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!...

I'll happily have a large cup of tea and a slice of toast. Didn't have a brilliant time at the docs yesterday so taking today off to recover. Anyone mind if I use the Tea Room Caravan duvet?

Amber - we've brought along the priest hole just in case - although its in the wall rather than the floor this time - and the duvet seems to have changed into a patchwork quilt - I hope that will do? Bad news or unsympathetic Dr?

Morning, hot choc sounds great, I'm not great at the food thing before 11 though!

Hope you are ok Amber .

I fed LittleO until he was 26 months, and as soon as I did I totally reverted to the old me, it was unreal! While feeding I was all I only want to be with my baby, why would a person ever want to leave the house and lets move to the middle of nowhere and live off the land type thing. As soon as I stopped I became restless, started wanting to do things just for me again. I was shocked, I had thought that motherhood itself had changed me, not breastfeeding.

I mean as soon as I stopped, not as soon as I did .

Doc who didn't know much about how to do difficult medical procedures on an aspie with sensory difficulties - huge pain etc, not good. Will be ok. Thanks for quilt and priest hole.

Hands through another brimming cup of tea and a 'wildflowers of the spring hedgerows' book so that Amber can let everyone know exactly what we're passing as we amble along...

Ooo look, a bladder campion! And if I'm not very much mistaken, a procumbent pearlwort!

Anyone who needs cheering up should read the thread 'braking point' on discussions of the day...I have literally been crying with laughter!

Off to LittleO's preschool now for coffee and cake with the kids in their pjs for charity.

Actually, for anyone who really needs to laugh until they cry I highly recommend the "Nightmare Incident with Neighbour's Parcel" thread... I have not laughed so hard since the "I looked into the garden shed and saw..." thread.

Amber... a procumbent what??? Is there really such a thing?? Mind you, flowers and birds do have pretty inexplicable names... for example, a tit mouse. Ummm... ... BTW, hope you feel better soon

AandO, how are you feeling today? Less down? Hope so. And do you know how you developed a wine allergy? How horrible... at least it seems that way to me

House of Horrors is quite interesting too... amazing what people manage. My knocking myself out falling backwards as going downstairs is very tame in comparison.

Jm for what it's worth I don't think you have a problem. Drinking wine like anything can be a habit so you think that would be nice when doing the associated thing like xooking etc. But you and Dh are fine not having wine. So I wouldn't worry.
Amber sorry your dr was hurtful. Here is a chart on which we can mark flowers seen
hugs to all others

Self employed get no help here. I managed to afford seven months mat leave. Bf until 22 months when Daisyboy just forgot one night. Used to leave expressed milk for him and race home with Exploding Boobs. Couldn't express at work. Poor daisyboy. Whatever he was doing he had to stop as i raced in and clamped him to my breast!!!!

I got knocked out at a barn dance once.

Am joining Amber in the priest's hole as I'm sad for DD being picked on by a so-called friend at school, here's hoping they'll be friends again next week.

Hahahaha at Daisy racing in and putting Daisyboy into a head lock to the breast , that's cheered me up. Feeling a bit blue today.
Realized this week I am feeling lonely. Not because I have no friends, I do, but what I am feeling is the lack of what would be called a "best friend" if we were still in kindergarten . I had one, at least I thought I did, but we broke up after JB was born. I probably told the saga so won't bother you all with details. Anyway, what I'm feeling is I need/want someone I'm on the same page with, so to speak. It's that indefinable "click" I'm looking for. Someone whom I could tell stuff I say on Mumsnet. Someone to have fun with. I realized this week that the friend I spend most of my time with is really not someone I have fun with... but our kids have a blast together. I'm sorry, that makes me sound like a cow. And she is lovely, really, kind and generous, but I feel like she doesn't really "get" me at all, and I don't "get" her. Our life experiences have been so different that we only connect superficially.
I do have a friend whom I REALLY like... and we have been spending more time together and getting to know each other. I just have to remind myself that it takes time. But meanwhile, I'm feeling a bit lonely and blue. However - also very grateful to have the Tea Room.

Hot choc, anyone? With a little Bailey's perhaps?

Oh go on then. Just a very small hot choc Baileys, perhaps. Been asleep for three hours which is SO unlike me. Must have needed it.

Yes, there really is such a flowering plant as the Procumbent Pearlwort. It's unrelated to the more common Hairy Tare, though.

Oops, threw the cider cat amongst the pigeons and disappeared - dare say the resident Brits amongst us have caught up with the budget news by now, but if not the tax on cider is going up by 10% on top of inflation. Which just seems like a completely cynical move to tax something which has become popular in recent years.

On that basis, I am going to ask our local Labour and Tory candidates to support my campaign to tax skinny jeans, jeggings, big hair, ballet pumps and 80s retro. I will vote accordingly.

Thumb - Addlestones! I remember that stuff. Rather fuzzily, admittedly, but I do remember it. Which is more than can be said of much of the detail of the evenings which followed my drinking it.

On a completely non-cider-related note, I have just noticed that one of the candles on my mantelpiece has melted in such a way as to resemble very short, squat penis.

So now we have lewd candles as well as lewd rolls?

I just hope the bishops aren't watching!

Don't worry - I've covered their eyes

Ooo, Pinot Gigglio! A glass?

Oh Daisy, you are making me laugh today. Wait until Daisyboy sees it!! In my house, JB would point at it and say "a candle pee-pee!".

He regularly points at DH's crotch and says "a daddy pee-pee". However, he points at mine and says "mummy's bits". LOL.

If a 10% tax hike makes whitelightning more expensive and teens stop glugging back 2 bottles a night... good.
Its only some strengths of cider hit that hard, lower alcohol ones are in line with beer..

ahhh, the hairy tare and other lovely hedgerow plants. I rather like the navel wort. Just for the name, the plant is so so, but it does look a bit belly button ish if you squint.

Makeing Hot cross buns tonight ( in RL) I'll rustle some up in tea room as well for you. we can toast them on camp fire and then have with lashings of butter and ginger beer.

Doesn't the ginger beer run off them?
Oh I see what you mean... yes please!

Is there still some Pinot Gigglio? Ah! Of course there is. This is the (mobile) tea room of requirement after all.

DCMB - pmsl at penis-shaped candle - what a hoot!
Addlestones - yes, lovely stuff - thankfully I didn't find that until I had got over the drinking-too-much-of-it phase - that was reserved for 1080 and Merrydown! oh the pain and shame... remembering my Uni days.. my nickname was Huey for a while.

OOh, UniS - home made HCBs - how do you do the cross then? I need to make some but haven't so far found a sensible one that tells how to do the cross properly.

Pinoit gigglio - I will join you in spirit.

JM - I do know what you mean - I miss my best friend too, even though she was really only my BF by dint of long service (since we were 4!) and she had other friends who were closer to her than I was. I am no one's best friend - but I do have a circle of 4 or 5 friends who are very close and very dear and I miss them enormously. No one here yet - the one I thought might become one was a bit offhand with me yesterday; and the girl I do get on with really well at Tuesday's play group is great but I think that we are just a bit too different in other ways. Don't know - have to wait and see there!

Someone pick up T&E and put her back in the caravan before she gets run over by random hedgehogs!

I seem to have remained in the drinking-too-much-cider phase for rather longer than most. But I do intersperse it with drinking-too-much-wine. And sizeable periods of not-drinking-very-much-at-all. Out for posh dinner tomorrow night, won't be able to afford to drink too much!

home made crosses for HCBs- mix water and strong white flour to a stiff paste, roll to a thin sheet. use lots of flour to stop it sticking. Cut into thin strips. lay strips over buns. for better results brush the strip with water to help it stick to the bun dough. Bake .

Not quite the same as shop bought ones, but fewer ingredients.

I use Delias HCB recipe but substitute strong flour ( bread flour) for plain. I tried them with plain last year and they were not right, much better gluten development with bread flour.

Your right Amber, the ginger beer does drip somewhat. What say you to a tin mug to put the beer in.