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.

Ah yes, a picture of Oxeye! I'd recognise her anywhere!

Drinks all round?

You looked lovely at Chelsea Oxeye, and looking forward to seeing you in all your bling in a bit.

I'm afraid mum is going to be like her mum - an increasing loss of short term memory, more personality changes (the first noticable thing was temper - previously mum was the calmest person in the world)etc. I don't think nana was ever really aware that she had problems, but she wasn't very nice with it.

No formal diagnosis, but nana had vascular dementia, and mum fits the signs perfectly, so I assume its that.

On a lighter note, would anyone care to hazard a guess why DS painted himself with soup at nursery yesterday ?

Am very relieved to have found someone that DS knows will be at school with him, and it's someone he likes and whose mum and dad are nice too. Mum puts me to shame as she has 3 children 4 and under (4,3,2 to be precise) and is always totally immaculate in a very effortless way

Thanks for the coffee Amber, just what I needed

Hope DS makes a speedy recovery Mary.

oops, got caught out making an inaccurately snitty comment to someone today . She was kind of asking for it but she pulled me up on several points and I had to then go and justify why I had said what I did - half way through my justification I realised that I may have confused her with another poster as well (whoops), thus rendering my original thought an overstatement. Wah! Still, I did apologise.

CMOTD - nasty thing your mum might have, is there any sort of prevention? Even things like fish oils, antioxidant vitamins, that kind of thing? I hope it's not hereditary.
THat's nice for your DS - I am hoping that he will be able to go to school with children he has met at playgroup when the time comes as well.

Fingers crossed for your DS's recovery, Mary

Whoops thumb - I hate when that happens...

How is everyone today?

I had an insanely busy weekend, got a lot accomplished, but felt rotten all w/e... Mother Nature was not my friend the last few days. I have a horrible cold, the heaviest period in months, and an upset tummy. Call me UnHappyCopter.

Built DS's Big Boy bed on Sunday... he loves it and wants to sleep in it rather than in with us... however, he still wants me in with him, LOL.

"Sleep in J's bed."

"Ok, you hop in your bed."

"Mummy sleep in J's bed, too."

Donki, any news on your dad? And more hugs to Mary and CMOT and anyone who needs them. I'm going to assume that I'm not contagious in the Viking Hall.

Arrrh Ha. Unis bounds into the hall having just had a good cooling sail in the long boat with mellors...

Well I can dream, might have been cooler than gardening at dusk was.
Why do 4 yr olds have no sence of adventure. offered the chance to have a picnic lunch on the moor by a stream ( which did require a 20 min bike ride to get there) boy turned it down coz he " wanted to stay at home for ever and only go out from home for preschool and ballet". OH joy, , he is being taken swimming tomorrow weather he wants to or not.

Ear runs all round and wisps of hay. or something of equal value to you if your not donk.

OMG! My book has just arrived! I though I was getting 6 complimentary copies but it looks like the 6 are shared between me and the other editor - still, 3 copies isn't bad - it looks GREAT! I am chuffed to bits - all that angst and hard work and staying up til God knows when doing the bloody Index of Doom - all worth it.

How exciting thumb!

How do we go about buying a copy???!!!!??? - I'd really love to see it!

Two days down - no tea found...

Ach, you don't want a copy, honest! It's a text book and costs, I think, £42 a copy full price. It's on functional medicine - the 21st century fusion of complementary and conventional medical techniques (we wish, anyway - it's still largely viewed as complementary by conventional medics but more are coming over to the idea)

LOL re the tea - perhaps the pixies had it?

The question is, does it look good on the coffee table???

We're going on holiday on Friday ! A week in the Vendee!

oh yes, not as big as some coffee table books but still not bad.

DS is better then, Mary? Good news.

Really strangely engaged by the missing tea. Did Eccles eat the mug?
congrats on book Thumb. That's amazing.
Mary so glad you're off onhols
love to all flying by or lurking and hugs to Donki

Eek, I'm on some threads in the style and beauty section!! Me! I'm not sure what my sudden interest in clothes is about but its kinda fun.

Thumb - That's great!!

Mary - Where is the Vendee?

Tea - I reckon you'll find it on a high shelf somewhere you least expect it to be, and you just haven't looked high enough.

Thanks all!

Oh yes, the missing tea. I remember leaving and losing a cup on a window ledge behind the curtains once. Probably put it down as I went to look out of the window

As for painting in food, CMOT, its a form of self-expression, a multisensory experience, not unlike being wrapped in a duvet, but with the benefit of a delicious aroma as well. Not only that, but perhaps noticing how people are attracted by the smell of soup, its a subconscious attempt to make himself popular.

(no Amber, put the soup down, its too hot at the moment to play with! And anyway the noodles will get tangled in your hair!)

Sorry, forgot to add, the Vendee is on the west coast of France, not quite halfway down

Was that Mellors I saw walking past the window, wearing nothing but a dab of mulligatawny soup and a smile?

The Vendee is beautiful. I am , Mary.

Would anyone care for a teensy bucket snifter of sherry?

Just a teeny one then

Congratulations Thumb ! Are you feeling better now ?

Yes, congratulations! Is that a copy I see on the tea room bookshelf?

Tea, have you tried: the bathroom ie shelf by the mirror/in medicine cabinet, next to the telephone, behind the tin of polish (you were cleaning)....

AndO, I occasionally look at those threads, then remember who I am ...

Congrats on the book, it is hefty tome isn't it. not sure the nmbs should be standing it up like that.... it will end in tears.

Great Book Thumb!

Racing, I meant to say, do you have feather pillows? Oxboy wasn't exactly allergic, but he snores and snuffles much less since we ditched feathers in bed. So now I have my head on a bouncy and boingy pillow instead of my lovely soft feather one but at least Oxboy sleeps well

Tea - I think it's on the mantlepiece

CMOT you poor mum, tis nothing good about it really is there

UniS - did you persuade boy to leave house ever ever gain for a picnic today?

Coffee and a Danish anyone ?

I think I need to sit in the priest hole for a while. Life is all too much atm, as I'm just so frustrated trying to get any help for my parents

Sorry, its been sillyly busy in RL - especially at work. Thanks for the London recommendations - MiL has now offered to have mistlechick on his own over half term as DH has had his contract extended (woohoo!) so can't join us for a break - I was going to go there for most of the week - but instead I'll deliver him Sat evening, stay Sunday and leave in the evening after supper. Quite pleased as MiL seems to elicit whining and whingeing (we won't put up with it or baby voices) and it drives me spare, then I get cross with mistlechick and MiL....

UniS - we're goign to be down near Kinsbridge in July. There's a possibility, if DH gets another contract, that he will only be down for a long-weekend, so I might have mistlechick on my own for some of the time (with mistledog too) - so might be up for a meet if we can make it.

Mary - I hope you have a good holiday

Donki - thinking of you.

Oxeye - I've been making do with a synthetic pillow for years as DH is allergic to feathers. But got a new feather one with a allergy-proof pillow slip (for underneath) for it as a CHristmas present - DH seems unaffected and its SO much more comfortable.

Amber - you need to have a sheet of the most common mistakes people have with dealing with aspies - so that when one of your bosses is doing something twerpish again, you can pick one off your pre-copied pile and highlight the relelvant misdemeanor and leave it on their desk!

CMot - have a cuppa and a slice of sticky toffee tart with clotted cream... Sorry that you're having problems with parents.

And I need to join some of you on the salad diet for the summer. My problem is that I need to go down to about 1000 cal per day - and avoid bread and pasta within that - and I can then lose, if I'm lucky, about 1/2lb per week on average. The trouble is that its so low and such a long way to go its really difficult to sort my head out to get started and stay on it. I actually got down to target weight with WW - but had to have the minimum points for it to work... However, some of my most sucessful weeks where when I had decided to stuff having food for my points and just use them on alcohol