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!

Cowslips perhaps ?

Well out of being class rep I think Tea. She really does sound foul

No, definitely not cowslips (although I have nothing against cowslips). The word for which I was groping was primula. Candelabra primulas are very lovely things.

How're you doin'?

Ah, yes. I was thinking of the way cowslips hang as candelabra.

I am stiff and bruised after riding this morning. My trotting is improving no end, but my varicosities don't seem to be getting the idea that they should just bog off and stop leaking every time. And I am not used to doing this much exercise.

We have been cleaning this afternoon. It was v boring, but enlivened by DS using all the sofa cushions (removed to deal with the detritus below) as lilypads..

And you ?

still here, good oh. leave us a trail of seed catalogues when you go would you. I shalln't be about tomorrow ( working) hope to pop by monday and then have relatives staying tues till fri with huge numbers of children who go to bed late. so can;t see myself getting on MN at all.

So far I've managed to borrow 2 pairs waterproof trews and 6 ish pairs of wellies, so should be able to keep relatives feet dry and teh littlest ones wind proofed up on teh hills.

Just need to borrow and air bed that doesn;t leek, checked the one we had today and it won;t hold air for an hour, never mind over night.

Sympathy to tea over the snobby mama from hell.

WHY are bubble baths suposed to be relaxing? I now have dry skin and it was horrid having bubbles sliding about behind me cackling in my ear. Must remember to stick to bath bombs/ melts etc and not get sucked into having Matey. Tho, I was using boys bath water, topped up with hot...

See you in teh oragnery.

Yes, do indicate where we have got to. I have no longer got wireless internet, just a very short lead to the modelm in a very cold room not near enough to where WRiggle is sleeping or DH is coughing, so only brief visits from now on.

Lots of sympathy to Tea; still not sure if HorridMum is French but suppose she must be, if dd was speaking in French to Milk. Not that it makes any difference; just DH says French aren't class conscious like what we are. Mind, while we are away from France, everything there is perfect ... The reason the first parcel didn't get there is that I forgot to write the number, just the street name . Can't believe I was that stupid for parcel 2 or parcel 1 on its second journey, though ... .. I even looked at your street on Google street view to check it exists and I hadn't got is wrong somehow ...

RS - ha, MrThumb used to say that about Aussies too - complete bollox of course, they are completely class conscious but in a different way. The class structure just has a different basis - in Australia it's mostly about money.

I like the sound of the new tea room.
We went to Wisley today as my membership ends tomorrow and they have butterflies in the new glass hothouse for 6 weeks. Lovely! Although there weren't any actually fluttering around, most of them were on the feeding tables or hiding under leaves. Anyway, there were lots of snowdrops out, and a beautiful bed of deep purple hellebores; the camellias are just starting to bloom and the witch hazel is in flower. I love it there at this time and for the next 3-4 months! Once spring is over it's less interesting.

Oooh, Thumb, butterflies at Wisley? Are they there for another six weeks? Or is the six weeks nearly up? I feel a Crazyfamily outing coming on.

Racing - I suspect it is true that, as MonsieurSerpent says, the French aren't class conscious like what we are, but -half-remembering sundry novels and operas - I've always thought that they are, in their own way, very class conscious. Isn't that what the Bon chic, bon genre thing is about? (And quite a few of B~A~'s posts, come to think of it). Anyway, it seems as if Tea is well rid of the class rep role if it gets her away from HorridMum.

UniS - Quite agree about bubble bath. I used to love it, but now it makes me itch and I'd rather have posh soap.

Cmot - Would you like Mellors to rub some deep heat into your aching calves?

Well, it's a bit later than usual - I didn't realise that My Fair Lady is such a long film - but would anyone like some Veuve Clicquot?

Veuve Clicquot would go down rather well here, ta muchly - I can celebrate having completed my tax return - hurrah! Better still, they owe me money (but not much)

Stillcrazy - the butterflies are set to be there until 28th February but when we went just after they'd finished last year there were still a few rogue ones left! (They must have been hatchlings whose cocoons hadn't been found and placed in the emerging cage). It was very busy there today - too many people by far but what can you do? It was a sunny (but fiercely cold) day.

Butterflies at Wisley? Great! I'm not far from there - shall nip alone with my membership card.

Morning all. Went to a brilliant concert last night with an old friend of mine as lead musician. Haven't been to things musical for years - can't imagine why not.

Teas? Coffees?

Back in priest's hole. Tea and sympathy please. Nothing's happened as such, but its bloody hard having to pretend nothing is wrong when your heart is breaking - seeing a happy occasion for a happy child, and knowing how much of a bloody battle it is when you have a SN child.

Mary - Does music work for you? Here's an iPod loaded with music and talking books. And a fresh pot of tea.

RS - I think Paris isn't France like London isn't England. In my experience in Paris people are more class aware than in my hometown but don't define what they're pointing at as class it took a whole 15 minutes for the Mother who first explained that horridmum is a snob to tell me what it would take one sentence to say in Blighty IYSWIM...

LOL at you looking at my truck because I am really a trucker called Dave place on google Earth!

Did you like the nude posters flower pots on the window sill?

MARY - EEEEEeeeeek...

Sorry - I somehow didn't read your post...

... I always find a pot of very good tea and a good BBC costume drama cheers me up at moments like this...

lowers a particularly good costume drama into the priest's hole...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hasKmDr1yrA

Any help???

Lowers down a top up to the priest hole...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgkS5_PTfZQ&NR=1

!!!

• I must go and do wome work now... ug ug ug!!!

wome some

[Eccles 'helping' emotion]

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Y our new tea room awaits

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