Taking Tea

Saturday morning snuggle

Saturday was a curious and quite wonderful day.

"Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage" 

- Catherine Douzel 

On Saturday afternoon I set sail, to Maryville House to partake in some afternoon tea.  

The reason?

One of the beautiful Lynn's many hen parties (I am so unbelievably delighted that I got invited to the one that involved china tea cups and dainty sweets)

" If you are cold, tea will warm you.  If you are too heated, it will cool you.  If you are depressed, it will cheer you.  If you are excited, it will calm you. " 

~Gladstone, 1865

How I love the juxtaposition of the bride to be burping the baby coupled with the eccentric head gear in a Victorian tea room.

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."  

~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady 

Very civilised and utterly fabulous, after all "A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards."

  ~A.A. Milne 

Then just to make the day a little bit more memorable, we headed off to the circus.

  

There were lions and tigers, alpacas, palomino stallions, little dogs, clowns, acrobats, jugglers, face painters a ballerina and a flying trapeze.

Beatrice loved it (and there were one or two "oooohs" from Mummy and Daddy too)

That is definitely a day I could do again.

Circus Faces

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

  ~C.S. Lewis