Ladies who take tea

R describes my occasional outings with other like minded female friends as “The ladies who lunch”.  Today we had afternoon tea, so we must be “The ladies who take tea” (obviously no verb in English for tea taking).

Anyway today we had a very nice afternoon tea – probably my favourite meal of the day.

After our usual conversation about comparative religion (I am not sure why, but this is generally what we talk about the most), we went for a walk by the Eden with Baxter the Dalmatian dog.  Poor Baxter had been kept away from the tea table on the entirely spurious grounds that he would have knocked the table over to get the scones, cheese and cakes and eaten the scones, cheese and cakes, making himself ill.  I suspect he would have been getting some treats when we got home 🙂