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!!

Wow, Catita. So pleased!

oh Catita that is wonderful news, I was thinking of you this morning and said a few words to the Great Spirit but didn't manage to log on, so GOOD STUFF

I was also thinking - Amber about your Things up There and how much I appreciate insight into your wonderful way of thinking - I learn a lot from you

And UniS I worried that I didn't come back to you on the "teaching to read before school" I agree that some of the phonic books are really interesting - I love the Poppy and Sam farm ones that all rhyme (sleep/ sheep/ red pig one comes to mind - not that this does rhyme ) I was looking round a school and started reading a phonic book all about the family getting wet, made me laugh (and get left behind)

Anyway, long windedly saying this does not, I think, count for what MadBad was saying about teaching to read before school ...

Anyway, bacon sarnies and love to you all
feeling a bit tired and incoherent here!

Catita - That is such good news. Hooray. Here is some celebratory bunting.

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Daisy - Tired and emotional at 3pm? I thought you would be sober as a judge (geddit)!

I think Daisy is summing up what I was trying to say about pre-school reading. Some of the phonic books are great fun - we loved Shark in the Park - and do work well as bedtime stories. But I think there'a a huge difference between the sort of learning which is incidental to enjoying a story together and over-formalised teaching where pushy over-anxious mothers make their wee children recite ah, ah, ah, bur, bur, bur until their poor little brains melt. Anyway, that's enough from me on that.

Would anyone like a cream tea to celebrate Catita's good news? Tea, scones, butter, raspberry jam, clotted cream, we have it all!

please can I have scones and cream and tea

so MadBad do you think I was wrong to give DaisyBoy Mandarin Flashcards at 6 months

The tired and emotional may have something to do with the fact that I was up working until 3am then up again at 7:30 and another late night beckons

Right, off to the next Thing

Mm, scones and cream! In RL, I have rice pudding in the oven, to be served with bramble jelly, which is obviously the only kind of jam to have with rice pudding, and blackcurrant jam is NOT BETTER. I don't know what is WRONG with DH sometimes.

And what better reason for scones and cream than Catita's news.

Anyone got a good Halloween name for me? I was DontKillMeBaby last year, I'm not too keen.

Hurray for Catitas mum !

Don't get too run down Daisy - make sure you have a break for real food

Having just had a rl scone, I can attest to the fact that the tearoom ones are far superior. Big, light and fluffy and not at all like the small rockbun imitations that come out of my oven.

DCMB: Dontcallmeavampire/ghoul/zombie ??? Or are these equally naff? I am useless with names.

Thanks for all your good wishes about my mum. I am feeling abbout 3 stone lighter today than I have for weeks. When, seeing as I made a dozen scones yesterday and have just eaten the last one with my eleveneses, am I probably that much heavier.

I blame the baby... she's hungry.

DontCallMeFromBeyondTheGrave? Or is that too long?

I'm not going for a Halloween name, but am considering either a name to commemorate my licensing (LicensedToBeMaryBS) or for All Saints Day (HailMaryBS)

I like Don'tCallMeBabyFromBeyondTheGrave

BUNTING for Catita's mum (I can't do bunting, will leave that to MadBad and Daisy.

Why is it called a "cream" tea?

Hello everyone.

Catita - Sadly, the only place my scones are edible is here!

DontCallMeBaby - I like the suggested Halloween names. Or how about DontHauntMeBaby?

Jacksmama - Because they're served with cream, I guess.

MaryBS - at HailMary. When do you get your licence (or have you got it)?

Daisy - The flash cards are a mistake, darling, because if DaisyBoy had any gumption at all he would simply teach himself Mandarin from a book, as MadBadBaby did. Well, she had got rather tired of Greek. (Disclaimer - this is meant as a joke)

So, who'd like some Bolly? I think we should have Mellors take some wholesome snacks and an energy drink round to Daisy. Meanwhile we can eat all the twiglets

Rats, Don'tCallMeBabyFromBeyondTheGrave is too long. I liked that one!

Yes, I've had to discard a few very, erm, droll names because they were too long. Still, it'll soon be time to think about Christmas names ....

Oh crikey, who am I going to be for Christmas??

Bit early to be thinking about it, but I'll kick off with

JacksSecondChristmas
JacksToddlerChristmas
SantasComingToJacksHouse

Hello all,

Catita - I am thrilled for you and your Mum. You must feel like a very heavy weight has been lifted from your shoulders.

Congrats MaryBS - I feel a name change to HailmaryBS is defo in order!!!

Talking about religion (nice link)... On the way home from Milk's babysitter she found a snail. We brought him home and he is currently in the coffee jug with some leaves and an apple that Milk gathered for him next to her bed (she has asked to sleep in her bed lately - I feel our co-sleeping days are drawing to an end but that is another story).

Milk's babysitter is a Muslim. Beerfortwo asked Milk "What will you call your snail?" "Allah" Milk chirped. Interesting -I think she has realised that this name is very special to her babysitter but doesn't quite know what it means yet... Beerfortwo managed to convince her that Mr Snail is a more appropriate name!

HailMaryBS is totally wonderful

what about DCMBabyfrombeoyondthegrave or is that still too long?

and JingleJangleJack for christmas?

sorry, inspiration is low
I was daisy99malign last year, should I again?
I did something foolish with a poinsettia for christmas which I shan't repeat

Oh look, here comes Mellors with wings - he's on the Red Bull I feel better already

Oh heck, the NMBs have found it too, they are zomming around like nobodies business. I might have to duck

Really liking all these ideas.

PMSL at a snail called "Allah"... fantastic!!!

I get my license on 31 October. LOL at Milk and the snail.

Coffee and croissants anyone?

Catita, yippeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

Tea, he went with his school, though that means a casual sort of arrangement whereby the school makes some vague arrangements and hopes that they'll all get there somehow and stay somewhere, mostly. It's that sort of culture, deliberately. And of course hopes they get back again. Sometimes they do. It often goes wrong. First time ever it went right

Daisy, literal habit of a lifetime - any time someone says "what's up", I have to look upwards to find out. Sometimes it's quite interesting, too. Doing some work with the CPS at the moment and they're scribbling furiously too . Mandarin flashcards?! - Not ones showing naked small oranges, I guess?

Had friends over from the Falklands yesterday - brilliant to see them, but so tiring trying to concentrate that hard for hours.

Ooh, if that includes a slice of virtual fat free fried bread I'll have some.

Have been quite absent in the last few days due to a BigThing at work, which is done now. Today is a much easier day, as we head off to nice local hotel for lunch meeting. Just had the menu emailed to me: selection of sandwiches, lamb kofta kebabs, stuffed aubergine with mediterreanean veg, thai style fish balls and crispy potato wedges . Beats my usual ryvita and laughing cow cheese.

catita - that's great news about your mum, you must be so relieved.
jacksmama - did you manage to get your data back from your blackberry?
amber - how was maberboy's trip?

Cream tea- a local speciality round here . Tradition has ist that Devon Dairy maids didn;t make butter unless it was needed for cooking, they made clotted cream as standard and that was used in place of butter in scones/ butties etc. So a Devon cream tea is
Tea to drink accompanied by scones, cut in half and each half slavered with clotted cream and topped by jam. A Cornish Cream tea is slightly different, they do Jam first and then a small blob of cream on top.

Which is not nearly enough clotted Cream.

JM 2nding something along lines of JingleJangleJacksma for your christmas name.

Not sure I can be arsed to dig up the halloween name.

Mmmm, I love cream tea! I think I'd go Devon cream tea, the more cream the better.

Hello all... I am mindmapping but have run out of things to put in my mindmap...look

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/preschool/848090-If-your-child-39-s-class-could-have-a-class

Any ideas? Peeeerlease!!!! - xxx

Indeed, the Cornish have just got it wrong.

Clotted cream is such a fab thing, use it as a spread, or as lump on corn flakes, or on ice cream or in hot choc, or or or ( or just eat it off a spoon)

NMBs with wings!!! cute, but somehwhat hazzardous arn;t they. I just got one tangled in my hair when I stood up into its flight path.

I think a Dorset cream tea resembles a Devon cream tea.

Would love to meet a snail called Allah!

Great news - Wriggle stayed two hours at nursery without crying! When I went back to pick her up she was making a divali lamp out of clay and sequins. I want to go there! (What I actually did was sit in the car and do some mending while listening to Woman's Hour. Lovely. )

Am not having a Halloween name as a protest against the commercialization and Americanization of something I enjoyed as a child, with stories and pumpkins.