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.

Oh I love Withnail too, Orangehaze, but do hope that your DH is not too like Uncle Monty.

Anyone else want an early supper?

For anyone who's not seen Withnail and I, here's a great clip of Uncle Monty

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQx4qiEmRQ4

ha ha.

No, DH just knows the script by heart!

Amber I think the drive to use as few words on signs as possible causes lots of confusion...

Daisy: crickey pneumonia I hope you can get on top of it soon.

By some miracle (and by the sounds it a very helpful phonecall from her GP) my mum's biopsy report has been fast-traked. She tells me today that she sould know by the end of the week. This is good news, because even if it is bad news she will have saved herself a month of uncertainty (which she does not cope with very well and could expalin why the GP was so keen to help).

Keeping all fingers and toes crossed for her.

Oh, Catita. (((Hug))) for you and all fingers and toes crossed for your mum.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPQ0aPcqWgM

I think RS coming to Paris is an excellent reason to celebrate with a Hendrix night... I do really hope it works out and Milk and I will be able to meet RS and Wiggle!!!

Catita...

I AM SO SORRY for my x-post...it is good to know and scary to know at the same time... I can't imagine the mixed emotions you must be going through

offers a hand to hold and crosses all that I can... including of course posts

Thinking of you lots! Look after you and your family x x x x x

I knew that the photo from our album was from a film we watched just before Wriggle. A bout de souffle is miserable. Jules et Jim also fairly miserable but has good tunes. Belville Rendezvous is strange, The Girl From Paris escapist and The Child And The Fox might be perfect for MadBadBaby.

Another x post as I am supposed to be writing a staff meeting on Teaching Spirituality.

Catita - keeping fingers crossed.

Tea - fingers crossed too for different reasons.

Just flying by to tell you all I've won a weekend at Disneyland Paris!

Yes, A Bout de Souffle (a distant date with TMTWIAMM) is miserable but it is so atmospherically and gallicly miserable. I shall be wearing my new beret on the school run tomorrow morning in hommage.

Thank you, Racing, for the suggestions. I am also thinking Zazie Dans Le Metro, Les Valseuses and Tenue de Soiree.

Bolly, anyone?

Mary - That's brilliant! How? On MN or (not sure whether this exists but have heard rumours) real life?

Have a glass of Bolly to celebrate!

It was on the Ford website, 250 holidays up for grabs

I'll take that glass of bolly, thanks!

Well done you! Cheers!

Well done Mary great news.
Catita, wishing you all the best for the end of the week.
Madbad, can I do wardrobe please when the film goes into production, I'm a whizz with a sewing machine.
To my shame, I did Francois Truffaut films as part of my french A level but can hardly remember them now. But all these references are making me very excited for my planned summer holiday next year

Gymbunny - You did films for your French A level? I am envious. We did Victor Hugo's dullest work.

How marvellous to have a sewing whizz on the premises. Should we have a tea room uniform? I'm thinking floor length gown and gloves to the elbow. A little bit Dior New Look, a little bit Vivienne Westwood. Could you run up a few toiles for us to try?

Oh Catita fingers crossed wtih your Mum and big (((hugs))) for you

Racing and Tea a meet up! And not in Cambridge! WEll done Mary with your prize, perhaps you can sneak in too?

Amber you made me laugh with the broken seal, thanks for your concern and I can quite see the problem - does it concern you that it might also be a water mammal?

Been watching David Attenborough (who of course I love and oh look! He is coming into the tea room to have a lovely chat with us all) am I the only one to weep at the dying octopus?

I was thinking of doing French A level and finding a course where you learn via film and get assessed - school is so much more fun these days

My film bid? 3 colours red, white adn blue and Horseman on the Roof and Le Bossu - not classic black and white and gloomy but all great

RacingSnake, what sort of spirituality do you teach about? Its a big interest of mine, Christian Spirituality, particularly that of the 14th Century Mystics.

Amber, I struggle with those instructions about not breaking seals as well!

Today is a lovely day - need to dash around sorting out a passport for DD, as it runs out the week before we are due to go!

Oh no, poor little seal!!

Hugs, tea, coffee and mid morning cakes for all those that need it

Just rushing off for a packed day out while planning spirituality in my head. Mary, jsut sort of general ... spirituality. Doesn't have to be Christian in fact I don't think we are meant even to teach spirituality, rather to make sure there are lots of opportunities for it to develop. Awe and wonder, sense of identity, empathy, that sort of thing. All the things, I suppose, that you can't measure. (Although I think I am meant to do so in my role as RE coordinator. With a spirit level??? )
Do 14th century mystics include Dame Julian of Norwich?

LOL at spirit level. Yes, it includes Julian of Norwich, am a big fan of hers (yes, Julian is a she, to those who don't know her!).

Am just trying to decide what to have for brunch - anyone care to join me?

at Racing's bons mots.

I have read Julian of Norwich, Mary. But only the shorter, easier bit.

Many thanks for the refreshments, Amber. I have just made a mug of frothy hot chocolate for anyone who's not looking for caffeine.

The sun is shining here, hurrah! Just off to the post office to collect a parcel before the system goes into meltdown....

Have just been shifting garden rubbish. Tea and cake anyone? I feel in need of replenishment...

Yes please to the cake. I've just made some cheese and tomato muffins which are not a great success - should have used more pungent cheese, I think - but you're welcome to try.

I'm hoping to have a good session in the garden at the weekend. Clearing rubbish, that is. Nothing to do with Mellors. Oh no.

Just popping in to say hello in the midst of my busy busy day. Need more caffeine

Had a meeting this morning and raced round Waitrose to get galaxy dark for gymhubby's birthday tomorrow, and lemons for the lemon drizzle birthday cakes he's asked me to make so that he can bring them into work . Been here at my desk fielding calls and trying to read papers fro tomorrow, and soon I'll go and get gymgirlie and take her swimming. Then tonight I have a school PTA meeting, and at some point will make aforementioned lemon drizzles. Ack, I'm worn out already.
Ah well, it's a beautiful day which will hopefully prove energising.
Hmm, don't know Julian of Norwich, will investigate in spirit of ongoing adult edcation and bettering oneself . But not today, today is more of a good housekeeping heat magazine kind of day.

at Heat magazine. The only benefit of going to the GP, I think, is reading about z-list celebrities in the waiting room (Note to Amber: it's the magazines which are in the waiting room, not the z-list celebrities. As far as I know). And have I mentioned that I got preferential treatment on the maternity ward after I lent the nurses my Hello magazine?

Tea and scones, anyone?