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!!

ohhhhhhh mellors.

What a grim day we've been having. Is the sun out of kilter with Mercury, or summat?

Excellent advice from Daisy and Catita, I think. Well done, Thumb, for broaching the subject with MrThumb. Don't give up.

Cmot - Is this the beginning of a London meet-up?

Mellors - If it is, can you add to the massage services and maybe do some Botox or a little liposuction? And could you bring me some Bolly?

unis subsides in heap snoring blissfully.

I'm so sorry, UniS. What was I thinking of?

My, Mellors, you are good HHHHMMMMM

uuuummmm

CMOT fab you are bringing Tiddler, I am sadly almost entirely unaware of what to do in London without a small these days! We loved WW last year, lots of free wandering and the rides are tokens so we gave DaisyBoy 2 tokens and free choice - he spent so long choosing I don't think he felt hard done by at all (think it was about £4) and they let us join him free. I was particularly taken with the "reindeer" - your common or garden horses sporting antlers

Also I think WW is a great mix between an English Fair (so lots of brusque "charm" and "up you hop loves" with smoking and lolling) at one end and a German Fayre at the other (so lots of smiles, politeness, steely gazes, napkins in holders, lederhosen and embroidery) at the other

I wouldn't do Eye - an hour is a long time with a screaming person I'd stick to the fayre along the south bank - and I would hearily recommend the bagel shop just behind the County Hall hotel, we may even have cycled there on purpose

You could try the NFT for kids films or a trip round the national, but we are bascially loafers so I woudl walk all along the south bank to Bankside then over to St Paul's (which have a 1pm special children's carols on 19th if you are into that sort of thing) and a bus home or river boat home and then over Waterloo bridge into Covent Garden the next day [even more excited emoticon]

Racing I agree with Unis and 3 - it is hard donig so many things independently and having to conform with the ideas of others out of the home, in thehome? Well, be bloody and get away with it....

Also, Racing what I find with DaisyBoy is that if he is being unreasonable and yelling and 3-ish if I respond by being firm or shouty at all it gets much much worse

If I however lower my tone to be as soft as possible and smile at him and say something very soft like "I really really love you DaisyBoy" it stops him - I think he gets overcharged and overwrought and this allows him to be a baby again and relax

I am finding, for example, that while he can do so many things for himself at the moment he wants to sit on my lap and let me feed him supper - he has sort of exhausted all his life skills by 5pm....

Just watch where those warm stones go young man!!!

Daisy, you are wonderful ! Thank you for all the ideas. I think I will have a list, and then we can decide when there what to do.
Apparently, next to seeing the horses, DS's biggest wish is to go in taxis

Next week, he has an assessment morning at school. I think he'll be OK, it'll just be getting him out again. Although he told me that his keyworker would come and pick him up from school in the nursery bus.

Could you apply your hot stones to my feet Mellors ?

Oooh, after you with the hot stones on the feet, Cmot. I need Mellors to work his magic on them.

Tea and a walnut and maple syrup muffin anyone?

Just back from a 6 hour return trip from Thornbury, near Bristol. Long way to go in the wind and rain for an hour's meeting but it's done now. I'm so tired; the rain kept waking me up all night and driving wears me out, so it is an easy tea and an early night for me. Had plans for posh sausages and mash but chucked bangers in the oven and had no energy to make the mash. Phoned dh to ask if he was OK with oven chips, of course being a man he was! Got to freezer to discover we had no chips, so gymgirlie and I are having sausages and smiley faces . I must admit I'm really looking forward to it and the girlie thinks it's her birthday (smiley faces are usually reserved for when friends come to tea). Gymhubby is bringing his own chips home. Note to self, veggies must appear on tomorrow's tea menu.

Good to see you have all been making the most of Mellors talents in the past 24 hours.

evening all, just spent a nice evening wallowing in a DVD docuentry and a can of beer and a bar of choc. NOw if I could just get a bit of sleep tonight I might feel a bit more human.

so lavender scattered about teh tea room, mellors doing his thang on my feet and I might just nod off.

CMOT... how do you feel about being quoted as saying ahhhheeem "my tonker is bigger than your tonker" next to a picture of Daisy the real Queen in The Guardian newspaper....?

!!!!

Gosh, Cmot! I read that thread - must admit I hadn't heard the word tonker before [sheltered life emoticon]. So now we have two famous tea-roomers!

How are things in gay Paree, Tea?

I too am tired and the scent of UniS's lavender wafting about the place is making me sleepy. Now that I've had another of Mellors' magical foot rubs, I'm going to drag myself onto my feet and toddle off to bed.

A selection of ovaltine, hot chocolate and Bolly is on the dresser for anyone needing a night cap. Night all!

Well it is all happening here! Algeria won a football match so 8 feet high Algerian flags are being waved along the streets and boys are hanging out of cars and fireworks are going off and drums are being banged and cars are being tooted and people are shouting "la la la la la"...

Am v proud that my newspaper appearance is in one that I actually read.

The tonker quote is actually a phrase a Terry Pratchett character uses that this household often use about people posturing.

Back to Brussels later,hoping for a smoother flight than last week. This is one of the rare moments I regret leaving the SE as getting the Eurostar was nice.

DH went to look round the Olympic site yesterday - he says it looks amazing

Am sitting here with bandage on leg. Scraped most of the skin of the front of my shin today, failing to step up onto the brick-walled section of the garden while also failing to avoid small Thumb-person's deadly aim with garden hose. My own fault though - I got the paddly pool out, and I left him with the hose for a few secs to move our clothes out of reach of wetness - of COURSE he was going to pick it up and turn it on me, that's what he loves doing!
Leg stings! ouchy ouchy ouch...

Missed your tonker quote, CMOTD - you don't fancy linking to it do you?

Oh, Thumb, ouch ouch ouch!

I had a stray thought about you this morning. Would it help the MIL situation (admittedly it might not help the $$$ situation) if you paid her rent, however minimal? That might make you more of a tenant with some rights and less of a beholden relative. Although this thing isn't primarily about money, I know, I wonder whether paying rent would subtly change the dynamics.

oh how nice that you had a thought about me, MadBad! Am feeling touched. But sadly have no $$s at all - and we have just been told that DH's family start up payments will reach the princely sum of.....

$40 a fortnight! That's half the child benefit amount in the UK! Admittedly they are giving him more in family tax credit or whatever it's called (I'm getting confused) but it makes a mockery of the hoops we had to jump through to get this money. I think we may have spent more in phone calls, printing emails, getting Land Registry docs and certified copies of docs than we are going to receive. Still, c'est la vie, he will just have to get a job sooner than he hoped.

Also, she wouldn't take the rent and DH wouldn't agree to paying it. But it was a nice idea!

I am being horrible horrible horrible! Help! I am shouting at Wriggle, snapping at Aged Parent things: 'I told you that yesterday and you wrote it down!' and making her feel insecure and useless and not getting the house any tidier or the garden any less chaotic.

And I have to go to work in 10 minutes.

And the wind has killed all my lovely wallflowers.

And I can't stop using italics!

Please lock me in the priest hole.

take a deep breath, have a swig of virtual brandy, and a virtual Ferrero rocher (or other chocolate of your choice)

about the wallflowers - don't worry about the other bits, Wriggle is having a great time windin you up and I'm sure your AP is aware that it is affecting your irritability levels.

I'd offer you a ((hug)) if it would help...

Now, at everyone brightly and say "see you all later, I hope you have a lovely afternoon"

"Wallflowers don't mind being flattened, sometimes. There may be hope.

Use of italics is permitted in times of extreme stress.

Yes please to choc"

Drooping wallflowers? More stress?