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!!

Luckily missed that bit of assembly while trying to find the words on google, The Teachers' Friend. Will certainly use your words next time as far easier to remember.

Morning

Uni, I feel stressed just reading about house buying. We had half of an annus horribilis from about Sept 06 to May 07 which involved almost buying a house, pulling out the day before exchange having spent £1000 on structural reports, gymhubby suffering from serious workplace bullying, gymgirlie getting allocated the most grim school in the area and moving house twice, so even thinking about going back on that roundabout makes me queasy. Now enscoonsed as we are in our (last ever) house with the girlie happy in a lovely school it all seems a bit unreal.

RS - What a fab idea - let's e-mail to hatch a plan. I will CAT you.

Thanks for all info on Thanksgiving everyone!

• Unis we were late two days ago because Milk kep walking in the wrong direction or stopping to look at leaves which slowed us down massively!

"Aren't you sad that you are late?"

"No I liked my lovely walk."

I wonder though (sounds like RS) five minutes of inspecting a leaf or daydreaming instead of rushing to school isn't too terrible once in a while.

if he were happy about being 10 mins late or even had enjoyed teh 10 mins he wasted it would be fine, but he wasn;t and didn;t. He wasted time whingeing that he couldn;t do it, what ever it was I was asking him to do. from finishing his ceareal, through getting down from table to coming up stairs and brushing jis teeth. He really does drive me up teh wall some mornings. ARRRRRRGH. thank goodness he IS an only, I'd be knocking heads together if there were 2 of them at it.

I think we will be pulling of this purchase. we haven't wasted much money on it yet, just time. Have already asked teh conveyancers to hang fire till further instruction.

Have never bought a house, so am awed that anyone feels grown up enough to do it. Hope you find the perfect house next time.

Very excited at the thought of being catted!

Tea, I'm sure that if we charge each other postage at cost, we will be far cheaper than Amazon (or was it FNAC) which quoted me 15 euros for a little plastic figure of Kirikou!!!

What are kirikou?

Not happy, need TLC

They say that house-buying is the third most traumatic life event after divorce and bereavement. I don't know that for a fact as, despite much provocation, MBBloke and I are still married, but it certainly rings true.

I share UniS's pain at having a child who won't get ready on time yet simultaneously frets about being late.

Mary - What is your preferred sort of TLC? Tea and cakes winched down into the priest's hole? Gin? CDs of Elgar and Beethoven? A shoulder massage from Mellors? A bracing swim in the castle's heated pool? (I think the priest's hole has a flotation tank hidden behind the cobwebs, although some of us (me included) would not find that a calming experience). Would any of these help?

Racing and Tea are the experts on all things francophone, but Kirikou is a French cartoon (and book).

a big hug please, and for the pain to go away

not tried teh other 2 recently but yep, house buying and maybe worse house selling at right up on teh bad experiences scale.

Virtual hug to Mary, and a large slug of Calpol, followed by chocolate.

I'm supposed to be doing some house work so its not a total tip when DH gets home, BUt keep getting distracted.

Its heartache and anxiety rather than actually pain, sorry for being confusing

((((hug)))) for Mary.

Kirikoou is so much more than just a cartoon, which makes it sound on a parr with Scoobydoo. It is .... words fail me. I think we'll get a copy for the tea room wet day DVD shelf.

(In hushed tones)

Racing - I have only judged the books by the cover, but I've always worried that Kirikou might be, ahem, a bit un-PC for modern times and so I haven't bought any of the books, DVDs, toys, beautiful though they look. (I was thinking of this again last night when I was watching the programme about Enid Blyton and thinking about her gollies). Do the books contain attitudes that one might have to explain are outdated and unacceptable now, or am I worrying needlessly?

Quite the opposite I think. Couldn't be PC-er. Obviously the main characters are black, but then they are African. Hero is a superhero baby who is born speaking (in fact gives his mother instructions about birth) and villain is a witch who - obviously - ends up being good. Lots of adventures and cleverness. The only thing English school children have had problems with is that the women tend to be topless, which is why I think they should be shown it and told that that is what people often do in hotter countries, grow up and get over it.

Racing we have had a fair amount of success getting french books via Amazon, not of course that Tea isn't a whole heap nicer as a courier

Mary what is your pain, lovey, is it DS related? Is he having a hard time today? ((((Hugs)))) to go with cake and chocolate

MadBad I quite often metaphorically hoist my bosom (wouldn't work in real life, hands would just shoot from hips to shoulders iyswim)

Moving is the pits. Apart from the fact I got a fixed rate mortgage at just the wrong time I am glad never to have to contemplate such things ever again....

Its sort of DS related, another example of his being left out of things because people don't trouble to make an effort (why isn't there a crying smiley?), or unfairly compare his reactions to that of the average 8yo. I despair of people, I really do. Want to stay in the hole and never come out, much less deal with people who aren't being cooperative.

Oh Mary, people can just be horribly thoughtless and selfcentred at times. Pish to them I say.

I am about to enter the bookshop at Brussels airport to buy french books, so will look for Kirikou.

We walked through the Christmas market place this morning on the way to the Metro - it really felt christmassy, even shut !

oh Mary it is heartbreaking, I am so sorry for you

Does DS have any lovely friends you could invite over or bring up as cavalry to restore your (and his) faith in the world?

Failing that, let me lower some mulled wine and a mince pie into the priest hole

CMOT sounds fun! I saw the backs of the stalls on the south bank this morning and thought of you!

He doesn't know he's being left out. Not yet, anyway. I haven't finished yet...

He doesn't have many friends, so will leave him to play happily, while I sit in the hole

People can be very very non-understanding of difference, alas.

Did shopping today. It was an experience. I'm not saying more than that . I've lived through it. There should be a medal...

medals all round, thats what we need. Mellors... Oi, Mellors, get your arse up here and fire up teh forge, There is medal making to be done.

In teh mean time unis passes round teh large bottle of something nice and a bowl of twiglets, fresh ones, not at all nibbled by anything.

Back on my own sofa now Shop only had Barbapapa, and I find that hard enough to read in english.

Olives anyone ?

purleseeee . love olives.
This evening I'm 3/4 watching Ballet shoes ( again) The film takes a few liberties with the book but is still pretty good.

So curl up on teh sofa snuggle under blanket and lets indulge girlish fantasies of dancing .

Ok, so Kirikou's now on the shopping list for Christmas.

Daisy - Hoisting one's bosom is, I think, a metaphor. But, in some cases, a necessity.