Tea Room the Fifteenth - The Viking Hall

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Here we are in the 15th instalment of the Tea Room for the One Child Family board. All are welcome, whether parents of a single splendid offspring or any other number.
We are this time in a Viking Long Hall tearoom, complete with optional helmets, roaring log fires (in case of chilly spring evenings), rugs aplenty, and all the usual mod cons of life as well.
Our Viking tea room contains Mellors the gardener/handyperson with a talent for relaxing massage (amongst a variety of other characters including Bishops, camels, bison, horses, guinea pigs, dogs, etc etc for reasons that would take too long to explain but you're welcome to read the other Tea Room threads and prepare to have your mind thoroughly boggled). Plenty of tea/coffee/cake/virtual bolly always on offer.
Join us, relax, chat, enjoy.

Sorry, need the priest's hole... think I'm never coming out...

Sorry Donki, praying for you and yours and your dad too...

Donki - holding you, your Dad, and your family in my thoughts.

Oh, Mary, is it DD again ? >

Donki - I'll light a candle for you, your dad and all those near to you.

Mary - Have a soothing shoulder rub from me too.

Fresh salad from the garden and ham off the bone (suitable for vegans too in the tea room) for anyone who's hungry.

(((HUGS))) for Donki and DonkiDad and Mary from me.

I had wanted to say, happycopter, how much I love your new name!

Do tuck in to the buffet tea (or breakfast or whatever it may be your time zone). Mellors has worked so hard cultivating the potager. Look! He's got rather warm again and is taking off his shirt.

... and Mellors seems to be really enjoying his fizzy drink...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzMfW7oSKLQ

Yes, he does have that sort of effect on me many of us, doesn't he?

It was DS's attempt at saying helicopter... LOL!

Donki, terribly hard to know what to say without imposing one's beliefs on others, but am thinking of you and Mary.

joins stampede to window to watch mellors down his drink.

don;t know what to say beyond sympathy to those going through bad weeks/ fortnights.

Happy copter- lovely name. welcome back, your plaid shirt is still on a hook behind the door if you want it. Vikings prefer stripes.

Gonna be an interesting half term week. Dh goes abroad for 4 days work on the tuesday, SiL and kids arrive on wed. Pro bike racing in nearest city on Thursday. I shall bully rest of family into "doing" city sightseeing on Thursday I think. Dh gutted he will miss it.

For those of us who have enrolled in Mellors' Get Fit and Shape Up boot camp, here's his latest exercise video.

Would anyone like a glass of very cold sauvignon?

heh everyone
Donki, thinking of you and your lovely dad
Mary hope you are ok

SMall how was Bollywood? It sounded fun. Did you go evening or matinee?

We have officially melted. Lovely weekend but we are just puddles on the floor

Hello Oxeye. Have some very cold wine.

Bollywood was completely fantastic. Negligible plot. Disco beats. Energetic dance routines. Extremely handsome and muscular young men with no shirts on. (Do you spot a theme here?) We went to the evening performance - have other things to do on Saturday afternoons and, besides, we are fairly lax about bedtimes at the weekend. I want to go again to see kabuki but SmallBloke thinks that might be Too Much.

Were you there? Did you not spot my banner, depicting the Tea Room coat of arms - glitterball argent, aspidistra vert and fruit shoot rampant?

ha ha ha re the Tea Room coat of arms, I do indeed wish I had been there. Sadly I was at home drinking too much of the Good Grape with old friends

I LOVE the tea room coat of arms - although I feel that there should have been some Bishops dormant on it as well, and perhaps some NMBs diminuitive (NB - gen-you-eyne heraldic terms)

Bollywood does sound rather fab.

Mary - so that you are in need of the priesthole again - have a hug, a large box of something yummy, an iced chocolate and a book on How to Beat Up Nasty Bullying Yypes so that they Learn Their Lesson and Never Do It Again.

Hear hear to getting rid of bullying ypes. Here is coffee , eggs and bacon

Its not DD this time, its me feeling very unhappy and alone and friendless IRL

bishops dormant and nnbs diminutive.... along with the rampant fruit shoot I love it.

I'm plotting, how to get boy to walk two miles to a paddling/ wet rock sliding moorland stream pool . No car this week. Ohhhh, we could cycle... most of the way. will have to walk the last bit . not today however as he has preschool in afternoon and I'm attempting to do some work from home while he watches videos.

Oh Mary - have more hugs and tea and sympathy and perhaps a jam doughnut or several. Do you want to say any more about it? Has someone let you down? At least you have us, although I know that's not the same exactly, it's better than nothing.

Good morning all!

UniS, I can get Wriggle to walk quite a way, probably a couple of miles, by finding treasure along the way. I have a pocket full of shells, tiny toys from her heap of plastic crap toy basket, hairclips from the bottom of my bag etc and I drop them behind clumps of grass, sit them on walls etc. With prompting, she then finds them, gives them to me for safe keeping and I then plant them again. Quite possibly Boy is a good bit brighter than Wriggle, though. Or maybe she knows it is all pretend, but is humouring me.

MaryBS, you are never alone and friendless here and probably less than you think IRL. (if you would like it. If not, pass it on to someone who needs it.)

Thinking of Donki and DonkiDad today.

Would like to see the TeaRoom coat of arms!

Really sorry you feel like that Mary - tbh, I'm very short on the friend front irl, and don't know what to do about it. Mostly I try not to think about it

It's too hot to work - for once I wish I worked in an office with air con.

Iced coffee anyone ?

When the kids were younger, I used to get them to walk long distances by collecting points, each manhole cover was a point, but it could only be collected once, so whoever got there first collected the point. Only make sure you tell them the ones in the road don't count!

Donki, how are you and yours?

Latest upset was that someone I thought was a friend was having a birthday BBQ and we hadn't been invited. Then it got me thinking about how few times we get invited anywhere, or anyone comes here. Silly really. Don't want to be a needy clingy friend, but equally I am fed up of feeling isolated. Maybe I should tell myself what I tell my daughter - not to worry about friends like that because they aren't real friends.

And yes, thank you, I know I have friends on here, and I do value my online friendships!

oh thats pants when things like that happen, MAry - I hate it too. Did you see that thread about the poor little girl - only one guest turned up to her 3rd birthday party (the OP's DD) - the rest of her "friends" and family didn't bother.