duplication with other topics - conception, health, relationships, chat, whatever. I could go on.

Anyway, has anyone opened the bolly yet?

Madbad - yes, live about 7 miles away.

Think I need some bolly to help me sleep!

Cor, someone could have told me Daisy had nipped in through the side gate! Been up on the battlements all this time keeping a lookout!

At Salisbury we were in the Close itself - Sarum College, which is so lovely and very historic.

Then yesterday was Goodwood Revival, so a chance to dress up for the occasion and revel in all those lovely classic cars.

Anyone want one of Amber's Infamous Omelette Surprises?

a namechanger, hey? Can you give me a hint, with initials or something, am a bit [fick] in terms of memory these days.

An infamous omelette surprise sounds fascinating amber - what's in it then? Or is it a magic tea room omelette that will become whatever I like most?

Much much respect to UniS's nutty friends - that requires some dedication!

Mm... Thumbwitch... I too am also other thread pondering...

We are spending today having a mass-cleaning session... well DH is while I am hiding in the bedroom mning!!!!

[tries to stop being lazy emotion]

Aaargh! Why did I go back to that thread?

I really should do some cleaning too, before this house is featured in a shock horror probe documentary!

Amber - Tell me about Goodwood Revival. I once drove a car around Brooklands, ya know.