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!!

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Sory fur mey woberly speling ov chouette.

Puts on some relaxing music for RS to listen to while searching for Gatita's possible name...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBKcKQHZXks&feature=PlayList&p=22BADC02CB7D1A49&index=0

re Milkshake's name... RS ... seriously all along I have been thinking Rainbow Peachy Dream River or something similar would be more to your Earth Mother, lover of nature and peaceanimal camp tastes!!!!

... You are, however, very right Isla is rather a scrummy name!

I looove the baby names

Thank you for the owl words - no wonder that I couldn't think of the name when I have to know the correct type of owl. The french lady who visits DS's nursery has a lot to answer for as now he requests the french for lots of things. Although I can order wine, taxis, and talk about radiotherapy in quite a few languages, I am rather lacking in the finer details of animals...

Bonsoir tout le monde!

Racing - Have you just dropped a bijou hintette about your name? Or Wriggle's? [intrigued] I despise LOTSW but I think that it has (sigh) a sort of iconic place in the pantheon of British TV or, at least, of British sit coms. If I'm right, try Joyce's inamorata for an alternative clue.

Encore du Bolly?

I love this place! So diverse

Mary, hope MrBS's ankle is ok and indeed as CMOTD says, if he is on anti-coags it might make things worse re bruising - what was the outcome of that scenario (the DVT)?

Amber, glad you had a nice nursey and not some tyrannical old dragon - phew. Pants about the BP though.

Milk's name is luvverly and tis a v. cute pic of her with her little cousin - her hair is FANTASTIC. (rather like her namesake, Mrs BaronCohen, hey )

Catita - is Gatita's name with an H or without? A la Ms Jones, the chanteuse, or Ms Batty, of the wrinkled stockings?

Yes, DH is on anticlotting drugs, but we just wanted to make sure (before we go away) that there was nothing more sinister wrong.

Fortunately there wasn't - it was just a bad sprain! However the swine phoned me from the hospital, to say his ankle had been put in plaster!!! Of course, it hadn't!

Curses! Why didn't we think of Rainbow Peachy Dream River over the five weeks we were struggling to think of a name for Wriggle? No, Isla is not Wriggle's name, which was finally achieved by printing off all French names beginning with A to study in hospital and narrow the selection. (Bijou little hintet obviously about my name)

Oh the joys of James May's programme on the tele

Mary, I hope you handbagged dh when he came back home

Morning all. I've evicted Mellors from the sofa to set about putting up new shelves for all the French Dictionaries and episodes of Last of the Summer Wine and Meccano sets, and got some teas and coffees going.

DS's waking words this morning 'mummy, did you ask the ladies on the puter how to say owl in french ?'. He says thank you very much

There are some blueberry muffins here on the side

Yummy muffins, Cmot!

CmotTiddler's message prompts me to ask: how much (or how little) do you divulge to your various DPs and offspring abaout your MNetting? MadBadBaby is always remarking that "mummy's on MN again". I do sometimes read MadBadBloke the side-splittingly funny contributions to some of the more outre threads, but I would never mention, for example, which threads I participate in or my MN name, just in case he ever gets curious enough to snoop have a look.

What do you all do/say?

DH knows my MN name, although he doesn't generally know what I am contributing to. I occasionally get him to proffer insurance advice on MN, and let him log on as me to do so. In the very odd occasion of wanting to post something that I wouldn't want him to know was me, I name change.

In DS's world, mummy spends her working life talking to people on the computer (or helping doctors. Daddy apparently helps people whose shops have been burnt by robbers), so it's hard for him to differentiate between me asking the tearoom about owls, or my quebecois colleague - they are all virtual to him

DH knows all . One thing I've had to learn as a Vulnerable adult is to be open about what I'm doing and where, in case there's problems of communication and I need help (which I sometimes do -I can put my foot in it with lightning speed - did that twice yesterday ). My lovely team tend to have a look too, bless them. Not the confidential emails to do with work, but public things like this.

There again, I could be wrong. I asked him about mumsnet and he said "where?"

DH knows about MN. He doesn't know I've made him a chocolate cake for his birthday though... would anyone like some?

I'm also cooking him beef wellington for dinner tonight...

It's murder keeping those cows in the wellingtons long enough, I find. They stick in the mud.

Yes please for the choccy cake.

Yes please for the chocolate cake here too!

Would you like some hot chocolate to go with it? With added flake and chocolate sprinkles?

Mr. Hatita thinks I spend too much time on here and thinks I should do more work. He refers to the tearoomers as "tus comadres", which roughly translated means something akin to "good friends", although exactly it refers to a women friend who stands in as godmother to your child, or sponsor at a wedding, or other such Catholic occasion. But e has no idea of my username, or how to get on to MN.

Gatita is the Spanish version of the name, Thumb, so without a "h".

Comrades? Ooo, sounds sort of exciting. Like a Mexican western of some sort. I'll bring the horse....

Can we dress up? Ponchos? Leather chaps? Large straw hats? Or is that just Mellors' disco outfit?

Catita - Do you speak Spanish at home?

And a shoulder-slung gun belt or two?? (Only for decoration, of course - not real live ammo!)

Not sure we'll get our horse anywhere near any cattle, though - he's a bit scared of anything that moves. Maybe a blindfold for him?

Daisy- this may vary depending on where you live BUT , in Devon, a parent can defer a childs school entry into reception class( after a place has been offered and accepted) untill the term they turn 5. So for a summer born they would start at Easter. howver to defer untill yr one requires a new application for a yr one place. And defering reception entry till AFTER they turn 5 requires exectional social or medical need. The county will continue preschool place for ( currently) 12.5 or 15 hours per week ( area dependant) untill child starts school. parents can also ask for flexi time schooling in reception. some schools cope with this better than others.
You "should" find all this info for your LEA on teh LEA web site, you may have to dig a little.

Thumb- boy likes drinking games too, 1st you chink, then you drink, helps me get him hydrated regulary.After enough apple juice he has been heard to slur " daddy, I Luv you".

Under arm Norks !!!!! that has to be bad on teh future saggyness front.

Hot choc over here please, need something to sustain me during the epic form filling I am about to do. Solicitors stuff for buying house, mortgage application too. I have to do it as Dh has unreadable hand writing - even when he IS trying to be neat.

Hopefull new uniabobe will be a small 3 bed detached property, it looks like bungerlow but has rooms in loft. I wentto look at sheds today :-) I like sheds. thinking about spending some to buy a good shed that will last many many years and hold all the wheels.

One hot choc with flake, cream and sprinkles coming up UniS. Should strengthen you up for form filling.

I have shed . I had a lovely shed to keep my motorbike in at previous house, and had to leave it behind.

The rest of this week will largely involve airports for me. And then a visit to my parents on Saturday. Cunningly, I have suggested lunch at their favoured pub about which I have heard much as (amazingly if you are 70) it is a thai buffet. They are overwhelmed with excitement about this, even if my mum had to phone me 3 times to check this was the plan

A Thai buffet? Yum. We know an ex-pub that is now a Thai restaurant but the pub and buffet combo sounds very enticing.

The UniAbode sounds great. Does the fact that it's detached mean there will be land? Space for a giant shed? I have just re-designed the garden (in my head, yet to do the manual labour) to create room for a shed. There comes a time in a woman's life when she needs a shed.

It feels a bit late for hot chocolate now. Shalll we open some Bolly?

moderate shed, am thinking 8x 16 foot rather than meters. Have to stay under certain size to avoid planning restrictions. moderate size garden, much bigger than postage stamp we had at old house.