Fit for a Queen: Lavender Tea [14]
Lavender, to me, is so very, very English. As an Anglophile teenager, I wore Yardley’s Lavender Eau de Toilette. Once married, I searched high and low for lavender scented beeswax furniture polish so...
View ArticleThis Chocolate Teapot is a wise choice [23]
In England, there is a phrase we use to define something that is useless. For example, if my husband Mr. Tea gave me a book written in Mandarin, I would say to him first, that he was brainless, and...
View ArticleSo, this ghost walks into a tearoom . . . [6]
One of the reasons my husband and I moved back to England was because we missed going places and doing things. Not that there weren’t places to go and things to do in America ….. but we missed those...
View ArticleTea and twirling teacups at the county show [26]
Growing up in the rural farmland of Illinois in the American midwest, the annual county fair was a much anticipated event. I have fond memories of elephant ears and caramel apples, riding the...
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