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!!

I have... a baaaaay-beeee niece!!!

Yay hay ! How is your sister Tea ?

Wow! We're becoming Baby Central. In the one child tea room. Who'da thort it.

Welcome back from your travels, Cmot!

It's definitely a day for ...........

Bolly all round!!!

bring on the bolly!
wonderful news even the (possibly) least fecund topic on Mumsnet has a double baby whammy to celebrate!

Just back from fireworkds, they were great!

Perhaps it's the after-effects of those ladies from multiple births dropping in a couple of weeks ago? Maybe some of that fecundity has rubbed off?

Congratulations to all babies related to tea room inmates!

Tea, how did you sort out the issue with your sister and the visiting? Are you OK about it?

Lovely day here, spent with Aged Parent and Wriggle, a restaurant for lunch, a Christmas display and a tray full of strawberry jelly mixed with pasta shapes at nursery, with tweezers to pick out the pasta shapes. (Actually, that sounds like a recipe for MadBad's book...)

DH's flower-arranging students gave him a dozen autumn wreaths and mobiles. We hung them up around the living room and it looks lovely. (Wow! Christmas! said Wriggle)

DH even rinsed out the bath after himself - I think it might be the first time ever.
Then, just when things were looking so good, M.Snake came in with a huge piece of cardboard and started taping it over the beautiful glass-fronted bookcase! He is afraid that Wriggle will put her hand through it when she walks along the back of the sofa. It looks awful! He has stuck it on with huge strips of duct tape.

To be fair to him, it is very old thin glass, and it will mean I don't have to clean the glass and I could put something over it like wallpaper - I bought a roll of vintage Thelwell wallpaper at a car boot sale for which I couldn't find a use.

But, on the other hand, do you think he is just a little mad? I am asking seriously.

Racing - Are you really asking whether MonsieurSerpent is mad?

Well, I don't think he's mad. I think he is responding to the risk as he perceives it to Wriggle's safety. But his solution is, ahem, idiosyncratic. How about a less ugly option, such as rearranging the furniture?

Tea - great news - hope you did manage to sort out visitations with your sister to your satisfaction!

RS - I agree with MadBad - less mad than slightly odd way of dealing with a potential hazard. At least he sees the hazard, which is more than mine would.

Beerfortwo would do something like that for sure RS! Not that generally he is a refence for complete sanity....

Thanks for asking about the visit... odd... I sort of had a Mumsnet live birth stylie thing with sis as she had her mobile on her and in her gas and air haze was texting updates!

Then I had the lump in throat "The nurse told me to have a sleep but I can't stop starring at my baby"

So I said

"It is an amazing feeling isn't it. Do you want me to come over this weekend?"

And she said

"Of course and I would really love you to bring Milk with you too."

I have just bought the tickets...

oh Tea! That's so lovely, I'm so happy she wants to see you after all. Amazing how that "motherlove" feeling changes everything you thought beforehand...
(you won't be getting there on day 5, will you? No, of course not - I remember day 5 all too well, full of tears and sadness and generally really down - remember to warn her of that, one of my best mates had it on day 5 as well)

Thanks - good point, Thumb!

We went to buy a babygrow for new babe and instead of helping to choose Milk ran round and round the big shop like a lunatic.... lost her coat in her madness (took me and three members of staff ages to find it) and kept shouting "But don't forget about Chrismas!" New phase??? If so bloody Eeeeeeeeeeeek - I am hoping this doesn't last too long...

That's great, Teafortwo!

tea that is wonderful news! have a great trip and I am sure your sister will love having you there to share those sparkly eyed feelings

I would take Savoy Cabbage as my birth gift

Racing not perhaps mad but a little odd not to say anything first. My first concern was "what is the duct tape doing to the book case" - perhaps not helpful

Can you move the bookcase? Or cover with something else? If the real concern is a fall by EW then would the cardboard do the trick in any event?

I am pink with happiness - doing this - in Paris all day yesterday got some funny looks I tell you!!!! In the 17th it is much more trendy for people do this - behind big fur coats and big glasses and no-one is running round shops in a massive craze screaming "But don't forget about Christmas!" (Rolls eyes at Milk!) Well almost no-one!!!! - I have decided to put it down to the fact she is so happy about having a cousin too... I hope...

Catita... what day are you on... offers hand incase it is dreaded day 5????

So pleased for you, Tea. Do we get a hint about the name?

Glad that the general wisdom is that M.Snake is not mad. Am also worried about duct take on antique polish, but suppose it can be repolished at some point. Was seriously more worried about the madness. Would love to have space to reorganise furniture, but not without removing a wall (maybe remove the front of the house like a dolls house?)

Blackberry and brussel spout soup, anyone?

ok Racing, another idea. do you open the bookcase a lot? If not, perhaps turn it round for a few months until E.Wriggle ends her climbing on back of sofa phase?

If phase it is.....

erm, its triple whammy of babies, uniblokes lil sister dropped a pink sprog late last night. I'll not name teh child as teh unusual middle name might out them. suffice to say DBiL will be geting some ribbing over THAT choice. WHY do blokes want to name children after motorised objects of desire.

Is milk running about shouting in engish or french? maybe less embarrasing if its a french phrase ??? at leats you won;t look like dumb tourist.

Fireshow was good. the rain stopped just before show time. Smaller audiance than we needed tho :-( suspect teh rain put off a lot of walk up customers.
The bonfire was great, a volcanic Island shaped set, started witha BIG fountain type firework at top of volcano, then flames leeping high out of teh volcano. Gradually the fire broke through teh body of teh set, but teh inital image was VERY volcanic.

I am somewhat sleep deprived today, pub lockin till wee smalls, then BiL phoning at 7am, boy waking up etc.. made for a short night.

Amber- you would like the toy Boy picked for his baby cousin. I find it mesmerising... a rattle containing a silvered concave mirror with coloured balls trapped in it.Just roll them round and round and round and round...

Bless him, boy wanted to buy the baby a toy, but with only a pound in his piggy bank and he wanted to get himself a toy too... I took him to charity shop for his toy and he chipped in teh remaining 50p to baby gift.

How stange; my last post disappeared. Full of enthusiasm for new babies and plans to send all of our furniture to the tearoom in a large furniture van. Gremlins or censors?

UniS - can't hypothesise about the name unless you give us the gender. Obviously if it is a boy it could be Bentley, while if it is a girl it could well be Laguna or Porsche.

for this name gender is unimportant. Maybe its more common as a boys name... I think he has named the child after a model of moterbike...

I thought I had stated teh gender... it was a PINK sprog. not a BLUE sprog.

note to self, be less subtle in future.

Bugatti? Harley? I had a friend with a dog called Harley.

I assumed that all babies are pink(ish).

While admitting that I sometimes am not very bright, can someone explain this 'bisuit' emotithingy to me?

Evening all.

Yay to the UniBaby and to Boy wanting to buy here a present.

MadBadBaby was at preschool with a girl called Harley. It's not that rare in the big bad city. MadBadBaby's full name is Mercedes Indesit Bose.

I think the biscuit is intended to encapsulate feelings on the no comment/don't trouble me with such trivia/am I bovvered? spectrum.

Has anyone opened the Bolly yet?

oh, is the biscuit meant to be used instead of then? Pot a wity. I think I preferred it with eyes as well, although I may be in the minority there...

Congrats to UniS for new DNiece - I'm thinking the middle name is likely to be Harley or Triumph, myself

Well, I dunno. That was just my interpretation. I thought it was for those occasions - when would they be, though? - when you want to make a conspicuous point about ignoring a thread. So I can't really see the distinction between and . And I don't really understand why it's a biscuit and looks so unlike the other emoticons, apart (obviously) from being a baked good while the others are representations of human physiognomy.