Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

The Wide Awake Club

This is a space for anyone looking for support, tips on helping your baby sleep or just for a chat with fellow wide-awakers to get you through the night feeds. For more tips, check out our Ages and Stages emails.

The Happy Place Café and Tilly's dog wash is still open.

1000 replies

sashh · 19/02/2025 04:28

Morning and welcome.

To anyone new this is the Happy Place Café, all food and drink served here is calorie free. Everyone is welcome.

There are some people who have been here for literally years and others are newer.

The staff are me, obviously, Florence a French pastry chef who is married to Fernando the cocktail waiter (no one knows where Fernando is from so we suspect the marriage was about visas).

In a previous incarnation one of the regulars was Tilly (RIP) who brought a sparkling light in to the café along with a lemur named Leo.

Leo runs a dog wash (Tilly had a golden retriever and her family agreed to the dog wash as a tribute) but as there are rarely and dogs around he will wash anything, his other interests are goats and eggs. He spends every morning cooking eggs.

Outside the café is seating and a water feature, the water feature becomes a swimming pool in summer and an ice rink in winter. There is also a petting zoo.

Other residents are the kittenbees who are kittens the size of a bee with wings, they are very gentle but like to nibble anything sweet. Please do not give them alcohol.

Outside is where their larger cousins the bumblecats live, they are about the size of a fist and a lot more feisty than the kittenbees.

There is normally a daily special for breakfast and sometimes there is a pack up / bait / packed lunch.

Now to breakfast.

I thought a little trip to Germany would fit this morning so Florence is making bread rolls, soft and crusty, Leo is baking / frying / boiling eggs and Fernando is serving Apfelkorn.

I put out a selection of cooked meats, cheeses, jam, nutella, marmalade and if you want that abomination that people wither love or hate, it is in a locked box in the garden, far from the café, that is where it is to be consumed.

Actually I watched a vid from 'Atomic Shrimp' the other day that featured the brown paste added to warm milk.

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Thread gallery
18
ScottBakula · 22/02/2025 08:46

Good morning all,

It's been busy around here!

@DinoLil & @ThatAgileGoldMoose Leo originally started at the cafe as a dog washer so you can hand your dogs over to him for a soothing and relaxing bath, even if they don't normally like baths the power of the cafe changes that.
They will be be given back to you all chilled , relaxed and floofy.

@sashh maple bacon and beans on toast for and a large coffee please .
Quails eggs ? How very posh ! I'd love a couple poached please .

A couple of chocolate éclairs and a cup of not chocolate ( whatever that is 😀 ) for elevenses please

sashh · 22/02/2025 09:53

@ScottBakula not chocolate is hot chocolate before I have had my coffee.

@ThatAgileGoldMoose Just be careful with Leo, once your dog is clean dry and all fluffy he will look for something else to wash.

OP posts:
ScottBakula · 22/02/2025 10:07

@sashh ahh thank goodness for that, I thought it was one of them things like kraft 'cheese' slices that are not allowed to call themselves cheeses cos there is no cheese in it.

However I will consider myself slapped on the wrist as I know you wouldn't serve us any fake food or drinks . 😋

PoopingAllTheWay2 · 23/02/2025 01:41

Hay guys - Just wondering what is for breakfast this morning

Im going to take a coffee outside to sit with the kittenbees for abit

Lougle · 23/02/2025 02:44

I'm a first time visitor. Ideally, I wouldn't know the cafe exists because I'd be asleep. I have to take the puppy out for a wee in an hour. But here I am, awake and exhausted.

StripyMug · 23/02/2025 03:36

Welcome @Lougle!
I'm going to make myself a cup of tea and sit by the fire for a bit.
It'll be nice and cosy and hopefully will calm my racing thoughts!

sashh · 23/02/2025 06:21

Morning.

Sorry for another late start.

@Lougle welcome to the café.

I think today is a day for pancakes, I'll make the traditional type, help yourself to sweet and / or savoury toppings.

Florence is obviously making crepes, Leo claims he can make fluffy pancakes so I'm letting him free to try.

Fernando is making fruit juice cocktails.

OP posts:
StripyMug · 23/02/2025 09:44

Pancakes - perfect! I'm going to have mine with greek yoghurt and fruit and a huge spoonful drizzle of honey. Yummy!

PoopingAllTheWay2 · 24/02/2025 02:16

This reply has been hidden

This reply has been hidden until the MNHQ team can have a look at it.

PoopingAllTheWay2 · 24/02/2025 02:17

Why are all my posts being hidden tonight 😩

sashh · 24/02/2025 03:44

Morning.

Well it is Monday so there is obviously left over Sunday roast veg so I'm making bubble and squeak. Obviously Leo will be cooking eggs to go on the side.

Florence is making Apple flan and Fernando is making bloody Marys.

OP posts:
sashh · 24/02/2025 03:45

What did you say @PoopingAllTheWay2 ?

OP posts:
SorrowsPrayers · 24/02/2025 06:18

I love bubble and squeak but have never had it for breakfast.
I'll give it a go, with a fried egg on top please.
And strong black coffee.
It's raining here which has scuppered my plans.

sashh · 24/02/2025 06:22

Here you go @SorrowsPrayers Oh what plans did you have?

I think I have only ever had B and S for breakfast.

OP posts:
SorrowsPrayers · 24/02/2025 06:36

We have bubble and squeak for dinner!
I was going out to photograph an owl. He won't be out in the rain and nor will I!

ScottBakula · 24/02/2025 20:53

Good evening all , I've been on lates , it's really messing my body clock up.

Ooh @PoopingAllTheWay2 , have you been pooping on someone's chips ?

@SorrowsPrayers hopefully it won't be raining tomorrow and you can get a good photo. Have you seen this thread , there are quite a lot of us that love the early morning wildlife https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/rural_living/5168700-you-know-you-get-up-early-in-the-country-when

@sashh
Can you make me a pack up for my tea tomorrow please.

ImDoneOnceAndForAll · 24/02/2025 23:53

So im @PoopingAllTheWay and @PoopingAllTheWay2
I changed to 2 because there was an issue getting into the new thread with my old username
Last night using @PoopingAllTheWay2 account, i mentioned ‘a sleep drug’
which i wont say again. And my msg got blocked on two threads, today it looks like iv been kicked out by mumsnet with no email to explain, i cant remember what it says but it basically says my profile no longer exists

I have always changed my username afew times over the years, iv been here MANY years

So no idea…

So looks like im back here on this account
for now anyway 😂

ImDoneOnceAndForAll · 25/02/2025 04:02

Hope everyone is doing ok this morning?

Did anyone manage to see the aurora?
It was only fleeting but was there for a short time around 7pm

ScottBakula · 25/02/2025 06:23

@ImDoneOnceAndForAll how odd . Can you email mn and ask them what's going on.

No I didn't see the aurora ☹️..

I can't sleep atm so I am going to get a hot chocolate and sit by the fire for a bit . I hope a kitten bee comes and sits on my knee.

SorrowsPrayers · 25/02/2025 06:36

@ScottBakula Thanks for the link to the thread. What a beautiful calm read. I love early mornings in nature. I'll attach a photo of "my" owl.
Meanwhile I'll grab a coffee....are we cooking our own breakfast today?

The Happy Place Café and Tilly's dog wash is still open.
sashh · 25/02/2025 06:37

Morning.

Oh dear @ScottBakula and @ImDoneOnceAndForAll / @PoopingAllTheWay2 grab a seat and I'll sort things out.

@ScottBakula you are in luck, Leo has discovered scotch eggs, ideal for a pack up. I'll get you a tiffin tine with rice, curry and puris. Is veg curry OK?

I think we can go Indian for breakfast, Florence is making puris and chapatis, I'm making veg curry with a side dish of pakoras and salted yoghurt, Fernando is making chai (but also has Indian whiskey if you'd like a swig) and Leo is doing scotch eggs, but I might introduce him to egg nargis.

OP posts:
sashh · 25/02/2025 06:37

@SorrowsPrayers beautiful picture.

OP posts:
SorrowsPrayers · 25/02/2025 06:42

@sashh Thank you.
Indian will not agree with me first thing, so I'll just stick to my coffee.
Have a good day everyone.

tattoonewbie · 25/02/2025 06:42

Morning all. Work with bad dream and in a cold sweat and slept fitfully since.
I'd love a coffee as am on a course today and need to be awake !

sashh · 25/02/2025 07:02

@tattoonewbie I'll send the kittenbees over to distract you. Why is it you forget dreams when we wake but not nightmares?

@SorrowsPrayers I'm in Wolverhampton, I can get an Indian breakfast delived via Just Eat.

OP posts:
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is not accepting new messages.