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!!

Plus a personal DVD player and a copy of Richard Hammond's engineering solutions on DVD... the one about the bridge in France is superb!

oh dear, amber - sorry to hear you're on overload again - have an old lawnmower engine to re-assemble while you're in there as well.

CMOTD - where are you off to this time? love the pony story - although until a couple of days ago I would have added "nasty little things" in my head to the end of the shetland pony bit - but MrThumb says I do it every time he mentions Shetland ponies so I am making conscious efforts not to!

Don't worry - in general I love horses and ponies but all the Shetlands I have ever met have been pocket-Hitleresque in attitude.

My what busy busy tea room people!

Amber, here, have a couple of Haynes Manuals to ease you through

Thumb good to see you back

Hugs to others (sorry, only a couple of seconds)
had a great weekend - good antidote to crapply busy week - went to seaside and got blown about. Hubby went swimming twice, confirming his Tough and Mad credentials DaisyBoy and I consoled ourselves by making sand castles and eating too much sweet stuff by way of ice cream and other seaside crap necessity food

Having a quick hot chocolate because I missed out, now popping the Bolly

UniS glad you survived rellies!!!

Howdy all. Enthused by our Theatrical Experience last week, I have bought the soundtrack to Annie Get Your Gun and am currently listening to I'm A Bad, Bad Man. Am thinking of buying myself a stetson. Or possibly some chaps.

Daisy - Is DaisyBloke one of those lunatics he-men who go swimming in the Serpentine on Christmas Day?

Thank you everyone - not very well and had too much happen at work with workmen and electricians and it was all too much. Bless dh and ds for looking after me too, though.

Dear Tea,
Thank you so much for the link to internet fun for littlies you left on another thread. Wriggle and TMIMM MonsieurSnake have been having great fun.
Any other recommendations would be great.
I have just been on ebay.fra looking for Papo figures of Kirikou and Karaba la Sourciere for Christmas. Did you ever get the Kirikou DVD out of the library? If not, you must. Wriggle loves it and acts it all the time.
Hope you enjoyed your weekend.
Racing

yo all. commiseration to the workman overloaded , those in two minds and those just cursed with dodgy typoing.

RS-why was I chosing music?? good question. It seemed better than silence I guess.

Pub quiz was good fun, I even got a few questions right. Even my guess that Edward 1st might have had 18 legitimate children if any king did. Remarkably our team of 4 mums with only 1 working TV between us scored our highest points on the entertainment round.

Now someone pass me a glass and I shall get gently sloshed on teh sofa. hicup.

kudos to UniS for getting any points in a pub quiz! Years ago when they first started and it was like Trivial Pursuit I was pretty good at it - but as time has gone by and they ask more and more obscure questions, my stash of useless trivia has become more and more useless and I am lucky to get any right these days.

Daisy - DaisyBloke sounds Terribly Macho - is he?

hiccup.

Hehe, UniS pass the Bolly!

Well, it is nice and calm in here isn't it. Yes, Thumb, DaisyBloke is quite rugged, but he's more a ski the glacier than swim the Serpentine sort of chap, MadBad....Mind you I think he'd sign up for Christmas Day to get away from my mum the family enforced jollity

Came home today to find DaisyBoy thrilled and eating supper in the dark lit by a pumpkin candle and some dayglo skeletons and bats etc. I love our nanny

That should be

And Racing is Monsieur Snake feeling better? and what has happened about your work, did I miss a post?

ooh yes, forgot about your school situation RS - what happened?

Daisy - your nanny sounds fab! We have seen Hallowe'en stuff here in Oz but it's quite unobtrusive in comparison with the UK - and the plastic "treat" pumpkins are only about 5" in diameter, not bloody great buckets like I saw last year in Tesco. i really should get a pumpkin and do a carvey thing though - miniThumb would love that! e can always have pumpkin soup or something to go with it - shame to waste the whole thing

Bonsoir tout le monde.

I don't think I've ever done a quiz in a pub but I am MadBadBloke is ridiculously competitive and so when we take part in quizzes it's with the aim of winning. None of that "it's not the winning it's the taking part" mullarkey. Mind you, when we took part in the PTA quiz we totally whooped ass. [tongue in cheek emoticon]

DaisyBoy's lantern-lit supper does sound thrilling.

And yes, Racing, what news of your job?

ha ha, yes, we're going to pumpkin carve later in the week, but I don't want it going off before Saturday when it needs to be out on the street for all the local hooligans kids to come and visit!

Our street gets a bit mad with everyone ending up wandering about with glasses of wine in and out of the houses - leaving the kids to go to bed!!!

Good morning all. One of the wonderful things about the tea room is that no-one ever wakes up with a headache no matter how much bolly one has drunk late one was working.

Than you for kind enquiries about job. Finally sorted itself out perfectly amicably; my working hours stay the same; I just have to spend all day Wednesday with the Most Challenging Class In The School, instead of singing 'The Animals Went In Two By Two' with Year One. Oh well.

Don't quite know why we couldn't have started at this point - I think Head was attempting to flex her muscles. I have learnt the value of fighting back and at last made some use of my union membership.

DH was better and is now suffering from some kind of stomach upset, the main symptom of which seems to be increased grumpiness. Oh well.

Wriggle woke me this morning with lots of cuddles and kisses but now that she is fully conscious is back to 'I want Papa.' (who is of course still in bed). Yesterday I counted 1,760 'I want with Papa's and 214 'I not your friend, I Papa's friend'. I even went through the 'Parenting' section on MN to see if this is a normal phase, but no mention. Oh well.

This morning I am hoping to have a moment to drop the Apigard into the bees, then we are out to Stourhead for the day to see the autumn colours. Half term: 9 8 7 6 days left to go!

It is a phase RS, it will change. Mum soon becomes best again, don't worry.

Coffee and cheese and bacon croissants anyone? I have some of those unbaked croissants, which I put cheese and bacon in, before rolling them up and baking them in the oven. Absolutely delicious and absolutely no calories!

Yum! Definitely need one before trying to prize them off the Bambi DVD and into the car.

Those croissants sound delish, however I have just had chicken curry for lunch so shall pass. We have a fab sandwich man who also brings lovely little pots of hot food, and his curries are yummy.

I worked from home yesterday until 3pm while gymgirlie played in the house, then she and I went to see UP 3d, which we both enjoyed. She is at the school holiday club toady, there was a full array of Halloween activities in full flow when I dropped her off, so she will be happy there until 5pm. Gymhubby is off work tomorrow and then I am off Thursday and Friday. Think we might go to the toy museum in Bethnal Green.

Sounds like a lovely week gym.

DS had a lovely day yesterday - Monday is quiet at nursery anyway, and half term meant that they had 3 staff and 5 children in his room. So they made hedgehog bread rolls, went to the farm shop to buy pumpkins, and walked to the park. The intent was that they could go on the slides and swings, but they chased squirrels and kicked leaves instead

Off to Chicago this time - so it'll be cold

Good to hear that the job has been sorted RS

I'm pleased to hear that you managed to negotiate a better deal RS at school, although your Wednesdays don't sound much fun .

We have the "Papi" preference issue here too. I often go to get Kittenito up in a morning and am rejected with anguished cries for Papi; who I might add, stays resolutely in bed and just shouts his hello from down the corridor. It's half the fact the papi does more fun stuff with him (especially at the moment) and half the fact he iin't around as much as me that is the attraction I feel.

What is going on?? Everything seems to have changed at MN without anyone informing me. And after the day I have had, I don't need it.

evening all.

House hunting tonight- in teh strangest of ways. Just had a visit ( planned and asked for) from teh chap who designed and built a house we are considering. very interesting to see exactly how it was built, photos galore. The estate agents are a little sniffy about us dealing with him direct, but I didn't want to play a game of Chinese whispers.

Boy is another of those kids who love for daddy is immense, but mummy is just a usefull person to do things for him. He howls some mornings when he finds he slept through daddy getting up and out teh door. I have resorted to phoning Dh and getting him to say "good morning boy, now go eat your breakfast please" down teh phone.

it can not be rougher than teh one I sampled at tea time. On reflection I think that may have been opened on saturday, so is only now fit for cooking.

Seems to have been my laptop which had forgotten me and asked for all my passwords again. Anyway, MN is reassuringly back to normal.

Obviously daddy preference is quite normal (if totally unfair, considering who does all the work round here for them both). I seem to remember I was just the same and it must have been incredibly hurtful to my mother, especially when my father died and I felt sorriest for myself 'because he was most special to me.'