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.

Heh Mary well done with your Bishop! But I am sure he just read your new Mission Statement and caved - tell us more!

MadBad i am going to stick with the pastries and hot chocolate, thanks

hot cross buns - home made? WOW, I tried it once. They formed an excellent rockery

Daily Mail - didn't know - you have to remember I don't tend to go elsewhere on MN unless you ladies link me

Thumb you are right. DaisyBloke had ethical issues. Basically he said "I have treated you twice. I can't do this anymore" so he stopped treating my neck and shagged me asked me out instead

I just tried the rice game and thought it was very odd, asking me for definitions of words and nothing about art at all.... then I saw the change subjects button

Sorry, Daisy, I tried but failed to get it to link to the subjects page.

Yay to Mary and the Bishop (so to speak)!

Cuppa tea, anyone?

Luvvverly cuppa MadBad 650 emails later, and I can see over the parapet of work.

re: hot cross buns, breadmaker. Marvelous invention for those those cooking aspirations are better then their ability.

(chuck stuff in, go and sit down for an hour and a half, roll into balls, bung in oven)

yum

And would you like a slice of lemon drizzle cake with that, Cmot?

I think there may be some hot cross buns left, too.

Anything for you, Orangehaze?

gin please, oh it's a bit early.

Spritzer then please!

Morning all... nothing too terribly good about it yet (I've not gotten myself around enough coffee to overcome a rough night)...

MadBad, the roaring 40's thread wants you to come back, please - there is a link to the new thread too.
They sound very nice. Not as nice as you lot, of course, but very nice.

Gah. I'm feeling completely stunned this morning. Somebody give me a bracing slap or something. Or I'll start posting ridiculous shite like "AIBU to let me toddler play with my paper scissors just so I can have some coffee in peace"

Still a little bit 'zonked out'. Essentially, the interview wasn't as long as expected. Mostly about how I felt personally about being in ministry, and also how my Asperger's would affect me when I was, say, ministering to someone who was bereaved. He seemed very supportive of that, and I was glad to be able to discuss it properly. He said he was pleased that I felt able to talk to a bishop without clamming up. He doesn't know I have lots of experiences of bishops in the tea room (notice I said OF not WITH ), and I never mentioned anything about speedos

That's good to hear, Mary. Jacksmama - I may pop into the roaring forties from time to time to drone on reminisce about my experience of baby-wrangling but, really, this is where I hang out. (Note to self: must buy jeans which are better at hiding my muffin top).

Orangehaze - Are you sure you're new around here? You seem to have got the measure of us remarkably quickly!

It's nice to know I fit in!
It kind of reminds me of my old teaching days, huddling in staff room, moaning about the students, counting the hours to more coffee or the nightly trip to the pub and then wobbling home on my bike.

This was all before I was a responsible mother. I do miss those days.

I haad some fun on the rice game at lunch the other day, had loads of fun.

orangehaze, hot cross buns sound divine, may I have one please?
Mary, well done with the bisop, bet you're glad it's all over.
CMOT, wow that's a lot of emails!

Off to check on dinner....

YEAH! Drizzle cake and gin, this is my kinda place!

MadBad don't go roaring with the 40s, stay and mew with us

I have not recovered from my summer holidays yet. I need coffee and firm resolve.

Re muffin top trousers - I heard of the gloriously named "Jeans Your Daughter Wouldn't Wear" - all big fronts with extra support - yet surprisingly glam!

By the way, orange your description sounds pretty much like my life. Now.

Really, Daisy? Gizza job.

I have even seen those jeans in the shops but didn't dare pick them up!

Really, Daisy? Gizza job.

I have even seen those jeans in the shops but didn't dare pick them up!

That post was so scintillatingly witty that I thought you would want to read it twice.

I ate too much clotted cream and cakes whilst on holiday. A gentle hours hack and some walking everyday didn't counteract this I'm afraid.

So I must hold firm against cake. For now

I seem to have acquired another layer of blubber since coming back from holiday. I have just resolved to lay off the cakes and biscuits in RL, which will probably mean an even more excessive consumption in here.

just back from slimming world and after losing 1.5lbs last week and going to a champagne fuelled 50th, I tried harder this week and put 2.5lb on. Aaaagh!

Oh dear, Gymbunny. But at least you're committed enough to go to Slimming World.

Would you like a virtual glass of Bolly to take your mind off it?

Yes please. And a cream cake too .

Okey-dokey.

How about a chocolate eclair, made in the French stylee with chocolate cream inside? Zut alors.

Anyone else?

Wow, those newbies pack a punch!!

ROFL at "truffle hound powered by Dyson"!!!

What have our lovely, cherished newbies done to you, Jacksmama?