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 love Ballet Shoes - in fact most Noel Streatfield. Real comfort reading.

Next week is v exotic - Manchester. I think DH may be busy though judging by the flooding, so it's a good thing I'm around.

All my shopping is being done online, so I'm going riding

comfort reading, thats teh phrase. I do like comfort reading. I'm gently collecting Monica Edwards books for just that. I have owned on and off a lot of Noel stretfeild, all have been good reads at somepoint but onlya few I chose to keep. The other week I ran across a couple of Angela Brazil books in a charity shop and tehy are waiting for a read. Havn;t been in teh right mood for them yet.
I'm on a social and oral history kick at teh mo, Just read books about Bevin Boys sent mining during WW1 and Land Girls in same period, current book is a collection of previously unpublished autobiographies of childhood between 1820 & 1920, makes me realise quite how far schools have come in under 200 yrs.

Not Christmas shopping tomorrow. Going to a festival of Blacksmithing at local foundry. Dh arrives home after 24 hours travelling and I think Boy needs to be kept out the way for part of teh day or poor daddy will be bounced to bits.
Tis St Clements day we will be celebrating en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Clement%27s_Day not sure boy will beg for apples... apple juice maybe.

Thanks for asking Madbad, I've been out all evening, listening to this man. Very inspirational. I then had a chance encounter with someone I knew slightly, who was also there, and just talking to her made me feel a lot better. Not talking about what had happened with DS, but just sharing and chatting - was good!

Still need to kick someone up the arse, but I feel a lot stronger now, all power to my boot!

Gosh mary not just any old Bishops, but Arch Bish O'York you do move in heavenly circles .

Do think he knows about the tea rooms neighbouring bishops and what they get up to windsurfing on the lake?

That's good to hear, Mary. Perhaps you should play football with your ds - it would provide an outlet for your urge to kick ! Will you be preaching this weekend?

UniS. That's fascinating. I love MN. It's like the OU with twiglets.

what do we feel
The need to kick someone

when do we feel it
when we see our kids being ignored and left out.

NOt sure its gonna catch on, maybe needs some editing as a slogan.

Am not keeping up terrible well with things here at the mo, sorry - but:

Mary, so to hear of your boy's woes - It must be so hard.

UniS - not sure whether or not commiserations are in order re. house; buying them is an awful pita.

Hope all the rest of you are well - I am a little less down now, but it is v. hot here (not pleasantly, the sort of hot where you mostly stay inside with the aircon on.

MiniThumb has discovered that one sure-fire way to get our attention if we aren't paying him enough is to pour his drink all over the floor. Thankfully the floors are all polished wood but it's still v. annoying. Am not looking forward to future manifestations of his will...

LOL Unis. There were 2 other bishops there, so perhaps they were planning a midnight trip after the talk? Like the football slogan.

Madbad, not due to preach this w/e - was supposed to last w/e, but was of course at DLP instead!

Glad you're feeling less down Thumbwitch, it IS hard to keep up, isn't it? And Eek! re: minithumb! I seem to recall one of mine doing that.

Just been to morning prayer this am, at the Cathedral (I often do this on a Sat), only to find it had been hijacked by the AbY for a communion service, and lots of groupies were in attendance who aren't normally there! And the bishop of Ely was there too, so maybe I'M becoming a groupie too? . (I have to admit I missed the peace and quiet of morning prayer though

Security guards really do wonder about me. There I was, minding my own business, pondering where to find rugby boots, and up comes a security guard. "Ello!" he said. "Can we help you?".
Most unusual, this. I'd bet that most people only have the sales assistants come up to them to ask them things like that, but not me. I get the security guards, puzzled by my body language, I guess.
But seizing on the opportunity, I got him to show me where the boots were, and get an assistant for me, too. And we ended up chatting.

Weird, my life.

Who's for cheese and coleslaw baguette/selection of sandwiches and a nice herbal tea/beverage of their choice?

You always seem to upset the security guards!

Have had cheese baguette earlier, but I always think herbal tea is a crime against nature - can't bear them . Is it too early for bolly?

ohhh colslaw bagette, yes please. do like a bit of chrunch,

YEP mARY, YOU COULD MISTAKEN FOR A bISHOPS GROUPIE, JUST AS WELL YOU DIDNT GO DOWN TEH PUB WITH THEM last night. sorry I seem to have hit caps lock there, wasn;t shouting, honest, just too lasy to re-type.

UniS, have you read the Lost Voices books ? Really fab history in the actual words of people, taken from Imperial War museum oral archives. I'd be happy to post you mine on loan if you want.

I also much enjoyed Bluestockings (about the first women to go to university in this country) and one about how the 'excess' of single women after WWI changed the country.

It is hissing it down here. We managed to get riding in before it started, then went for a quick shop, and now DS is passed out and DH is watching rugby

Think I have read some of teh loast voices seris. borrowed from libraray so not sure which were from that seris.
gotta go, boy wiggling and pleading for puuter games.

Did someone mention Bolly? It is hissing it down here too, we're not going out, so Bolly is called for, I think!

it got washed away in teh rain, sorry, Ithink I left the door open too long.
BUT teh NMBs were having a great time surfing down the drive and paddling little canoes in the courtyard.

I thought of them as I took myself off for a wet walk this afternoon down lanes running in water as every land drain on teh north side of teh moor seemed to discharging gallons per second onto teh road. It was nice to have an hour by my self out of the house, DH is home, hurrah.
He is currently snoring in an armchair just behind me, having had no sleep on the overnight flight home.

Aha! That explains it.

That sounds like a very glamorous and passionate reunion, UniS ! Although, seriously, I can understand the attraction of the solitary walk.

Look! The NMBs are paddling outside the tea room window on one of the rose-sprigged tin tea trays!

we had already spent an hour cuddled up all 3 of us on sofa watching Angelina ballerina

boy rather enjoyed it and dh and i got to snuggle up.

Sorry, UniS. We need a [gentle joshing] emoticon. I'm glad you've now got your dh at home.

MBB was always entranced by Angelina Ballerina. Does your dh share your enthusiam for dance or is it something you have to save for when he's away?

Don't know if you're all bored of my tales of bishops or not - but took the kids to the cathedral yesterday PM where they had lots of fun activities for kids, and a couple of short services, including one specifically for kids, which included ABY playing the drums - so cool! After it was all over, DS asked to meet the ABY (unheard of! Has never asked to meet anyone - would not even meet mickey mouse at DLP!). So I grabbed a passing Canon and asked him if we could queue-jump the long queue to meet him. Which we did. DS said hello to him, and tried to run away - and was grabbed by ABY who tickled DS to the floor... only DS tried to kick him! Can I get thrown out of the church for this I wonder? His foot connected, but fortunately just hit his robes! (Oh and also got to talk to the bishop of huntingdon and see the bishop of Ely - am definitely a bishop-groupie now!)

DH is used to dance. He used to come and see quite few of teh shows I worked on, so was exposed to a lot of weird contemporary dance styles. He also judges freestyle unicycling so a little knowledge of a broad range of dance styles is useful to him. But he wouldn't sit through ballet shoes or dirty dancing.

It was a DVD of an English National Ballet production, Angelina at the Palace, so real dancers in mouse heads. Respect to them, must be hot and unpleasant dancing with a head on.

Today we tried Aristocats, I liked it, Boy cuddled up and said he was scared at all the mild peril scenes, but liked the comedy/ sweet bits.

Mary you are total bishop groupie, and seems DS has caught it from you too, what a claim to fame, being tickled by the ABoY.

Mary - I always love your bishop stories and that's one of the best yet. Please keep 'em coming.

It's a wild and blowy night here. Think I might rummage through the DVD box and see what comfort viewing we have. I bought a couple of French films yesterday at a table top sale (MBBloke drolly insisted that we did not need another table top, ) but I've been warned that they're far too violent for family viewing. Leon and Ronin - anyone seen them? Perhaps I'll start with Sweet Charity for all that hip-popping Bob Fosse choreography...

Who could have too many bishop stories?? The bishops are the key distinguishing feature of our tea room.

Wriggle is not at all well today and slept on my lap from 3pm until about 1o minutes ago, when she leapt up demaning to watch Merlin l'Enchanteur. Just when I was planning an Extremely Early Night.

Lovely weekend, in spite of weather, but bad news is that M. Snake has decided against Paris at Easter in favour of house hunting in Brittany, so I won't get to meet Tea, which I was really looking forward to.

Best comfort films - early Disneys, but preferably one not already watched 142 times this week.