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.

Oh cripes. I'm almost the age of AandO's mum.

Hi Scout, nice to see you again

Smallbunch, you are postively youthfull compared to DS's friend's dad who will have to retire in 3 years. The judgey mums are very - which is their loss as he is much more fun than them

Racing, I recommend persuading Wriggle to be a pony - ponies walk, trot and halt on command, plus they wear their rugs. You do have to get over the mild shame of calling 'trot on pony' in public, but hey

Am searching for extra wide socks for Dad today if anyone sees any

CMOT, can a pony be worse than someone who has to sit at the kerb before crossing the road and threatens to wee on bushes?

Dc being a dog isn't too bad. here girl, good girl. heel etc are not too outrageous to be hear saying in public. The barking can be annoying tho.

Yep, high-pitched yapping. Off to our basket bed now. Good night, all.

Oh, and, SmallBunch, both me and Wriggle's best friend's mum have been addressed as 'granny' and another friend with a three-year old is also a grandma. And all our offspring are far younger than SmallGirl, so when they are her age, we (esp I) will be far older than you.

Evening all. Yes I guess in our amalgam tea room persona we should add "very old" to our parental attributes. I am older than half the cabinet which we have discussed before but I still find mildly disconcerting ...
Oxpoppin's mum is younger than me I'm not sure which of the three of us was more shocked when we found out
I am blessed with two lovely still alive parents , one of each sex, neither dramas nor ishoos attendant on their lives or our relationships. Thank goodnes.
Scout grand to see you again
any news from Catita? Hope her chest infection resolved and her feeding of Gatita was ok
thanks for pavlova. I offer hot cross buns. Sorry. Just what I am feeling like today

A hot cross bun would be lovely, Oxeye.

Are you feeling hot and cross? You need one of Mellors' relaxing shoulder rubs.

I really must go to bed. I have just done a mammoth pile of ironing and, while I did it, got engrossed in the Vanessa Redgrave film on BBC4. So I'm torn between seeing the end of the film and going to bed. I guess it has to finish soon.

I have just posted on the '40+ career woman - or not' thread. I was quite lucky in that most people I knew did know of my circs and why it took me until 39 to get pg (although my boss bizarrely thought I was only 36 - no idea why - they even put the wrong birth date on my P45!). I didn't see the newspaper article but tbh I'm a bit sick of the papers bashing mums for the sake of it. If it's not working/SAHMs, it's ages, or bf'ing, or Mumsnetters - you'd think they could got out and find some real news, no?

Scout - good to see you back.

Thanks for the pronunciation tips, ladies!

Morning all. Rough night with BabyScout -- think teething, slight cold and lack of interest in food yesterday caught up with him. Soooo sleepy. I wish the teeth would hurry up and come in already. They are taking FOREVER, though Mom-of-Scout says mine didn't come in until I was 12+ months old. I have a long few months ahead of me then....

BabyScout and I went back to the US to celebrate US Mother's Day. (I'm American but hubby is English and we've decided to live here.) We normally go back once a year for Thanksgiving, but since I'm on maternity and BabyScout is my parents first/only grandchild, DH sent us over for two plus weeks (he wasn't able to come with us). Was a very nice break and a chance for BabyScout to get thoroughly spoiled with cuddles and clothes and toys and more attention. Nice for me, too, because I wasn't alone during the day. Been back a few days, got back into the routine of life in the UK then the long Bank Holiday weekend crept up and has thrown us off again. sigh.

oops, I seem to be excessively young for the tea room...can I stay or should I get my coat?

LittleO arrived 4 years before we even planned to start on the trying thing. He arrived just 2 weeks after dh started back to uni on a 4 year course as a mature student, whereas we had planned to start trying after dh graduated from uni. We were 30 and had just bought a house, so in a fairly positive place for an unplanned pregnancy.

Hi Scout!

Oh no, AandO, please stay.

If it's true that in space nobody can hear you scream, then on the internet nobody can see your my wrinkles.

Or my grey/white roots - which, obviously, I am far too young to have in such quantity. Am seriously considering going au naturel as they show so fast as am pure white at the front.

Hope everyone had a good day - for the first time since we have lived here, the town carnival wasn't rained on, so a lovely time at that was had by all

I seem to be young, too. That feeling doesn't happen often these days!

AandO, actually, I think you and I are in the same ballpark in terms of age... infact doing some sums I think I may even be a little younger than you but.. only a very little!

Amber - I am after some ideas on something you know LOADS about but not really interweb fodder. Would you mind if I e-mailed you?

ohhh, a dry May carnival, how unusual.

rain forecast for tomorrow here then a run of dry days while we have family staying- Hurrah if it happens that way. I have a big pile of cardboard boxes waiting for kids to make dens with in garden.

Have had a wonderful day at jousting . Oxknave and oxknight were both cantering about until past bedtime. I am not sure who enjoyed it most.
AandO don't go. You and tea are our essential guide to yoof kulture
lol at offspring as animals. We just have crazy dancing and incessant singing at our pad

I think we're going that way too, oxeye. Incessant singing - already provided by MrThumb. Crazy dancing - miniTHumb has his moments for that, notably dancing along to "I like to move it, move it" at the beginning of Madagascar 2. And dancing wildly to the closing theme for 'Pinky Dinky Doo' - a Sesame St production that I never saw in the UK, so you might not get it.

I realised the other day that one of my major annoyances isn't here - Peppa Pig! Hurrah!

Yukky question - how do you get bogeys out of your child's nose, when it has been up there long enough to go crusty? miniThumb has not perfected the art of blowing his nose yet and I don't always spot them when they're still soft (he's never really been a snotty child) - I end up having to hold him down and cause him much trauma - he hates it. Are there any appropriate implements one can use when the rolled up tissue fails? (I've tried cotton buds, they don't work either)

thumb We use a nasal aspirator on BabyScout. He doesn't like it, but it works. This is one. Mom and Dad used to use them on BabyScout's aunt and uncle, which is why I thought to get one. BabyScout cries for a minute or so while it's happening (think it's more the holding his head than the actual sucking) but stops as soon as we let go. Gross, I know, but it works.

BabyScout SLEPT THE WHOLE NIGHT!

SCout, thanks for that - does it shift the really crusty stuck on ones though? They're the ones that bother me miniThumb.

I'm not sure I tried on really dry ones (BabyScout just turned 7 months over the weekend, so not too many bogey noses yet). Sometimes I squirt him with a saline solution first then attack with the snot-sucker. That seems to work well, too. He doesn't seem to mind the saline as much as the sucking, but then again I don't have to hold his head as much/tight as I do for sucking.