Tea Room the Twelfth

[RacingSnake]

Come in, come in, to Tea Room the Twelfth! We now inhabit a rambling log cabin, surrounded by mysterious pine forests and mist-covered mountains (but also, strangely) easily accessible by regulars, new-comers and passing bishops, ferried in by Mellors driving the troika. All the usual rules apply and all are welcome!

Good to see you again, Mary.

Yay! for the Commitments! One of my favourite films and CDs.

I hate that thing where you put something in your diary and hear nothing more. But, just as much, I also hate it when you make a firm commitment (geddit) to meet someone in a few days' time and then they text you every 12 hours to make sure you're still planning to go. Well, yes, obviously, or else I would have let you know. I blame mobile phones for creating this atmosphere of existential insecurity - nothing is real until you've exchanged a trillion texts about it.

SC - no one texts me or rings my mobile to make sure its still on - most people have learned by now that I switch my mobile on when I want to use it. The rest of the time its usually off, at home or flat...

TW - I'm used to being 'on the edge' - we have a King sized bed. It apparently means I am allowed a piece the width of my shoulders (which arent' very wide) - so if I want to turn over I have to wake up and shuffle. Oh - and even some of that gets taken sometimes so if I'm on my back I have to tuck my outside hand underneath or it falls out... or I wake up in my bit with part of dh on top of me... I suppose Mistlechick's just taking after his father really! The other night I even woke up as I was being rolled against, sat up, leaned over dh and worked out how much bed there was on the other side of him to see if I'd be more comfortable over there!

Homemade soup (leek and potato) and roll anyone?

Yes please for leek and potato soup, with a large shot of something to steady my nerves. Just been to the hospital with ds to have his eyes looked at by the specialists, and they confirm he has indeed got keratoconus by the look of it and will need specialist lenses/possible future surgery. Urk.

Has he had problems with it for a while Amber ? I used to live with someone who had keratoconus, and had had a corneal transplant in one eye, and a special lens in the other

He's had problems only the last few months, very suddenly, which is why the optician pressed the Send To Hospital button. Not handy for his rugby, where he's trying to guess whether he's tackling the player, the ref or one of the parents

Oh, crikey, Amber. That doesn't sound like fun for the Fine Lad. Or you. But the Moorfields website (I had to google) does say that the condition is manageable.

(Am in priests hole). Can someone pass down copious quantities of alcohol. It appears someone I trusted has let me down badly.

Am not in a hallelujah mood anymore

Sorry to hear that. Do you want to unload Mary???

Do you want to talk about it Mary ? Or just wrap yourself in this duvet while I rub your feet ?

thanks, some TLC would be good. May step away from the PC and have some RL alcohol, but not too much as DH is away tonight

Crying, this really hurts

Sorry Mary... its a pity our tearoom isn't in RL somewhere too so we could give actual physical support at times.

oh dear Mary, so for you! It is a horrible feeling, that loss of trust - makes one doubt so much, I find.

amber, I know someone who has that condition and controls it with special contact lenses and annual trips to Moorfields; she seems to cope pretty well with it - she is a teacher.

Am having my own downer today - just got an email back from the Health Professions Council telling me that yet again my renewal form has failed to arrive (gee thanks Royal Mail, you bastards!) and I am therefore no longer on my professional register. Last time, I made the effort to get re-registered - this time, not gonna. Costs more than it's worth and I get the feeling that someone/thing is trying to tell me it's time to let go and move on. The thing is though that I have been on that register for 20 years - it is part of who I am - and now it's gone and with it, potentially, the ability to re-enter that profession with any ease. Ah well, Just got to get over it. I am so pissed off though - I made such an effort to get that form to them from Australia, even paying extra for the damn thing to be expedited to the UK and I think it should have been signed for too - all for nothing. Grrrrr

Pass the alcohol - I'm not fussed what type.

Sorry about everyone's bad day.

Amber - eye problems are a bit of a bloody pain sympathies to you all!

thumb - grrrrr - I have experienced LOTS of stuff going missing/taking bloody ages with international post. It is great for anyone involved in the form/package/letter because no-one bothers looking for it - just blames it going missing on the other nation!

Mary - I too have been let down by someone lately and have been left very bruised shall we hold hands a bit?

We have spent tonight tidying. Milk is busy playing with all her newly discovered toys from the back of the toy cupboard.

Oh, ladies, I am sorry to hear of your problems. Would you like to take your pick from the following?

• a pictorial history of the Land Rover

• a nice, greasy lawn mower engine to strip and reassemble (it'll soon be time to move to new premises, where we might have a lawn or even a ha-ha)

• a shoulder massage

• a foot rub

• a gin and tonic (with only a smidge of tonic)

• a very large Bolly?

shoulder massage and very large Bolly for me please! I saw my osteopath today for the first time in months and my back is really feeling the effects... easy there with the oil, Mellors - nice and gentle, that't it... ahhhhhhhhh, that's better..

I'll have a Bolly too, please. But I've had a pretty good day.

Sympathies to those who are struggling.

The lawnmower looks fun, but probably not a good idea after alcohol.

Sorry to hear things difficult for you thumbwitch, and for you too teafortwo.

Am now wide awake and struggling

Can I interest you in a large cup of tea and some nice crispie croissants Mary? Served with or without butter and or jam/marmalade/honey...

Mistlechick up in night again, but went back to bed after just a 'go back to bed' growled semi-unconciously from me.... so not such a bad night for me. And we had a nice giggly bathtime with none of the screaming and shouting that MiL managed the night before [smug]

Will have to start thinking about the garden soon - but its all so wet and cold at the moment.

Mary - if you want to CAT me or me to CAT you we can to share our "grrrr - someone let me down" woes.

[scared of super bitch of the World the person who I have disagreed with somehow reading my MN posts emotions.]

OOh - who was that tea? intreagued!

Hurrah for a swift Mistlechick return to bed !

Any better after coffee Mary ? Feel free to CAT me if you want to offload - I'll be around online till midafternoon when I'm going to give blood

DS full of the joys of spring this morning, and buzzed off to nursery in his new bumblebee leggings. I love him in leggings, even if some are about boys in them, and the yellow stripy ones are our faves

Virtual hugs for those needing them (in a suitably proper fashion, of course), and large cups of tea/coffee.

Been to hospital, had foot x-rayed, don't need to be plastered. Good.

Thank you, don't have CAT. email is
suttonmb
at
talk talk
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Am going to have some lunch and go to bed for a couple of hours. Letting down person seems to be trying to put things right, especially when he saw I wasn't going to rant and rave at him. I'd sort of gone into shock, unable to speak.