Tea room 16 welcome to Shangri-la

[UniS]

Shangri-la = a hidden valley with beautiful views and crystal streams of course, and some inter-far eastern type of chalet things set around a Serene Courtyard with ever-blooming Japanese cherry trees, lots of refreshing fragrant teas, silk cushions, tinkling tiny waterfalls and bonsai trees, Gardens of Tranquillity etc.

Home to teh 16th Tea room, a haven for those with one or more or less children who like cake, tea, talking nonsense and oggling Mellors ( our handyman/ butler). If its your first vist, pull up a cushion .Mind out for the guinea pigs and other pets and do take care not to squash the teeny tiny naked mowhawk babies ( nmbs
, no longer naked and now toilet trained you will glad to hear)as they go about their duties helping Mellors.

Confused... come on, jump in and have a hot chocolate.

happy birthday for last week Oxboy, unless its an October birthday in which case, not just yet. Not THAT hard to find oxeye.

Boy MIGHT have been called "Forty Martyrs" by the same token. He isn't. And I'm not called Thomas.
Monday will be St Arsenius Day, there will be music in the pub to celebrate this . I fancy that who ever organises the pub music sessions has a Saints calender and is a bit of a history buff.

SMALL- many thanks, badge arrived today. You are VERY urban compared to here, I've just looked on a map.

Oh dear RS!!!! - Poor poor you!

If it makes you and Wriggle feel less alone I have just had a horrible flashback of my Mum spending a week walking like John Wayne because my sister and I went on the same end of the seesaw, convinced her to go on the other end and wouldn't stop giving her the bumps for aaaaaaaaaaaaggggggeees!

RS - I went on those spinning things last week and was naseuos (Sp?) for hours and hours. I couldn't eat!! I think all adults should go on them before just spinning their kids around!

Ok, I'm going to email CMOT and Small bunch now just to say hello, because I'm nosy!! Strangely nervous!

I don't understand the posting parcels rules at all at all at all can someone organized put all rules in one post peeerleease so I 'get what to do'?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tonight it is fireworks night in our town. We are not going because Milk and Beer are too scared. Thing is our town has the longest and one of the most expensive display in France... it feels a little bit rude not to bother walking down the road to oooooh and aaaaaarrr when they have gone to so much effort!

Ok, did it!!!

I will look through the past posts at some point and email some whoevers addresses I find !!

Beer is scared of fireworks?

Parcel rules - Ok, I can do the who is sending to who list tomorrow. The budget is £6.39 I think. No idea how we do the postal addresses thing, perhaps email or FB?

What's the context tea? it will mean something like issues relating to culpable fault
jm of course you can parcel up. The rules are that aando is by simple or complex means going to give us a parcel buddy to whom in sept we send the witty and £6.39 fruits of our deliberations to include something to eat something to read something useful and something surreal a la old tea towel with a hole. But that was racings definition of a perfect parcel
small glad you gardened did you go to the big show of whch we talked?

Oh, my email to small bunch didn't work. Must have the wrong address.

Oh weird long time between writing and posting hence disonance. Sorry
it is a fact that once you are over 20 your inner ears just Revolt at Spinning Playgrounds hence kids fine and parents vom. I feel you pain Racing. I can't even watch Oxboy go round
tea you should go to the fireworks on your own. Simple!
Aando sorry Xmas crappy last year can you share ?
I too think Martha is very hard done by and Jesus was just wrong. One of those moments when you just know the bible was written by a man. He didn't stop taking all the things Martha provided ....(hope no offence given)

I have done the hotmail thing. but my username wasn't available, so you have replace the i with a 1 and the S with a 5.

I'll have a look tomorrow evening....

Have just done a prefect frenzy of baking and making for cricket tea tomorrow. So help your self to
Banana Cake, chocolate cake, vanilla sponge, pizza, sausage rolls , onion rings and scones.
And ice cream and meringues - but they are too good for cricket tea.

Mean while DH has been manly and gender stereotypical, he's been sawing wood and mowing the lawn.

I'm not brave enough to send emails.

UniS -- I'll be sending your badge/s soon. Having a mad clear out and (non-essential) Guiding things have been shoved in a box. Will get it out this week.

I love rides/spinning things. Wondering if having BabyScout has changed that?

Fireworks are great! You should go, tea.

AandO - Beer is allowed to be scared of fireworks due to having grown up in Monte-Carlo where there is an International Fireworks Festival. Ontop of that he did accidently end up living through a civil war aged 15 which left him a bit nervous of any sort of bangs!

(...and he also ended up being married to tea wow - what an extraordinary life, hey?)

Oxeye - It isn't important just a friend mentioned it in conversation. He was talking about something to do with his work. "..... is worried about it being a liability issue, I s'pose" I was a bit because I had no idea what he meant so just nodded and frowned a bit and thought - I am sure the tearoomers will explain!

Actually fireworks have just stopped!

Actually they do go on for an unnaturally long time and becomes an endurance test!

Last year I took my cousin. She went...

"Oooooh aaaaarrrr lovely"

"Wow - that one was loud"

"My neck is starting to hurt"

"Is that the end"

"Errrr no... this is getting boring now"

"Hmmm... after a while it doesn't seem impressive anymore."

"Wahhhhoooo - at last it has finished!!!!"

A civil war Tea ! How awful.

Oxeye - big fight with sister, all siblings and spouses going silent everytime I or dh entered the room, no replies to goodmornings etc, no goodbyes on leaving, although it was well known that it would be another 6 months until most of us would see each other again.

UniS - will email you now and say hello.

I am just using my normal email account to email you guys, are the rest of you setting up seperate new accounts?

Ok will email UniS then go to bed.

Yeah - it is weird for him because he was basically a French teenager who went to visit his Granny who at the time was living in Beirut. He arrived to discover that a civil war had started, his plane was the last flight in or out of the country and he was stuck in the mess! He says it was the moment his childhood ended.

Living in the hills they were really 'in it' - there was fighting in their garden, disgusting war scenes, little food and he was even shot at a few times. He managed to get out and back to France when the first flights started again.

It was a blessing and torture in one go because he was suddenly around normal people just hanging around living their lives in France who had no idea what he had been through, what it felt like and what his innocent eyes had seen.

All very worrying really...

...but he is generally quite blazé (-sp?)about it and often uses it as an excuse to get out of housework or doing DIY "When you have lived through a civil war it makes you realise what is and isn't important! - The washing up/mending of the window/filling in those forms can wait until later while I really must tickle Milk/watch this film/read this book/phone my Mum/quietly sit here and enjoy my beer... etc... etc...!"

Ok so I have CAD$ 9 worth of leeway to mail...

• something to eat
• something to read
• something useful
• something amusing

Can it be home-made? From stuff I already have? Because then clearly cost isn't an issue.
And obviously I can't include mailing costs from Canada
(which doesn't matter to me so don't make it a stipulation please).

This is going to be fun!!!

Oh and my email for AandO:

(If too cryptic I'll spell it out in a later post)

The two-letter abbreviation for medical professionals

underscore

Anna Karenina's Russian nickname (how the Russians turn Anna into a pet name)

at

gmail.com

Just caught up very slowly due to very slow dial-up - all looking good for Tuesday UniS!

Not sure if the right person has an email contact point for me as yet - could they say please?

Thanks for breakfast, amber!

After a struggle last night, have managed to ignore BabyScout's odd whimper/call out at unsocial hours this morning and he went back to sleep until almost 8 a.m. YAY! He's now breakfast-ed and is happily playing with toys. Looks a lot like HubbyScout today except the poor unfortunate boy is stuck with my cheeks.

Did anyone else read the Hugh Hefner autobiography article in the Guardian Review? It refered to his house as Shangri-la !!

Thanks Amber .

Will do the parcel list later today.

Picture of me in my younger days at Shangri-la:

just some bunny

Mary - , looking good!

Ok, so I took the list I made before for the parcels, gave each person a number (1 - 11), wrote each number on a bit of paper, pulled a number out of the hat, first number was the sender, second number the receiver, then third number gets a parcel from 2nd number etc (does that make sense?) anyway this is what it lead to:

Tea to send parcel to AandO
AandO to send parcel to Oxeye
Oxeye to send parcel to Mary
Mary to send parcel to Scout
Scout to send parcel to Amber
Amber to send parcel to Small
Small to send parcel to Racing
Racing to send parcel to Mistle
Mistle to send parcel to CMOT
CMOT to send parcel to Tea

Oh, Jacksmamma I was unsure whether you are doing the actual parcel thing or whether you are doing the virtual parcel thing along with Thumb because of postage costs. What is the plan?

Let me know if I stupidly forgot someone !

Thanks AandO!

BabyScout went to bed easily and early tonight. Hope it doesn't bite me in the a$$ in the morning.