Tea Room the Fifteenth - The Viking Hall

[amberlight]

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.

[ASmallBunchOfFlowers]

There is an alcohol free alternative, of course. What would you like? But the magic of the tea room is that the booze does not intoxicate (unless you want it to) and you can spend all day scoffing cake and twiglets without getting fat or sick.

We do indeed have a place for home-baked treats. It seems the aga has been transplanted from the caravan to the long hall.

[thumbwitch]

have you all gone to bed again?

A&O - sympathies - miniThumb hasn't quite achieved those levels of strop yet but I'm sure he's working up to them. It's amazing how hard it is to strap them into a carseat when they don't want to be, isn't it.

DMC - silly question but have you made DD's new room look just like her old one? If not, that might help a bit.

RS - bummer about the speeding ticket - last one I got I just paid the fine because the re-education thing was over £90 and I had no points on my licence at that time, so wasn't over bothered about picking up 3.

Catita - hello again!

Scout - love the muppets - good choice.

JM - bum doctor - eep! Have you told us about that already?

[Scout19075]

Oh go on then, make mine a G&T, too. However, will pass on the Twiglets (they taste like burnt bark!).



I think I still hear DS.

[MaryBS]

DD has had friends, but one in particular has turned on her, and some of the others have followed suit. They've ganged up against her, not being that nasty but won't let her play with them. She has struggled with friends. She is allowed friends round, although she doesn't have them round very often, but I've always struggled with the social side because of my Aspergers, in terms of socialising with the mums, which doesn't help. I HAVE tried, but its very very hard for me.

Part of it I think is bitchy pre-teens. She is also VERY sensitive and can be VERY bossy, which puts them off...

[amberlight]

Morning all.

Scout, did you get some sleep eventually?

JM, hoping things sort out with the doctor - goodness me.

RS, argh re ticket. Not sure it makes much difference to insurance these days if it's one rather than a brace of them. (My PA is on the police awareness video for this region as a "traffic hazard", as she looks like a supermodel and traffic tends to swerve all over the place when it sees her out in her summer power-walking outfit, apparently, so the police secretly filmed her and included her. Very odd, some of these drivers!! And a bit of the police, too!)

Last night, the last of the Under 17s rugby social events - they move on to adult teams next season. Many tears when the awards were given out. Lovely, but a real shock to see them all grown up and HUGE!! I remember when they were knee high to a proverbial grasshopper.

[Scout19075]

Eventually. Two and half hours he was awake. I think I cried at some point (real or imaginary, I don't know). Once I got BabyScout back settled, he slept through until 6:30 a.m. (which is about his usual wake-up time). So a nice five hour block, but not nearly enough sleep. We have a Guide overnight to go to/run today so won't get a decent night's sleep tonight, either. I don't think I've had a full night's sleep since I found out I was preggers.

amber -- No matter how big he is, he's always your baby. I keep telling BabyScout that as he grows every day!

Think I'm developing the lack-of-sleep headache that some weeks seems persistantly there.

[amberlight]

No pills, but Mellors does a nice line in anti-headache head and neck massages?

I sleep appallingly badly most of the time, which is no consolation to you, but I know how it feels to be desperate for some proper rest. Hoping and praying you get more sleep than you expect in the next few days...

Mary, large cup of something for you?

[mistlethrush]

having not slept properly for a few nights, was doing quite well last night - then the power went off, so the burglar alarm went off, so the alarm company rang (but I didn't wake up, get downstairs and find the phone in the dark quick enough)... So up for about an hour in the night....

Re new room - how much is there that is the same iwth the old one?

Mary - I sympathise - I tried to have best friends at that age and it always caused heartache - It wasn't until I was 14 or 15 that I learned that it was much easier doing my own thing and not bothering with best friends. I don't have any friends from school - but at least I got through...

[RacingSnake]

Bonsoir, tout le monde! Or words to that effect in Old Norse.

The last full night's sleep I had was July l6 13th, 2006. Not sure if I appreciated it enough .... Quite relieved not to have a burglar alarm!

Amber, he will always be your child!

Mary, sympathy about dd's friendship issues. As a teacher I am on the other end of the problem - mothers coming to me saying that x's friends have turned on her, and would I do something about it ... I have long talks with the girls, but it doesn't rarely solves the problem. The only thing I can think of is helping her develop interests so that she is really too busy to care. But school social life is so important at that age and so difficult ...

[thumbwitch]

Mary, so to hear of your DD's friend problems - it's so horrible at that age (or indeed any age) to deal with. miniThumb started to experience it at playgroup before Christmas with a bunch of girls who were aged 4+ - even at that age, they were exclusionary little cowbags. I have no real advice apart from to remind her that if they can't see what a wonderful girl and friend she is, then that is their loss and she is better off finding some new friends who do understand her worth. (Doesn't necessarily help short term but the message will stay with her and help longer term)

I can't remember having a full night's sleep since I was about 3m pg either - that's only 3 years ago though so I'm a lightweight in comparison with several of you.

Am having another episode of not-quite-a-cold again - sneezing and snuffling, itchy throat and nose, lasts for a couple of days, never progresses into anything and then buggers off for a few weeks until the next time.

[thumbwitch]

Oh what bliss - MrThumb took miniThumb off this morning for a bit, allowing me to watch the end of the "new" St. Trinian's film (I am a long-time fan of St.T's) and it was fab until I realised they let Girls Aloud in to be the "school band"! Outrage. Ah well, they didn't get advertised as Girls Aloud except in the music credits at the end; they were listed in the Cast by their names. Still.
Great film though!

[Catitainahatita]

I last slept through the night before I got diabetes (which was probably about a year before I finally got diagnosed). More or less, 2003 ish. I think, perhaps. Not sure really.

I am happy to report a decrease in the amount of snot and mucus being produced in our house. Pity that both darlings now have diahrea provoked by swallowing above mentioned fluid.

I hop Racing, AandO and Mary, plus their respeactive offspring have had a better day today.

[MaryBS]

Thanks everyone for your good wishes. I DO hope its a good day today, unfortunately some of the cows girls, the ringleaders are at church and in the junior choir also, so it may be tricky...

[thumbwitch]

not very good examples of good Christian behaviour then, are they, Mary!

[mistlethrush]

TW - my school was somewhat similar too, so I could cope!

Mary - sorry that it seems to have extended beyond school.

[MaryBS]

Not sure if they'd appreciate me reminding them of that though! OR their parents!

I guess that's the trouble with pre-teen girls though, they are pack animals, hunting out those who are different.

Maybe I should encourage DD to hang out with the adults, they appreciate the fact she is bright, clever, polite and well-mannered...

[amberlight]

[drivingmisscrazy]

amber yes please, some for me? Well last night DD went straight to sleep in her new room (possibly aided and abetted by my marathon curtain making extravaganza - started at 2.30, curtains hung - and I had to put up the rail - by 6.45!) and we went out to dinner with friends. Much wine was consumed , but I feel absolutely fine - just as well as poor DP has only just managed to lift her head from the pillow. Damp and cool here - and not sure that I am going to make it to the allotment today - I have loads of things to plant out, and seeds to sow.

DD now refusing to nap, even though she is tired...grrr

[ASmallBunchOfFlowers]

[amberlight]

St Trinians are my fave films. Well, those and Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and Hot Shots

There's a Ukelele orchestra? Well I never!

DMC, very glad to hear that the sleep battle has been won (temporarily). Hoping it becomes more permanent.

DH is very today. Not sure what he's eaten. So much for a nice weekend out. Ah well. It's let me do some proper artwork/painting, which I haven't done for ages.

[MaryBS]

I love those films too Amber, so we can blush together . You can add Police Academy (the first 2) and Airplane! (and 2)

Hope DH is OK... perhaps he's been sampling the Viking fare on the table over there, the smoked whale looks a little suspect... it made me blubber anyhow

[thumbwitch]

Nothing to about in those films at all - add me in too, to all of them!

Mary - ahahaha to the whale joke! Hope church went ok for your DD today and the cowbags other girls didn't make things hard for her.

amber - poor DH! must have had a rancid wild pig. Or perhaps he's just over-full?

[MaryBS]

Thanks thumbwitch, DD seemed fine at church this am, although DS's behaviour left a lot to be desired!

[CMOTdibbler]

Glad she seemed happier Mary

I was trying to persuade DH that Womad would be a good festival to go to (he is v v about the concept), largely on the strength of the Ukelele Orchestra, and Rolf Harris. He is still unswayed

Bolly anyone ?

[ASmallBunchOfFlowers]

Did you say Bolly?

And the Ukulele Orchestra are going to be at Womad? I did not know! I am such a lightweight (except in the avoirdupois sense, sadly).

Chocolate muffin, anyone?