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. Now interestingly I like bustle. My fave is radio on, singing, chatting etc all at once. I should perhaps be more sympathetic whn dh turns it off
Mary if you can bear to I would volunteer. It may be good for you all. I remember you saying you felt a bit lonely a while ago, or that you didn't have many friends so it could be beneficial all round?

For me it depends on the day. Sometimes I need noise and other days I need quiet.

It's been a strange, strange day!

yummy cream horns Amber, many thanks.

Do you guys need mellors down there in the priest hole? or can I borrow him for a massage.

Have just been reminded by a friend that the 2nd meeting I have to go to on monday evening is in fact at MY house... so I'd better be there on time or Dh will be rather confused. Added impetus to keep meeting number 1 short and sweet I guess.

I like bustle, too - just as well as a primary school teacher! I always have radio 4 on at home - maybe I should be more sympathetic to DH always turning it off. Maybe.

That being said, I love the odd moment of silence (but probably because they are infrequent).

MaryBS, I concur with tea room opinion on joining cubs.

Reminds me of a poem by Roger McGough, about Uncle William, who agreed with everyone, and ends with the line: 'Good old William, The Concurrer.'

pull up a pew scout. lets us watch the fire embers together while teh party rages in teh preist hole. Do Girl scouts do "camp blankets" covered in patches? If they don;t you can share mine.

Oh yes; in what way was your day strange?

Thanks UniS. Yes, they do, but they seem a bit more common here. I started a camp blanket with just my UK patches. I have LOADS (including my 50 Nights Away). BabyScout has a camp blanket, too. He has One Night Away.

Met with some other Guiders today to discuss our camp this summer. That was a bit strange (we're camping with units we don't normally camp with and while I'm meant to be the QM it feels like the other leader is more or less "setting it up her way" and it's bothering me because I don't work the way she does).

BabyScout managed to gnaw off a chunk of his apple slice at breakfast (normally he just sucks the goodness out of it) and grinned at me as he chewed and chewed and chewed and chewed (keep in mind he's toothless). After the meeting we went out for lunch and someone said to me "He's about, what, 15 months?" WHAT?! He's seven months old! Yes, he's long (DH is 6'5") but bloody hell, this guy gave BabyScout an additional eight months!

Does the pew recline as my knees are bothering me?

How has everyone else's day been?

Yep, it reclines at teh touch of a button.
You get a badge for 50 nights camping?? I'd have had that one easy. I did count it up once when I was 17 or so and a ranger , was over 100 at that point. being a guiders child I was at guide camp from age 4 or 5. I think mum did try leaving us with dad one year, but he made such a hash of it she took us with her every other year.

My Camp blanket is awesome :-) started in 1978and still going. It out grew the original tartan car rug ( as did I) so that was sewn onto a larger "army grey" blanket . totally lost count on number of badges. I don't just collect guide patches tho, mine are from any where I have been and a few swops to get different club unicycle patches.

sorry, I'll shut up, you had a strange day, enjoy a moments peace.

hello
Mary, what's up? Hope you're ok, and Amber sorry about finances

'lo all. I was shocked today to have substitution supermarker of non alcholic wine. I mean, honestly! That shoudl be illegal!

Small, you might have bumped into OxBloke

Thumb did you see they are organising a Significant Year Reunion lunch at our almer mater this year - fancy going you hve the best excuse "I'd go half way aroudn the world to avoid that" well yes indeedy

am in the MN not the tea room sense about badge blankets
and for some strange reason I want a button box. My mum had one and I used to play with it for hours. How I have a drawer crammed with buttons that I can no longer open. Tis not the same

Funny you mention button box. Just put the start of one together for middle neice. a few plain a few fancy in a pretty little box. Part of a crafty/ knitting and sewing birthday present.
Tonight I tried making and learning how to use a knitting dolly ( knitting nancy/ french knitting bobbin) . Made my tester out of loo roll inner, so the braid ended up rather loose. but it worked. Oh the power of the internet, wonderfull thing for time wasting.

Choc box of requirement anybody?

UniS, yes, you can get badges for nights away. It only started in 2006, though, so only nights starting in 2006 count. Otherwise I'd be well over as well. Badges given at 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 25, 50, 100. Not sure after that. So I've done over 50 since 2006. Should have had about 18 additional nights this past winter but I went and got pregnant and had a three month old at the time of the trip, so I backed out. I have LOADS of badges but have decided that I'd do a blanket starting in the UK since moving here/becoming a Guider started a new chapter in my life. BabyScout has patches from when he was still inside as I did three weeks of camping while seven months pregnant one week of Guide camp, one week of jamboree set-up and one week of jamboree in addition to our annual weekend adventure camp and all of the centenary activities. He also had Girl Scout patches from my council at home since he has gone to the offices and the camp I used to work at to visit and meet people. BabyScout has more badges than some of my girls! I saw some other badges on our regional website that I want to order for us when I order my promise book and centenary sweatshirt.

My legs are up and knees are still throbbing. I feel so old.

Saw the weather on the news. I hate English weather sometimes.

Oh, I once made a rug using a knitting doll. I am a sad, sad soul.

Can someone who knits tell me if USD 20 for a infant/child teddy bear hat is a good price?

wow. that must have taken AGES. I'm in awe.

It was a throw rug. Something for next to my bed so my feet didn't go from the warm bed to the cold hardwood floor. Not so impressive.

If you like it, maybe. but it sounds bit spendy. compared to
here

WOw UniS what amazing value!
UniS love the idea of you hosting a meeting in absentia!

I'm wondering now whether the lovely man I met in Christminster was OxBloke.

Scout - You've reminded me that I need to stock up on Nights Away badges. I thought they were a regional thing but obviously not as (I think) you're in a different region to me.

Would my magic foot balm work on your knees, do you think? Especially if applied by Mellors' magic hands?

well well Small, what was he like [curious] since Oxbloke might have been there