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!!

BRAVO Wriggle and RS!!!! I am very impressed!!!!!

RS You very nearly did meet Allah - he IS (according to she who throws paddies the best) NOT CALLED MR SNAIL HE IS CALLED ALLAH) as he escaped from the coffee pot and was found trying to climb inside the computer!

Tomorrow Allah is going to go to school as according to Milk and Milk's teacher who I asked because I didn't believe Milk they have been studying snails this week and it will be very nice if Milk could bring her new pet into class...

If you are feeling at all glum tomorrow please just think of us traveling to school on the Metro with a coffee pot with a snail in it!

Hurrah for Wriggle !

I have returned home. The meeting was trying. Lots of people ignoring the elephant in the room, and making positive noises but not actually committing to anything. I regret to say that I was forced to be the one who kept asking the question till it was finally answered.

We appear to have a housefull of people coming for the weekend. DH not due to return from da smoke until 6pm (he is on a jolly networking tonight). Looks like its a day of washing sheets, cleaning and trying to do some actual work round that for me tomorrow

Phew! Have spent the evening on work which can best be described by my (probably) favourite word of all time - nugatory. But It Is Over.

Am exhausted and must go to bed but wanted to say hoorah for brave Wriggle and stoical Racingsnake.

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Hurrah for Wriggle and Racing!!!!

Don't let pumpkin gloom hit you, we are going to carve a pumkin and make costumes and go up and down our street and it will be wonderful because I was never allowed to go as a child I might even bob for an apple

like Charlie in the Koala Brothers

I shall think of Allah and the Coffee Pot and await reports

RAR RAR CMOTDimbleby

I am a little concerned that Mr CMOT may not come home at all .... I remember his last night on the piss evening entertaining in Town

Hola MadBad
I am working too - can't you tell
I have a HUGE meeting tomorrow but nobody thought it important to actually get the stuff to me in time.... grrrrrrrrr

Ay-up, our Daisy.

So you are taking DaisyBoy begging? MadBadBaby thinks she is going to spend half term shopping for her Halloween outfit. I rather regret letting her go trick or treating two years ago, as I disapprove (sour old bat that I am) of its unsavoury mix of American commercialisation and demanding money sweets with menaces. She, though, is desperate to wander the streets. Because I am extremely old, trick or treating hadn't even been invented when I was a child. But then, the Pilgrim Fathers had only been in America for a couple of years at that point.

We made a halloween outfit last year [smug ]

I think it will fit this year too

No, we don't beg. We visit our neighbours who have pumpkins in their windows. Only them. About 10 - 15 of us (well about 40 when parents are added) it is rather chaotic and slightly drunken fun. We are going to all eat out together too. DaisyMan is thinking he might run away and swim the Limpopo instead

I think you could just dress up as a Pilgrim Father and fit right in, MadBad

G'day tearoom ladies, glad to have found you! We have had a trying couple of weeks without internet - we had to leave MIL's quite rapidly thanks to drunken BIL rage and violence, most unpleasant, and came to our house a little sooner than planned (no bed, no telephone, no oven, you get the picture)

Anyway, finally we have t'internet back on and Normal Service can resume!

Hope you are all doing well, I can't read back on everything I've missed or MrThumb will have a fit but I hope Catita is doing ok and her mum's test results were better rather than otherwise.

No doubt will catch up later!

Is it important to get the stuff for meetings? As far as I can tell, meetings never involved actually looking at any of the stuff. First they start late, then someone takes the meeting off at a tangent from which it never really recovers, then it descends into a bunfight for a while, then someone brings in tea and biscuits and the discussion turns to whether they should have decorated the room differently. Then it's Any Other Business which is filled with commentary on things bizarre, then they go to the pub over the road for a swift one. Sometimes a few legal points are made, but I think entirely by accident.

There again, I'm talking about the RCJ lot at their worst... And they often nick my copy of Good Housekeeping. Tsk.

Tea, coffee, croissants, fruits and cereals for all.

That sounds just like the kind of meetings I go to, but without the pub at the end .

We have a really busy Halloween planned. Gymgirlie is going to a school disco tonight, so last years pirate costume will be dusted down. Then next week, she has a friend's sister's 3rd birthday party, and then we are leaving that slighly early to turn up slightly late to a school friends Halloween party. After which we might try a bit of begging in our street, which is particularly popular for that. gymhubby will be manfully manning the front door while we are out, which he will no doubt just love

I am so so glad it's half term next week. I'm working form home Monday so it will be lovely to not have to rush about in the morning. Then also have Thursday and Friday off. I can't wait, I have all sorts of plans for cinema and Starbucks trips with the girlie.

What's everyone else doing today?

I am having a very Fridayish Friday with Vultures Class (name changed - but not much - in case oneof you is actually a mum from my class). Started with me saying 'Turn to page 34' child asking, 'What page is that then?' and comprehension then went downhill.

Resisted ordering chocolate from shop-run person and now am regretting it.

Come to think of it, I may have been on the Mayflower with MadBad.

My Friday is also extremely Fridayish. But I have been fortified by a Bounty (chocolate bar, not a free bag of nappies).

I do love the idea that Racingsnake and I were shipmates on the Mayflower.

I shan't be around for Halloween, but DH was muttering about inviting some nursery parents round to toast marmallows and eat pumpkin soup. We'll see whether that happens.

DH should be on a train by now. But hasn't phoned . By coincidence last nights hotel (not booked by him) was the same one he stayed in when he had his little 'forgetting the last train home' incident

Could reeeeaaally do with some chocolate right now. Will have to go to the farm shop when I pick DS up, and hope he doesn't insist on buying another pumpkin

A big hello and welcome back to Thumb I was beginning to wonder how you were getting on.

A big hurrah for RS and Wriggle. It sounds like nursery could become an approved activity.

Tea I can't help thinking that with a title like "Allah and the Coffee Pot" you really ought to start writing an Arabian Nights' style fairytale about the snail for us.
(Although, in the interests of being culturally sensitive, I'd better be careful as I wouldn't like to offend anyone with this line of joking. I am pretty sure Islam does not allow the use of "Allah" as a name, it being sacred for being that of the prophet's.)

Arrrrrrgh. its friday, and boy do we know it.

Boy is being vile, I'm being moody and cross. Dh is at work, and the in laws are arriving around boys bed time. Great.

I've just phoned DH, told him to get home early as we are having tea early and boy is going to bed early - BEFORE the grandparents arive. I REALLY don;t want them keeping him up late and making him even more horrid than he already is.

I want cake. chocolate cake with lots of iceing. and coffe cake, and a hot choc.
Arrrr Thank you mellors. SO good to see the tea room of requiremnets again. do I HAVE to go back to RL.

Boy Still hasn;t taken his shoes off, he started not taking his shoes off 5 mins ago.

Today, mad dash round shops, passing by the Flickering Lighting Hazards and the We Don't Have the Right Number of Medicines panic in the chemists.

Then a day wrestling accounts and legalities into place for the business expansion, lightly interleaved with some advisory work on autism and a bit of consultancy on property lettings. Lunch with an old friend, a few words of greeting to DS before he disappeared out to basketball, and now some typing of reports(er, and a cuppa, and mumsnet). Is it evening yet?? Can I go home???

Just wanted to say a big "good luck" to those who aren't looking forward to half term all that much!

Although every day with DD (fed up with calling her DD, now calling her Orangina) is a joy, naturally, I still am planning on getting in an extra couple of bottles of wine, for me, not her, she's only 3.

Catita, I think you'd have more problem if you called the snail Mohammed, but not sure about that. Like the idea of the book though!

Chocolate cake and double hot chocolate with extra cocoa, whipped cream AND marshmallows for those who partake is available. Although by now you probably have opened the bolly...

Can I stir my double hot chocolate with extra cocoa, whipped cream AND marshmallows with a flake? If so, i'm in. Back from school disco (which was in church hall), lots of littlies dressed as ghouls running around spilling hot dogs everywhere - it was a triumph. Gymhubby met us at the end and pizzas were bought, have been eaten and gymbunny waiting for the moment when the wine can be opened, which will be soon.

Unis runs through teh tea room screaming and dives into the priest hole.

Gymbunny - take two flakes. Gwan, you know you deserve it.

Thumb - meant to say earlier, but was distracted by RL, is MIL OK ? Was BIL actually violent to you

House clean, washing done, guest beds changed, spare room tidied, all ready for guests now. Just time to open the Cloudy Bay I think before they arrive.

UniS, you in there? Need a stiff drink?

all chocolate products gratefully recieved.

Just as I thought I had a handle on the crapness of today, I read my e-mail and it now looks like I do not have 10 days of work lined up in December. BUM, it may turn into 2 days IF a company I am associated with get the tender.
AND - had some local info/ gossip that suggests that a house we are interested in buying may not be of standard construction built 3 years ago. But may be a steel or timber frame, of unknown (as yet)age.

The inlaws are not here yet, but did phone to say they were stopping for dinner so didn't want a meal when they got here. I had one sorted of course, and an alternative light supper in case they didn't want curry. So nuts to them. curry and un cooked naan bread has all gone in frezer. Rolls and cold meat and cheese will be eaten for lunch tomorrow.
Its a bit of pain, they never commit to weather they will want a meal on arrival.

I am escaping the house at 9am to go and help on Mums & tots stall at village carnival day. And of course to deliver Boys entry to teh village show. He is entering the under 5s "decorated biscuit" class. Also have a scarecrow to erect in teh garden in teh morning. With one thing and another I should be able to avoid family for most of teh morning.

I may jump back in again later.

stiff drink. Good idea Gymbunny. I had a beer at dinner time, I think it helped.