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!!

Olives ?

umm yes please. Crisps?

Did someone mention crisps?

unis passes over giant bag of crisps, your fav flavour too I think you will find.
and a dip if you would like one.

Scoff, scoff. Gobble, gobble.

And is there any Bolly left?

glug glug, there you go One glass refilled.
hic

snore

Good morning all. Amazingly it is not raining over the tearoom garden. Features we have not seen for weeks are gleaming in the early-morning sun. Make the most of it.

Tea, I have 10 C&L books for Milk. I need you address to send them!

Gymbunny - what do you do in RL? I keep wondering. As to the rest of us: MadBad, Tea and I are in the various higher (MadBad) and lower realms of education and academia, UniS is a theatrical electrician and whizzy fireworks person, Daisy is a minor royal, CMOT is rather important in pharmaceuticals, Amber is a keeper of bishops, Mary is a Lady of the Cloth, JM is a masseuse like Phoebe in friends (my favourite charcter) and Thumb is also on the alternative side of medicine. Or at least that is how I see us. Apologies if my perceptions are wrong. Anyone not on the list is because I am still pondering or because we haven't seen them for a long time.

A keeper of Bishops?! More like the cleaning lady and chatter-to-them-about-things-they-probably-weren't-expecting-to-know-about, really We cover all sorts of topics - sexuality, hiding in cupboards, how to cope with an adviser who gets overexcited when she sees children's toys or pretty flowers or classic cars and starts flapping her hands...that sort of thing. Entertaining/alarming for them, really.

UniS, the tip about which one was the teacher was very useful indeed, and saved me from several near-mistakes

Slept till 9.30, which is unheard of for me...
Teas and coffees on the go, plus home made choccy biscuits

Am neither important, or in pharma

Bloomin cold here, and it's riding in a bit and then the grand switch on of the town lights. These are not v exciting, partly as the georgian high street houses don't have many places safe to attach them to, but it's as exciting as it gets here.

Have bought all presents for nephews and nieces, and now need to find something for mother who is short of memory and mental flexibility these days. This is tricky - never thought it would be her who was the hardest to buy for

RS, I'm not sure Jacksmama will like being a masseuse aking to Phoebe - she is a chiropracter! {grin]

I am a qualified massage therapist (I really don't think masseuse fits the bill for the sort of beating-up I do ), plus sundry other complementary therapies but have no plans to start up again in Australia, so am "retired". Am also an ex-hospital lab worker.

Hmmm. Obviously my version of the tea room was far from the truth. I did think masseuse was the medical kind, not any other.

Back home from another Christmas shopping session. For anyone with a tweenage girl to buy for, I'll mention that it's 30% off at the Body Shop this weekend if you have their loyalty card (although maybe it's only my niece who likes constantly to smell like a tangerine ). Am I the only person who still shops the quaint way by going into actual (non-virtual) shops?

'Tis raining here. So I'm watching telly while my feet gently throb. Where is Mellors with his hot stones?

PS I happen to know that Daisy is not a minor royal. She is HM The Queen - she told me so herself - and therefore about as major a royal as one can be.

madBad - here in Oz non-virual shopping is the only real way to go because the websites here are mostly shite. They are still easily 5-10 years behind on that side of things, although some of the major companies are on the ball.

Take mini-Thumb's birthday present (he's going to be 2 next Friday - how on earth did that happen?) - I wanted a desk/table for him that woudl be washable and could be used outside and in - with a magnetic option if poss. Looked it up on the internet to see where I might find one - came up with nada. In the end, MIL and I spent most of Friday trawling around the shopping centres (gaaah! Still, at least it isn't actually December yet) and finally found exactly what I wanted in K-Mart - a Crayola desk/easel/table with magnetic whiteboard surface. Nary a sniff of such a thing on t'internet, though!

I like the idea of being a firework whiz, but I'm not actually one of those. Saw unexpected fireworks yesterday as we ended up at town Christmas lights turning on instead of at the park.

We also visited a proper tea room,lump sugar and tongs, check,generous size cup and matching saucer, check, tea menu with over a dozen black or green teas, check.

Pub quiz tonight so hope you have a nice evening in if your in.

I'm not a fan of virtual shoppping, why would I want to buy glassware from Amazon and have it kicked about in a courier van when I could buy it in town and take responsibility for it arriving home in one piece.

Drat! Composed a fascinating and witty post a couple of hours ago, inviting everyone to partake of a scrumptious afternoon tea. It must be somewhere in hyperspace.

Well, I am feeling virtuous because MBBaby and I have just cleared out the Augean stable that is her bedroom. One less job to do tomorrow. Now, while UniS is exercising her brain in the pub quiz, I am blobbing in front of the telly.

Bolly, anyone?

Morning

Am rather relieved to be back in work after the weekend. Although to be fair, it was nice to have mil here this time, she seemed to enjoy lunching out and pottering which is what we seemed to spend the entire time doing. I set off bright and early this morning for a meeting in Derbyshire, the weather was horrible but after an hour I got a call from my boss telling me it was cancelled so I turned around and came in to the office. As for what i do in rl, I am always a bit scared to say out loud what I do as members of a couple of very specific threads on mn have had terrible experiences with people doing my job and have nothing good to say for my type. And I'm scared of being 'outed' to be honest.

Probably better, Gymbunny, to make something up in terms of occupation, such as 'I am a toy historian' or a turkey plucker, because now we will all be trying to work it out. (Or is that just me?)Are you possibly one of Daisy's ladies in waiting?

You can have great fun making up professions too - when I had been accepted on a training scheme to work for a highly unpopular establishment (although not directly doing anything with the dodgy bit), I decided to tell everyone that I was a sanitary inspector, and no one would ever ask anymore questions

Ok then, I am a traffic warden and travel far and wide around the country gaining perverse pleasure in slapping tickets on windscreens.

Hello all.
I just thought I'd drop by for a quick moan... (sorry but your my only audience at the moment)

Things are not getting much better at Hacienda Hatita. Gatita is still a martyr to colic and Kittenito, having just got over his tummy bug now has picked up a nasty cough. He had a temperature all last night and was hard to settle.

To top things off, Mr. H has gone to Mexico City for a works thing and isn't back til tomorrow night.

However at this precise moment, both darlings are enjoying a rare moment of joint sleep.
I'm off to join them in the land of nod, if I can manage it.

Hugs, cupcakes, drink of your choice and sleepy vibes Catita. Hope it gets better soon.

Sort of Traffic Warden Without Portfolio Gymbunny ?

Traffic warden without porfolio, I like the sound of that. Am about as popular, but many of my clients will say how nice I am. I have the same employer as a traffic warden....