Tea Room the Thirteenth

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Welcome to the newest instalment of the One Parent Families tea room. As it's heading for spring, we're now in a nice warm orangery surrounded by woodland filled with spring flowers. All are very welcome to join in with us parents of one (or indeed more!), the tea room gardener/handyman Mellors, various virtual Bishops (don't ask) and a variety of other characters from previous tea rooms. Grab a cuppa, relax!...

Ah, maybe that's what woke me up, hey Tea!

Mary, glad appt went well and you have got a good counsellor there, by the sounds of it. Hope you manage to get something out of it.

Conference goes on the whole weekend. Tomorrow, felt-making, clay, sand, collages and a right old party. Definitely my sort of event. Though I'm getting some very hard stares from my helper, who seems to think I should be resting from time to time. Hmm. Probably right, too.

A new job, MT??

I did hear a bit of eeking, but it might have been us lot doing the singing practice here...

So much good news here! MistleMan's job, Mary's positive CBT meeting, Milk's mouse costume, Amber's making hay felt with the bishops! Yay, it's the weekend!

Cmot - I had forgotten that you'd been a Guider. Tell me more!

And did someone mention Bolly?

The Bishops are not making felt, hay or anything creative in the crafts line, alas for themj. They're on a separate course but in the same conference centre

But if they're good, we might let them have a play in the sand pit.

Morning all. Teas? Coffees? Bacon sarnie?

Just popping in before I go to see my parents with DS - DH is staying at home to revise for his upcoming exams.

Plastic budgie is having a fun time in our house. I still can't work out why it was so important to him, but ho hum.

I was in guides from being a teeny brownie, guide, young leader, then after uni was a guider until I took this job, and can't commit to anything. My mum was similarly - brownie, guide, sea ranger, brown owl - cept she was a brown owl until she retired from work !

You've disappointed me, Amber. I was enjoying the vision of the bishops at an embroider-your-own-chasuble workshop.

Tea, hot chocolate, croissants and crumpets are now available on the aga. Tuck in!

Unis runs in, stuffs self with chocolate and buns. has a quick play in teh sand pit and rushes out again. Argggggggggh.

am just slightlky stressed.

I'm not having them let loose with a needle and thread . Who knows where it would end up!!

Aw! I'd heard they were busy making one of these!

Hello you lot. It's be an age since I was here; real life has been a bit crazy just recently and I have had to have a no MN rule to be able to get through my "to do" list every day. But hey ho, today Kittenito and Mr. H have gone on "un día de campo" (a day in the country) to a local beauty spot in the hills. This means I have done my Saturday chores in record time, and have Gatita taking a (very rare, but very welcome) mamoth morning nap.

There are lots of new names here. Hello. I'm not so new, just persistly absent. I hope you are enjoying yourself with the tearoomers.

Just in case I am not around again for a while, I shall just let you know that the trip to the UK went well, if we ignore the nightmare that was the journey there and back. Mexicana do not provide travel cots at all. So I carried G all the way there and back. Plus the journey back took 3 days, since once I arrived in London from Manchester I was told the Mexico flight was cancelled.We went the next day, but as two passangers got lost between checkin and boarding, we left two hours late (two hours on the plane waiting!). So we arrived in Mexico City too late for my connecting flight. We had yet another stopover and arrived finally on Tuesday 2 March.

Since then work has been mental and threatens to be so until after Easter.

I am sending you all lots of love and Mexican waves. I gather Mary's boy is having problems at Cubs and Mistlehusband has reason to celebrate. My sympathy and moral support to Mary and congrats to MH.

Hope to see you all very soon.

Oooh. I forgot. Mr. Hatita is now nationally famous for his appearence on Mexican tv.

He's the chubby one with the blue tie.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usg8ajH7g00&feature=channel

Catita now cannot leave the tearoom due to the fact that her head is now too big for the door.

That's cool Catitainahatita!

Can someone tell me what/whether I should do to rescue this? DH didn't book a restaurant for Mother's day, so the kids were going to cook. He has gone to Tesco today, and bought a luxury ready meal FOR TWO, and not only that, its one the kids won't enjoy. They don't know yet. Its mother's day not valentine's day! Part of me feels guilty for being mad at him, especially as he has also bought me flowers, but surely he should have at least thought of the kids, and taken them to buy the flowers? Argh! Help?

Wow! I have no idea what Mr Hatita is saying (my Spanish is limited to "este Ramon acqui" which I learnt from Starsky and Hutch in the 70s so have probably not even remembered properly) but does this mean that he is Mexico's Simon Schama?

Mary - That's tricky. Are you supposed to know about any of this? Or has the meal been stashed in the fridge where you (supposedly) can't see it? I think somehow you have to manoeuvre dh down to Tesco to buy another meal for the children. Or do you have something in the freezer which they would like? Oh dear, that's just stating the obvious, isn't it? Haven't helped much.

Would a Bolly and plateful of twiglet surprise help?

No, its OK that I know about it, and he's not bought a luxury meal for 2, he's bought 2 luxury meals for 4... only I don't think the kids'll like either of the luxury meals, but as there's 2 types, I guess we could give it a go they could try some of each... but I'm not holding my breath...

Hmm. Could you hide one meal in the freezer save one for another occasion and still get a third option which the children would like? Or sabotage the oven and go the pub for a pub lunch?

It's Mother´s Day tomorrow in the UK????????

OH CRAP. I'm off to the interflora website to see if it´s too late to order.

TandE Mr. H is talking about the independence movement in Mexico (this year is the 200th anniversary). He's not quite Simon Schama, but his students do now think he is cool.

Yes, Catita it is. Does Mexico have a Mother's Day? If it is too late to order online now, could you delay sending something until then - you'll get twice as much for your money! Or would that be hopelessly unpolitic?

hellooooo

yep cat its mothers day tomorrow. Mr Cat is quite cute in a chubby historian kinda way.

We are now MiL less at chez uni as her mother has been taken ill and she and FiL had to whiz off and deal with emergency.
Boy is all birthday partied up, he and 6 little friends had a fab time at soft play. tractor cake was a hit - Thanks MiL- squash was consumed, parents had tea/ hot choc and the bill was under 40 quid. fantastic.

I am handing over all responsibility for boy to DH tomorrow. I know there will be no lovingly paste covered M-day card as boy has not been forced to make one by either preschool and Dh don;t do that kind of thing. there will be a present- coz I amazoned it myself the other week.

It is NOT Mother's Day here in Oz but I insisted that it should still be observed this year as MrThumb had 2 Father's Days last year

Consequently we went out yesterday and bought my present (a set of tuned wind chimes, they sound fab) and this morning I have a card! I'm pretty amazed MrT found an appropriate one, tbh, as it's not Mother's Day until June sometime here - but he did! Kudos to him.

Catita, welcome back! Glad to see you survived the journey, you win on the hellish return, definitely! You do know T&E, btw. She's a loon

UniS - sorry to hear that your MIL's mum is ill - lucky Boy to have a GGM! I had 2 up until I was 7 (they died within a year of each other). Glad the birthday celebrations went well.

boy has 3 GGMs !!! very lucky boy. only one of they had lost her marbles before boy was born. the other 2 have met and enjoyed boys company, tho hes a bit vague about who they are.

Hello all you lovlies, particularly Catita. I am more than a little in love with Mr Hat. What a cuddly cutey! I can see why you stayed

Mary it's so hard about the Luxury Meal Pressure isn't it? I would just cook and go. What mattesr is you are all eating together. You can always bung on a few sausages/ pasta too?

I shall have a card (DaisyBoy has already shown me because he is very excited) Rumour has it (or DaisyBoy might have mentioned this too) I am having a surprise cake I suspect neither boy will think I might like tea in bed. Then I have to go off to a meeting bloody good timing eh?

I am thrilled about work, Mistle, loving the Sand Pit Playing bishops images from Amber and feeling some sort of Owl Envy with Trowel and CMOT

Good to see you Tea, it's been a while!

Arrr... daisy... you noticed my reduced mning... !!! You are very sweet.

Well... tbh I am really trying to mn less... it is terribly time consuming and using my time wisely in life is something I need to be a bit more careful of if I want to keep the juggling balls from tumbling.

Thank heavens, the luxury meal worked out! Kids liked the beef in chianti!

Phew! for the success of Mary's special meal. But commiserations to Daisy for having to go to a meeting on any Sunday, let alone Mothering Sunday.

I, on the other hand, spent Mothering Sunday taking my Infant Phenomenon to a dance exam. Yes, they schedule them for Sundays. Including Mothering Sunday. But I did also get breakfast in bed, a lovely hand-made card and a gardening book.

Hope everybody is having a good day, even if it isn't Mother's Day in your time zone.

Oh, and it's not Owl Envy I'm experiencing, It's Owl Awe. Between them Cmot and CmotMater have so much guiding experience - I need to download the contents of their brains, Doctor Who sci fi stylee.

And I do hope that Mr Hatita will be invited back on Mexican tv and will in due course become their Simon Schama. After all, I imagine that S S must have done lots of short contributions to other people's programmes before he started doing blockbuster series of his own.

Which reminds me to ask Jacksmama whatever happened to Michael Ignatieff, who for quite some time here was the thinking woman's eye candy. Didn't he go back to Canada to get involved in politics?