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!...

ummmmm, pizza. Unis drools unappealing at the thought of pizza.

Soft peach turns out to be exactly the same colour as the kitchen was before, only it looks a bit fresher and cleaner now with a new coat on. DH is over there now finishing of the first coat. I may or may not have to do a 2nd coat tomorrow.

Hiya scout,sterry and any one els new I havn;t waved at yet.

I ought to get off MN and go work out how to fit the living room furniture ina small living room, we have had a combined living/ dining room or a vast living room for years, this new house has small living room, seperate dining room,a kitchen diner & conservatory. so some rejigging is needed.

BUM, have just been offered MORE work on Thursday, can;t do hardly any as have a dentist apt in middle of the day. only time I could get, I have broken a tooth.

Rough afternoon with the Young One, so can't face cooking dinner.

Thanks CMOT - that hit the spot!

Does anyone know where the bishops are this evening?

Sorry to hear you've had a rough afternoon Scout - I had an evening of repeating the parents' mantra 'This too shall pass'on Sunday.

I have forgotten what you line of work is UniS - I hope that you get some more conveniently timed work soon.

self employed Donk, so what ever comes my way that I'm willing to do! Mostly of an electrical equipment mending or tending nature these days.

Small Donk is busy howling in his stable bedroom - he wants another story.

I am trying to be patient and just be calmly immovable.

Apparently he "will never get to sleep without another story"

Tis trying!

It's one of my many oddities that I hate coffee - never touch the stuff, but love coffee cake. So thank you, Scout. And welcome.

Ah, yes, the mantra of "this too will pass". How I used to rely on it during the toddler phase.

Would anyone like more Bolly, tea, Twiglet and Carrot Surprise?

I think the bishops are still on a bender, after the consecration of the new bishop of Peterborough!

Talking of bishops' benders, there is a cocktail named that:

brandy
cointreau
southern comfort
orange juice

with lots of ice in a tall glass - can recommend it! Yum! Anyone fancy a tipple or two?

Now we're talking! Cocktails! Yes please to a Bishop's Bender.

I am relieved to hear that the Bishops are in Peterborough - they can't try and harness me to the caravan again!

I think I will make a bucket of hot chocolate with brandy to help me to sleep. Anyone else want one?

How old is Small Donkey?

I have had a lovely birthday, being made a fuss of by every one, got lots of reports written in the sun because Wriggle was tormenting playing with her favourite aunt and am now relaxing.

Ohhh, yes please to the hot chocolate!

Don't worry, Trowel, I don't like coffee, either. But I like the smell of it. The coffee flavored cake is, apparently, scrummy. I bake it, I don't eat it!

Can I repeat the mantra with a baby, too?

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Oh , Racing. I knew it was your birthday soon, but I didn't know it was today. Here's some bunting. How is your beautiful aquarium? Did you receive some wonderful from Elliptical Wriggle's craft afternoon with MonsieurSerpent?

Tell more about your baby, Scout. Age? Gender? And about yourself. What's the origin of your MN name?

Donki's hot chocolate sounds delicious. May I have some once I've finished my Bishop's Bender?

Happy birthday, Racing!

Trowel, BabyScout is my 5.5 month old son. We had a day of "BabyScout, Mommy loves you but she just doesn't understand what you want/need." So lots of kisses, cuddles, singing silly songs and swaying. sigh. How about you?

Donki, may I have another hot chocolate with an extra shot in it?

ummm, coffee cake.... unis continues to drool. don;t mind me will you.

Small donkey is 7 now. I can't believe how the time has flown.

Here is a Very Large Bucket of Hot Chocolate with Brandy - help yourselves!

HAppy Birthday dear RAcing!!!

Love the Trowel bunting!

That's much better!

Welcome Scout, and Sterry and others, has LittleMissDrivingCrazy hung on with the tea room or gone away?

Tea, lovely to see you dear

I have nothing much to report, so am just sending the love vibe on round the caravan and doing a slurp/ pass/ nibble/ pass with all the drinks and food going on

Thank you, Oxeye. I think the is a nice touch and so fitting for a tea room!

totally, although I have never known us ot have "no comment" just boobs and biscuits

Happy Birthday for yesterday, Racing! Glad it was lovely, about time!

MrThumb has gone away for a trade show for two nights and three days now - last night at 10 to 10, some plank work colleague rang to tell him that he would have to stay Thursday night as well but he isn't going to because he has an early appt up this way Friday morning and he'd never get back in time for it. How wrong is that, though - 12 hours notice that you'll be away from your family for another night?! Or perhaps I'm just naive and shouldn't complain anyway, given people like A&O's situation.

hello, no, I'm still here, lurking in the shade at the back of the caravan...just been busy, what with laying a lawn (finally) in the back garden and getting various seeds planted and potted. We've also just got a new allotment (within plodding distance of home), so am hoping that the enterprising man who offered to rotavate it for €20 (it wasn't Mellors, was it?) has been as good as his word. So potatoes and onions and carrots and beets and turnips all to go up there.

And that's in addition to attempting to move all my incredibly esoteric and boring work books from the study to C's room, pending imminent move of C to former study. We figure that she doesn't need a big room for a few years yet, and given that we are not having another (was having a sulk about this yet again) we may as well use it - DP is writing, I am supposed to be finishing various books/articles, and we have nowhere for guests to stay. So it makes sense.

I'm supposed to be going to London on Thursday (my mother's birthday tomorrow) if I can manage to get off the island and dodge the ash particles. Sometimes you really realise that you live on an island (imminent banana shortage, for example )

anyway, must go and strap C into car and go and do things - footling about mostly. Work later

hello to all - it's hard to keep up with the banter, but it's all very entertaining!

Morning all - rehearsal weekend, so no computer - and now laptop's broken....

CMot - if you're at the parental home this weekend, playing in a concert nearby.... Same goes for Amber really - rather a nic eprogramme inc a harpist and Vaughn Williams, Brahms etc. The Schostakovitch is a bit of a surprise in the mix - but its over quite quickly

Unis - new home sounds great - and I notied that you moved the important stuff in first!!! My first home I got there on the Friday with furnture arriving later and found out that the dining room had awful marks where the many various pictures had been removed - had to go out and get paint so that my father could help to get the shelving unit attached to the wall the following day - painted until 11.30 that night and started again at 6.30 so that it had a chance to dry...

Have now worked out why its so difficult to seal the shower effectively - its one of the plastic basis - doesn't move too much, just a little. Trouble is, that the tiler tiled over the edge of the base on two sides... theoretically good idea, except that it means that the tiles move slightly for the bottom row on two sides... so that its really difficult to get the shower door (that sticks, so moves the seal each time you open it anyway) fixed on properly.....

Mary - its me with a new car sometime this week (company) so I hope that I don't follow your lead.

Nice to see some new faces... and Oxeye - was the name change in response to anything or just because you wanted a change - and what are you going to call *boy now?

FFS - my own crappy laptop has just crashed and burned! I was on the "woo" thread, just posted and it seized, restarted itself and the fecking thing has corrupted a major start up file.

At least we'll get the good laptop back tomorrow, so I'll be able to put mine in for repair - hopefully at less cost!

NOT happy. Very actually.

We're away at the weekend for one of our Wild Breaks. I shall leave it to your fevered imaginations to discern what sort of wildness .

New car, MT? Dare we ask?

Donki, I am SO sorry for the behaviour of the Bishops. I do try to herd them, but they are rather wayward. I shall pin up a notice to the effect of "No Tying the Donki to the Caravan, by Order of the Aspie".

Arrgh re the computer, TW!

Racing, happy Birthday for yesterday

DMC, yup, we've got our fruit veg in place as well. Should do alright for potatoes, onions, runners, peas, strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, rhubarb, apples, cucumbers, tomatoes, marrows and gooseberries (not necessarily in that order).