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!!

This sounds like a case for emergency Bolly. Possibly on an intravenous drip.

CMOTD - thanks for asking, luckily myself and miniThumb weren't hurt, nor MIL, only MrThumb and much of the furniture. I had to take miniThumb out of the way because it was very frightening - I was screaming like a girl, so embarrassing, as stuff was being flung around. BIL was drunk but that is no excuse.

We are now dealing with another ishoo - neighbour-type this time - our new neighbour plans to remove all the trees in her garden which will cause us huge problems as they are 30ft high and provide us with lots of shade and screening from the road - once they are gone, we will also suffer from heavy exposure to the sun and people driving on the road will be able to see right into our windows unless I put nets or screens on all of them. We are so angry that we have a tree-hater moving in next to us - but there is little we can do. We have contacted the council and they say she is not allowed to take down any gum trees but she already has (and once they're gone, they're gone ) but there is nothing to stop her taking down the pines. Some of them have been there for over 100 years by the look of them and this idiot is just getting rid of them.

TS, putting on the extra strong tea/coffee/other for you. Goodness me...
and for all else needing one

Guess you could put up screens between you and them but not sure how easy they would be to source or what the laws would say about boundary heights?

How sad to live next door to a tree murderer. Practicalities - can you put up a 'sail' for shade and put up net curtains / put up trellis for privacy. Emotional - could you plant some trees yourself and make a wax image. I would want to move, but that is a childish response. It would be far more adult to make the situation work somehow.

Much sympathy to Unis for her In-laws situation. I hope have manages to down sufficient quantities of wine and chocolate to see you through.

Thumb Have you thought about planting a ficus or nims tree? Both are extremely quick growing and very shady (we have them in the garden). They survive with pratically no water and love the sun.

I'm glad to say it is raining here. The temperature is a much more respectable 24 and so I don't feel quite so hot. Still sweating though... although I see on another thread that this isn't an unusual thing in late pregnancy.

thank you for tree suggestions - not sure they would fit though, sadly, as our house is only 3 ft from the boundary fence . However we will definitely be planting something there, maybe bottlebrushes, and I have a request in to the council to find out how high a fence I can put between us.

UniS - I hope you survive the ILs visit - I hate it when people are deliberately vague about things, or worse still, deliberately contrary - it's so unnecessarily unkind.

Perhaps we should have a wax image making course in one corner of the tea room...

btw, has anyone heard from Donk or mistlethrush at all? I was just thinking about them last night and wondered where they had got to...

Thumb, your last message was at half past midnight. What time is that with you?

UniS - at least you have a curry in the freezer for a night when you don't feel like cooking! Thinking supportive thoughts about your visit.

The Racing household is actually enjoying a visit from RacingSister. Usually she is terribly depressed and very difficult to communicate with (I wondered about bipolar disorder after seeing thye Steven Fry program), but this weekend she is reasonable and quite cheerful, but normally so. Spending time with Wriggle is confirming her that aunthood (auntdom?) is maybe the way to go, though. She is single again, due in large part to very high standards and a very low tolerance threshold.

well now RS - when I wrote it, the time was 10:36am as we were 10 hours ahead of you. However, when you read this we will be 11 hours ahead of you as your clocks have now gone back.

Glad to hear your sis is in good spirits this time and hope it lasts! my sis is one with very high standards and low tolerance (a bit of a princess if I'm honest) but her current DP is a sticker - he won't leave! But then they do have 3 DDs under 6 so you can see his point really. I don't think they are entirely happy though - he is fed up with her nagging all the time and like a donkey, is digging his heels in and getting worse the more she nags.

Hello all, from a chilled out gymbunnyhome. Gymgirlie watching Mulan 2 and gymhubby on t'other laptop . We had a nice day yesterday, involving the purchase of a winter coat for me and a 50th birthday curry for a friend of ours. Gymgirlie went to a friend of my Mums who spoiled her and let her stay up watching strictly, she was asleep on the sofa when I went for her at 11. Gymhubby stayed at the post curry party (with my blessing as it meant that I could come home, make tea and watch strictly too). Main prob was we both forgot that he didn't have a key, so he had to call me from outside the front doot at 2. Yawn.

We've had a lazy day today, rib of beef is slowly reaching room temp and I'm thinking about what cake to make for tea. The hubby and girlie are about to head off on bikes to collect the bits girlie left at friends last night, and I might go mada and take the bike out after they get back (need to get my own bike one of these days so we can go together). Am going to do a bit of online shopping too for Christmaas gifts for the girlie too.

RS, glad your sister's visit is going well.
Thumbscrew, hope you come to some sort of solution about your boundary, neighboour issues are so stressful, aren't they.

One of my neighbours cut down our hedge (at least 4 m high) to about 2m, which I didn't like as I could see his house (he maintained he had no light, which I am sure was true), then the side of his house fell off!! Hee hee. I think the hedge had protected the very old mortar from the wind and rain. I did enjoy that. (Although I would prefer just to have the hedge back.)

They've gone. I can come out of teh priest hole. Have a night out at a pub quiz ( replacing someone who is not well on a regular team) to lift my spirits next.

It wan;t the worst of visits.
scores look something like.

number of dinners spilt on floor= 1 ( DS, but I think MiL bumped into him while he was carrying it).
MiL flounces over trivia =1
Dh saying quietly to me " leave it" in warning tone of voice =1
Number of conversations on repeat= 3
Number of waking hours I managed to hide and avoid them all = about 4
Number of times I refused MiL offer of help in kitchen =3
Subsequently number of crockery items broken =0

It really is like having another child in the house. FiL has patience of a saint. I think DH has inherited it from him thankfully.

How do you pick music to please someone who won't tell you what they like to listen to, can't remember the artist OR title of any song they have ever liked and won't admit to liking any of the varied things you pull down from spotify to try them with.

I just composed a long post responding to everyone's posts, but the 'pooter has swallowed it. Harrumph.

So commiserations to Thumb and Unis and to everyone else.

Would anyone like a glass of Bolly? We were stuck in a traffic jam outside Oddbins last night and I noticed that Bolly is £29 a bottle. Which got me wondering about the value of the Bolly that's been consumed in the tea room since it opened .... roughly equivalent to the national debt, I fear!

Uni, why were you trying to choose music for them?????

MadBad, have you looked in the distressed chinz sofa (didn't it used to be leather??? ), Anyway, I think you'll find a little nest containing quite few pound coins in there, as well as several hairclips, a couple of keyrings and a few small plastic toys.

I was in a restaurant today and saw Bolly on the wine list... was SO tempted

I was in a restaurant today and saw Bolly on the wine list... was SO tempted

Sorry for double post, got an error msg so thought it hadn't gone on...

You're quite right, Racingsnake. We now have enough for another bottle of Bolly (and the makings of a bring and buy sale). Being a sofa of requirement, the sofa did miraculously become black leather when we were an 80s-style music lounge, but seems to have reverted to distressed chintz more recently.

Good idea about the sponsorship, Mary but I'd be slighty worried that MN might enter a sponsorship deal with another purveyor of alcoholic beverages and we might have to become very coy, like Blue Peter presenters referring to ball point pens and sticky tape because they can't say biro and sellotape. And then there's the other worry that the good people at Bollinger may not want to be associated with middle-aged women who model themselves on Patsy in Ab Fab and pass every evening in a champagne-fuelled stupor fantasising about Daniel Craig. Oh, sorry, that's just me.

So, would anyone like a glass of Evian Bolly?

You're quite right, Racingsnake. We now have enough for another bottle of Bolly (and the makings of a bring and buy sale). Being a sofa of requirement, the sofa did miraculously become black leather when we were an 80s-style music lounge, but seems to have reverted to distressed chintz more recently.

Good idea about the sponsorship, Mary but I'd be slighty worried that MN might enter a sponsorship deal with another purveyor of alcoholic beverages and we might have to become very coy, like Blue Peter presenters referring to ball point pens and sticky tape because they can't say biro and sellotape. And then there's the other worry that the good people at Bollinger may not want to be associated with middle-aged women who model themselves on Patsy in Ab Fab and pass every evening in a champagne-fuelled stupor fantasising about Daniel Craig. Oh, sorry, that's just me.

So, would anyone like a glass of Evian Bolly?

Eek! the curse of the double post.

MadBad, it's not just you

Anyone want two cups of tea/coffee and two rounds of toast to go with the double-posting phenomenon?

I would do, but I'm in 2 minds

Double shot coffee would be fab.

Busy weekend in the CMOT household - we had visitors on Friday/Saturday nights. DS and his best beloved friend went riding on Saturday morning, then ran round in softplay for hours. Friend and I had a good chat, which was nice as she has been a bit distant lately. Sunday, they went early, Dh went to watch the NFL game, and DS and I went to play with his nursery friend. And her ponies (v small and hairy Shetlands). Both children were bouncing up and down in excitement about the joy of being together - she is an only too, and it was the first time she had had a friend to visit

I am trying to work out 8 days of clothes, ranging from long haul travel to v v v smart, and when my feet will have imploded.

My mother is getting more vague. She decided to order me a book, and three copies arrived - seems she forgot that she had done it . The morphine is helping her back pain, but I think is not helping other matters