Tea Room the Eleventh

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Goodness, we seem to have run out of space on the other one!
I shall assume that we are still in the same premises as for Tea Room Ten for the moment until wiser people tell me otherwise!!

Ha ha ha Racing will keep an eye out for the post. Mind you, you'll need a crate of kit kats I fear since we have an rather active brand of strike round here.... almost no post for days

Even when the postie was ostensibly happy he would fail to collect post for days. When it is a big lump it gets given a van. So we would have one van delivery a week of 30 small envelopes. Most economical

Evening all.

Just back from two days of half-term fun - lots of improving activities in museums - and I find that not only has the layout of MN changed (or this thread at least) but the tea room has now become some sort of swingers' hangout with partner swapping going on.

Catita - Fingers crossed for Gatita's arrival. New babies are something of a rarity around here for all the reasons to which Daisy alluded, so it's going to be fun for us. And you, I'm sure.

Racing - I'm sorry that your half term has been so trying. I was just wondering, as the post is so unreliable and it may (ahem) be a while before DaisyBloke reaches you, whether we should send Mellors as general domestic factotum?

Now, any Krug left?

Daisy, I am going to be horrifyingly and wankerishly pedantic - Factor V Leiden is a variation on Factor V, not a deficiency. Having the Leiden variant makes our factor V more resistant to its regulatory controls in the clotting process, meaning that the clotting tends to progress with gay abandon, rather than stopping when it should. A deficiency of Factor V of any kind would cause less clotting, not more.

Dear Thumb. That is great. Can you be my doctor please? you have just explained it all much more cogently than any of the many many doctors I have paraded my Factor V Leiden (not deficiency) to in narry a year

I am sure someone somewhere said "deficiency" they might just have been talking about me of course.

What I did not get wrong, however, was the bloody injections. I distinctly remember those

MadBad have you been to the Big Smoke for your Improving Museums? Could we have passed as ships in teh night yet again?

Racing you are checking off the half term days with a measure of desparation. Is the Eliptical Wriggle being troublesome or is it just that DH who should now be safely in the post? Or something else

Daisy - No, I was in the better half of Oxbridge but we were in one of The Smoke's museums on Monday and will be again tomorrow. My poor child.

You may have the Bolly. I'm supping Krug.

Thanks Daisy - ho yes, couldn't forget the bloody injections. I made MrThumb do them in my legs because I couldn't cope with the idea of anything going into my stomach, especially as it got bigger and tighter, but my legs - ohhhhoowwoowwoooowwwwwww. The bruising stayed there for ages, I thought I was going to be permanently scarred! It did fade after a few months though.

IME, doctors are all a bit fick when it comes to Factor V Leiden - half of them can't even spell it. But then it is a speciality area (haematology) - it's only really worrying when the haematology consultant doesn't know about it! That's never happened to me - but my Haem didn't know whether or not me taking fish oils would in any way affect the heparin or the warfarin - fish oils also have mild anti-coagulant effects. Never mind - it didn't seem to affect anything.

Crikey MadBad - you are a glutton for punishment, aren't you! MrThumb and I went to the Natural History Museum one Valentine's Day (yes we are odd) and most unfortunately it happened to be in Spring half-term - Lord it was busy! By midday you couldn't move and the queues for the loos were phenomenal! We left and found somewhere poncey quiet for lunch.

WOW I am now going to have to belatedly worry about all the fish oil I took during pregnancy and beyond. Nobody even mentioned it!

And yes, I had to do the injections in my thighs. Tummy way too sensitive and too much like injecting DaisyBoy, but there is NO WAY on earth I would have let DaisyBloke near me with the needle. It was my own private pain and yes, I still have sort of echoes of bruising on my upper thighs - sure was no clotting there

Reversing the anti-coagulation medication was a small additional challenge for my super sweet and lovely consultant when organising my c-section in 3 minutes flat - good to keep them on their toes I say

god yes - my best friend has von Willebrand's disease, a milder form of haemophilia and she was desperate NOT to have an em CS because of the risk of bleeding - she begged for an el CS to avoid the risk of needing an emCS, they didn't want to op at all if they didn't need to (understandably) but because she had made enough fuss, the plans were all in place when it came down to it for her to have her semi-em CS, using desmopressin. I think my sis had to have that as well when she had her emCS with her first - does make it more er, interesting, doesn't it?

I couldn't do the jabs myself, even holding the damn needle made me go all wibbly.

Daisy - You are very naughty! I, though, am not. I am slurping Krug, which is not naughty at all, as Mellors is on his way to Maison Racing, to help on the home front until such time as the Royal Mail is able to deliver DaisyBloke.

Thumb - Well, we like museums. Although not the Kensington museums during half terms, it must be said.

MadBad did you enjoy Milk's Blue porcelain vases at the Fitzwilliam this week?

Glad to see you have been sorting out Mellors' packet packing MadBad

Well, Daisy, I was indeed at the Fitzwilliam but I somehow managed to miss Milk's blue porcelain vases. But wouldn't they be in the Louvre? And how did you know about the pince-nez? I do prefer my lorgnette, though.

HA Ha. I think Tea had a fantasy that one day Milk would waft about the Fitzwilliam in a sort of Dusty Answer sort of way, admiring blue porcelain as she went...

Right. Night all. DaisyBloke is out on the lash. I want to get in bed quick to retain the moral high ground and avoid 20 minutes of "i love you" "you know, I reall really love you" type nonsense

Morning all, trying to have an achieving kind of dat today. We've decided to stay local this half term and not hit London and the museums. I thing gymgirlie is quietly relieved. We will in all likelihood be in town a few times before Christmas as we are 'on the tube' so it's nice and easy for us. Yesterday we had a domestic morning where we built the IKEA bookshelves and redid girlie's room. Got the Halloween decs from the loft space and while in there cleared out a couple of boxfulls of baby stuff - toys and books mainly. Should a miracle happen and we do end up needing that stuff again I will be quite happy to have to go shopping for it all again. We went out for a late lunch and spent an hour or so wandering Asda for things we needed and ended up with a fair few things we didn't need.

Today we were up early and I tackled the living room, put the decs on the mantlepiece (halloween decs consisting solely of a few papier mache pumpkins) and cleaned the picture rails of the inch of dust. I've since insisted girlie do some of her homework and spent a while researching someone famous with her, and managed to convince her that Roald Dahl was a far better famous person than Cheryl from X factor

Think I will read my book for a while before lunch and thos afternoon we are off to run some errands and then to meet some friends in the park. Have a good afternoon everyone.

Hello ladies.

We're just back from our (probably) final museum trip of the week and I too am about to crack the whip about homework - in this case, making a book about Diwali. Am hoping that MadBadBaby will get extra Ponce Points for having done some of her research in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology .

at Daisy trying to avoid drunken romancing.

Would anyone care for a cup of tea and a muffin?

blimey Gym, thats been a produtively spent half term hasn;t it.

Uni, I do feel quite accomplished this week, apart from the 2 days I was in work . The house is certainly better than it was, I have (once again) been giving the Flylady a try as I am perpetually spending weekends having massive clearouts and it's beginning to annoy me - why can't we just keep it right as routine?! But between now and Christmas things here are utter madness so I do need to keep on top of things.

The charity shop were very happy with our three boxes of stuff this afternoon, sadlly the library shuts half days, grr, so that job is outstanding. And I totally forgot to post back a cardi from boden that I'd ordered to go with a frock for a wedding in December. So a few outstanding things which, if I stop putting them off, should be easy to get done.

daisy, I too giggled at your speeding up to bed to avoid drunken dh, been there done that hehe.

Gymgirlie has suddenly fallen foul of a high temp and sore throat, so the friends in the park trip has had to be cancelled. She seems really poorly bless her. She will be very if she misses all the parties tomorrow.

Just popping in to say hello... we're back from Toronto and are over our tummy bug, and I have sorted out my PalmPilot ishoo (which involved binning the thing and going to a paper app't book, as well as beginning enquiries about an iPhone), and are having a relatively quiet day. It was DH's birthday yesterday so we had a little pizza and presents party for him, and he (deservedly!!!) got spoiled.

How are you all? Have not had time to read back.

Catita, the big day is Tuesday? Have your gingernuts arrived?

MadBad, sorry if it came across that I was in any way "dissing" your choice of activity - we like museums too - it was the "doing it in half term" bit that was the punishment, not the museums per se.

Gymbunny - amazing week you've had there, sorry to hear Gymgirlie not well now though.

M - nice to see you back - wondered where you had got to (not having read back over the 2 weeks that I missed through being offline)

Daisy, you made me laugh too with your hieing away to bed before the Drunken Bloke got home!

Thumb - I didn't think you were dissing our choices, just pointing out their masochistic nature!

I'v e just been even more rather geeky and speeded up my computer (which was creaking along) by changing its performance attributes and attempting to change its virtual memory parameters! And it worked! Hurrah.

Apart from that, not too bad - English friend coming tomorrow later today, so first trip to the Hunter Valley chocolate shop wine region coming up, plus it looks as though it will be hot enough to swim, so I might dip a toe in the pool. Unpacked more boxes today - discovered that miniThumb had more toys than I realised and have vowed not to buy him any more until he is 4 (he's not even 2 yet!) although that might be a bit harsh... I need to put some of the real baby toys away in plastic boxes. He has all my furry toys as well now, so there does seem to be an overabundance of the things, but I am seriously guilty of anthropomorphising toys, especially furry ones, and can't bear to get rid of them in case it hurts their feelings

When miniThumb wakes up, we are going to make a jack o'lantern from the pumpkin I bought the other day. We are having Swagman's pie for dinner so the pumpkin I dig out can go in that.

And yes, it is 5:18am where I am - I just can't sleep

What a bunch of geeks... :-) love it.
DH and I are going out tomorrow night- baby sitter arranged and everything. we only have to go 400yds down the road to the village hall for a cabaret supper! the show is largely about apples ( and so is cider) and funny. Or at least it was when I saw it as a work in progress at start of summer.

I'm not a computer geek, I just married one. I am a geek in other ways. I do like museums tho. HAvn;t been to any of teh big London ones since boy came along. Expect we will at some point when hes little older. My parents are only 20 miles south of London after all.l

I admit to being geeky but have scarcely any idea what Thumb's talking about. Cabaret I do understand!