Tea Room the Fourteenth

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Welcome to the 14th instalment of the Tea Room. It's now officially spring, and we've moved the tea room to a Gipsy caravan pulled by the tea room horses, which is making its way up the countryside in an effort to follow spring. There are of course hedgerows filled with spring flowers, Mellors the handsome gardener/driver/handyperson, the usual virtual Bishops, and the assorted animals and characters from previous tea rooms. All are very welcome to join in with us parents of one (or indeed more!) for general chat and the occasional very odd conversation. Climb aboard, grab a cuppa, enjoy the view, relax!...

nope, I can't do it either. sorry.

ummmm, carrot cake... I'll just shoo teh NMBS off this bit tho. little horrors are swarming all over it looking for carrots to ride.

Oh well. I have copied it with prtsc, pasted into word and enlarged it, but it is a bit blurry. They may accept it. Off to see fish tomorrow!

Bonne nuit, all!

Hi guys, I´m stuck in Spain! All airspace over the uk and Ireland is down, I can´t get home! Hope you are all well. I´m off to bed now. Take care.

Eek, AandO! Have you got somewhere to stay? Hope you're not having to kip on the airport floor. What an adventure.

Good night all. I'm going to bed with a good book.

Sorry, RS - got here too late to be any use and the link doesn't work (now? for me? not sure which) - did you try right clicking on the pic and Save picture as... ? That's what I would have done, saved it and then imported it into a Word document. Might help for next time.

A&O - double eek! hope you manage to get home tomorrow ok. Why is the airspace closed, is it all foggy or something?

UniS - Yay! your own house! what fun (despite sudden massive debt) It must feel nice to know it's your own to do what you like with, hey?

Oooh, Spain! Whereabouts? I lived in Spain for a while, in Cordoba. Dust cloud has reminded me of the inadvisability of Spring cleaning.

UniS - fantastic - your own house to alter, redecorate, extend, worry about the chimney and black furry thing on the ceiling ... Am waiting for my invitation to the tea room house warming.

Thanks to people who tried the voucher for me. Thought I was just being particularly stupid. Obviously this site provides unprintable vouchers. I tried your suggestion, Thumb, but it said, 'This function is disabled'.

Notice it is a lovely morning; the sun is rising looking extra beautiful due to Icelandic dust, wreaths of mist are swirling around the hooves of Earl Grey and the bishops' bison, the NMBs are collecting firewood and Mellors seems to be knocking up some drop scones for breakfast.

Morning all. Out at quite an interesting conference yesterday (continuing professional development...) then had a village meeting in the evening... major housing proposal on the adjoining greenfield site causing lots of angst... I say village - it feels like one to some extent, although we're actually really the last suburb before the countryside around a smallish city. not having to do the school run means I can leave for work early (and go home early) and my drive to work took 13mins from drive to car park! SO much easier!!!

DMC - have you tried dried apricots? You can get unsulphered ones from Suma stockists (they look brown, but taste delicious) - mistlechick was happy to eat them - although we tended to have the opposite issue, although I didn't really worry too much about it....

He's having a ball this week at my parents' - I get an update after supper every evening - yesterday it was full of discussion about the cloud of ash and that it was dangerous to planes - I reassured him that all the airports were closed so that planes were not going to fly through it - he relayed this to my mother and sounded quite relieved! And he is apparently behaving impecably (at least, for him!). I do SO hope that he's really turned the corner!!!!

A&O - I hope you've got somewhere OK to stay - heard on the radio that everything is to be closed until at least 7pm - I don't know but is everything moving southwards and therefore Spain might be affected next? I hope its dispersed a lot so that you get home soon.

Here are some carrots and a bucket of tea for A&O as emergency supplies...

Sorry, fell asleep under the horse blanket.

Can't talk about it - tis confidential, but thank you all

Hello Amber

Have a carrot! How about a nice galvanised bucket of tea?

Ooo I've never had galvanised tea before. Yes please. And the carrot is much appreciatd too.

Hooray for Person X who has rescued the situation for me, but now I have a thumping headache and can't talk without scrambling my worms.

Glad someone has sorted it for you Amber.

We are now builder free ! Hurrah !

DH just called me from John Lewis on Oxford Street. Am somewhat worried, as he announced that since he had now dropped off his files with the auditors (5 large lever arch files - he doesn't trust them to a courier, so took them in himself) he has a large, empty bag and is in the mood to shop. Heaven only knows what he will come back with

Boy has a school place, at last. Dev on seem to be one of teh latest counties to tell people.
hes going to teh village school.

Hurrah for sorted ( slightly) Amber. do you have a nice calm weekend to look forward to.

We have keys to our new house, spent today measuring, cleaning carpets, mowing grass and getting the bits to do the urgent electrical repairs and paint the kitchen wall.

Moving total so far-
2 unicycles, a few of boys toys, lawn mower, one of my toolboxes.
Borrowing a trailer tomorrow to move some gardeny stuff. People moving out have left 2 VERY large wardrobes A gun cabinet and a pair of knackered old office type desks. HO hum, we shall have to do a tip run with the desks, but it looks like boy can have a wardrobe AND we can put teh other in the spare room.

oh dear CMOT... is your Dh a good shopper or an erratic one? Do tell what he arrived home with.

We want pictures, UniS!

Back from SeaLife Centre. Wriggle had a great time with friend, although I think that she would have enjoyed herself as much in the park combined with a visit to the local (fantastic) aquarium shop. And they wouldn't charge £17.95 entrance each!!!!!! The important thing was the company, as, indeed, it always is.

only took one picture today and that was of a digger bucket and great clods of earth where a playground used to be, the rec is having a new playground installed.

Hey all, seems like everyones busy busy.....remember to leave time for tea!!!

We had grandma and auntie round today to play with little kitten....hoping that much running about with auntie combined with no afternoon nap means she'll be off to sleep before we know it. Which is fine because then I can send Mr Kitten to the chinese takeaway with orders for malaysian satay mushrooms, fried rice, portion of chips and some magners. Classy, but necessary.

Had an odd morning, met up with a real blast from the past (accidentally, natch) which was a little strange but very welcome! All in combination with a seemingly inexhaustable toddler has meant I'm too lazy tired to consider cooking tea!!

I fully expect to be banned from the tea room as I have just made ... gravy with Bisto granules. Rather strange and salty, so added some juice from the cabbage and half a glass of wine. Obviously I normally make my own stock by roasting bones in the AGA ...

Speaking of bones, did anyone else watch Museum of Life last night and have nightmares?

V exciting UniS - nice to have a bit of overlap so you can get the cleaning etc done without your stuff in the house.

DH decided to come home empty handed in the end - he spent time looking for shorts for DS, and failed.

Off to collect our takeaway in a minute. DS and I walked to the libary this evening - well, he started cycling but I ended up at times carrying him, the bike, and the books. My feet hurt !

I always use Bisto Best granules for gravy

I knew there was something I meant to watch last night. DH bought me the book about the NH museum for Christmas (and I think that inspired the series), and it is really good

DONT watch last night's episode!

Just popping in for quick hello. Am still in Spain. Hopefully will be home on Sunday 10pm. Spent all day trying to rearrange things. Can´t even get through to the airline! I´m in the same hotel as for conference, will get a night train to madrid tomorrow and then hope to catch a flight sun night if they are up and running still. Rerouting myself so that I don´t have to return via heathrow, which was the way I came. It is all very costly and stressful, and I´m Very upset to be away from littleO so very long.

Hope you guys are all well, no time to read over missed posts. Take care.

Why, was it scary? Or gross?

Three cheers for the new UniHome and apologies for not saying so before.

These takeaways sound very enticing. I miss our Friday night Indian takeaways - we got out of the habit once TrowelGirl arrived, as she used to refuse to feed on a Saturday morning, when (I guess) she was being offered Milk Jalfrezi.

The latter, I think. I read your post as offering three chairs to UniS, which seemed most generous.

One of the disadvatages of living where we do is that it is a long drive to get a takeaway ... Milk Jalfrezi sounds rather good; to accompnay Twiglet Suprise?

WOW!!!!

Congratulations on your new home UniS!!!!

AandO - eeeeek! About being stuck in Spain. Good luck with the organisation of getting back!

There are lots of people stuck in Paris too. The city is filled with people looking shell-shocked at still being here when they should be in sunnier climates enjoying their hols (school holidays started yesterday which usually = mass exist from Paris) while others are stuck visiting Paris and should be back home by now.

One of my email accounts had been spammed and was sending out rude emails to people including to some of the Bishops I think

Arrghh! Half a day of my weekend gone already.
Still, it's sunny...and there's no planes, which is quiet.