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.

For anyone who wants to see what I can see, look here - apparently it's dust. That's a good thing.

No, I don't think you were extremely harsh tea, I think you said what needed to be said... and I did so admire how you said that she was writing with the confidence of an utterly closed mind - that was brilliant, and may I please quote you?? And if you killed the thread, that may be a good thing. I feel bad for Allyinoz that her thread was hijacked by someone taking great pleasure in being a cow, and I hope the rest of us gave her some good advice, but since the aforementioned cow isn't likely to change her mind, the thread may as well wither away. I don't mean to be all supercilious but you can't change some people's minds, and I can't be doing with that kind of bitchiness, so for me it's better to leave it.
I think the only thing I could add at this point would be

Whoa thumb. COOL!!

JM - Thanks, I needed that!

TW - Oh my, oh my, oh my... that is freeky stuff!!!

MaryBS - I spent lots of my childhood holidays with my Nanna and Grandad in their (for me) magical council house on a friendly street filled with nothing but love and lots of purposeful cleaning acivities because they were so proud of their houses.

There are some wonderful council houses and good communities that have developed out there but there are also deeply inhumane levels of deprevation and terrible social issues on other council estates today. It saddens me to think that a project originally designed to get people out of slums has, in some cases, simply created new slums and social problems that were unthinkble to the 'Homes for heroes' thinktank.

oh and Madbad - I needed that too!!! (mmm Bolly Yum yum!!!)

IMHO the worst thing central government did to council housing was the right to buy act. its decimated the UKs public housing stock, ripped most of the reasonable properties off the list and left the badly built and pokey ones which now are starting to resemble the slums they were meant to replace.
Quite how a family with 3 kids ( or both sexes age 1-10) are meant to be "fine" in a 2 bed flat with no garden, no ground floor store for a buggy and draughty single glazed windows is beyond me. BUT there they stay because the local authority have hardly any 3 bed houses or flats coming vacant on the list and they are needed even more by the 4 child plus families. The 3 bed houses on the same estate were mostly bought under right to buy and are now being lived in by older people who's children have left home, many now have loft or other extensions turning them into 4+ bedroom houses keeping them out of price range for those families who are in a position to get a 1st time mortgage.

Rant over, sorry. tis bug bear of mine. remind me not to rant about council tenants I have over heard talking about fiddling the system tooo.

UniS - Wow - That was very well explained!

Hi there,
Teafortwo "closed mind" kind of summed it up.
Must be nice to be that sure of yourself!!

Jacksmama you are right, posting again would hav been asking for another lot of self satisfied vitriol.

Well, I know this is mean, but I am glad she only has one.

Thumbwitch, looks like Sydney got "tangoed"

We were 8 in a 3 bed house at one point, 2 adults 6 kids. Until my eldest brother moved out. What would we have done without bunk beds?

Still very tired from yesterday, so not up to saying much. Will be back here if I hear anything though...

lol Mary, that's pretty much about right! It took until about 3pm to really disappear, although the orangeness faded during the day. Still, we didn't have it as bad as Sydney!

Hope you get some good news re. the interview

Allyinoz - nice to see you here

It was on the news this morning - really impressively orange !

Oh MaryBS - The waiting bit is the worst - my sympathies!!!

ALLYINOZ!!!! - oh oh oh wow!!!

How fabtastic to see you here!!!!

The tearoom is a sanctuary in which you may mull over life or escape for a few minutes with a healthy dose of fantasy and lots of tea, cake and champagne.

I would try and de-code all the quirkiness of this thread but to be honest I don't understand much of it myself. If madbadsomeone mentions something weird feel free to nod and smile. That is what I do!

May I tempt you with a slice of chocolate cake and cup of very good tea just the way you like it????

By the way I'm teafortwo - I have one dd aged 3 who is called Milk she has just started school (afternoons only for a year), we live in Paris where Milk is currently painting her paper maiche turtle orange and pink while watching Maya. She is still in her yesterdays school dress that she loves so much that she begged to keep it on in bed last night... and 'cause I am fairly open minded I said "Why not?". !!! So, 'nuff about me (to be read in an Artful Dodger voice) please please tell us a bit about you... and consider ya self aaaaahhhh- t 'ome!!! Ha ha ha!!!

Still waiting... so tea and cake would go down nicely thank you! ARGH!

Hello Allyinoz. I'm Amber, mum of a towering teenage lad who's lovely. I tend to do the cleaning for the tea room and seem to get involved in unfortunate incidents with Mellors the gardener. Do forgive me being accidentally rude/panicked/baffled from time to time. It's how I live my life

Yes please for tea and cake. Have put a large pot of soup-of-your-choice on the Aga.

I just composed a long post denying all responsibility for any weirdness around here, but it's now lost somewhere in internet limbo! I am at Tea's insinuation that I am anything but absolutely normal. It wasn't me wot introduced the Naked Mohawk Babies in their gold lurex hotpants, swinging from teeny tiny liana vines.

More tea and cake, anyone?

What I also said in my disappeared post was a big hi to Allyinoz and a bracing pat on the shoulder for Mary as she waits for news.

I felt very smug as I listened to the radio news this morning about the orange dust in Oz, as we'd already heard about it from Thumb. The tea room leads. The BBC follows!

Hi Allyinoz. I am Racingsnake, so named becuase my silhouette in no way resembles that. (Ironic, see). My daughter is called Wriggle and she is usually a squirrel or Bambi. She is at present learning the letters off her bib while composing a quick note to Milk, in French and English, about her major preocupations. "Dear Milk. You can be Bambi's friend Panpan. I don't say goodbye because I am not nice. Today I am with my Papa and I am going to make him give me sausages and chocolate buttons all day."

Hello all! ooops re Milk/ Wriggle swop, how odd

Thumb very impressed by tangoed Sydney!

Welcome Alyinoz I am Daisy. My posts are always too long. I have one boy aged 3 who has taught himself to read. In Mandarin. . Apparently I work. I may be the Queen. I love the tea room and my husband, DaisyBloke, disappears on Expeditions.

I am so happy you are here

Hi Allyinoz

I am RacingPig. You may hear me squeaking in the sofa. I love RacingMrsPiggy and I would just like to point out to the NMBs that nobody rides my bird except me!

Tea, just went onto that other thread, like what you said and re DaisyDog, don't worry at all, I'm not that fragile, I was just trying to think of something other than birthing/ not birthing that could give one pangs

I long to hear about your puppy

Am that I failed to greet you earlier Allyinoz.

I'm CMOT, and have a DS who is 3, frequently he is a cat/bird/chicken/pregnant with twins. I work and get to meet Tearoom members in far off parts of the globe. Well, one at least

Open up the cognac, I didn't get the job WAAAH

Oh dear, Mary. Here's a very large cognac. I know it's small consolation right now, but this does leave you free to find a job more in line with your qualifications.

How did yesterday's party for DS go?

There aren't any jobs with my quals

JSA runs out 2 Oct too. Not feeling very happy