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PasturesNew wrote: »That's a regular type of price for tea/scones anywhere! It's cheap in London then!
I just typed the name of where I am and the words afternoon tea and the top google result gave me a price of £7.95 for a pot of tea for one, a plain scone and a fruit scone, clotted cream and jam.
It's probably close to £6 in a greasy spoon type of place.
I also just found this website, no idea if it's rubbish or not: http://www.afternoontea.co.uk/
Sotheby's is proper posh too and you'd probably pay that much in a standard department store caf! In Guildford or St Albans (other towns are available).
The more I think about it the better that deal is. I'm meeting City mates for lunch & dinner & drinks so that would make a great non-alcoholic break in procedings while people go back to pretend to work.0 -
If you can stretch to it, Browns and Claridges are both excellent. I've heard differing views about The Ritz.
Best value on a Thursday? Probably Sotheby's if you want to go somewhere fancy:£7.50 for tea and scones, £20 for the works. Plus you can have a butcher's at the viewings which is always fun. My mate and I used to go to the viewings there and try to work out what made something cheap or expensive.
There's a great place in Greenwich but I don't think it's open on Thursdays.
Sotheby's sounds like a great idea. I'm just not sure how DW will feel tomorrow.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I'm supposed to be taking DW out for tea in central London tomorrow. Any suggestions, please?
There is somewhere high up the Shard that does afternoon teas. You could fool yourself that it is :money: because it works out cheaper than "just" going to the viewing gallery and having a cuppa elsewhere.
There is also a Mad Hatter's tea at a hotel off Oxford Street that a friend tells me is amazing.
Well done:T mas, really pleased for you!
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Oh, or there is the Wellcome Collection cafe: http://www.wellcomecollection.org/visit-us/wellcome-caf%C3%A9
not sure whether they do afternoon tea though
What a clever suggestion! They say they do afternoon tea, and they are right next door to uch.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
What a clever suggestion! They say they do afternoon tea, and they are right next door to uch.
Also I hope the MRI goes ok. I don't think it matters what its for, its still horrid.
I do hold that its nice and clean and warm and cosy once you are in, its just the moving in and out, but particularly in I do not like. And that head cage. Shudder. I don't like feeling trapped very much.0 -
There is somewhere high up the Shard that does afternoon teas. You could fool yourself that it is :money: because it works out cheaper than "just" going to the viewing gallery and having a cuppa elsewhere.
There is also a Mad Hatter's tea at a hotel off Oxford Street that a friend tells me is amazing.
Well done:T mas, really pleased for you!
On thank you's, the kids have been trained that they need to phone and personally thank the giver.
I went there on my hen party. We did not drink tea, but that looks like great fun!
Mmm. Meeting friend in London at 4 on Saturday...Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Sotheby's sounds like a great idea. I'm just not sure how DW will feel tomorrow.
If Mrs GDB doesn't feel up to walking there's always the Radisson on Tottingham Court Road. Can't vouch for the quality but it's twenty quid each and right across the way from the hospital.
Alternatively, if you just want to smash down half a dozen lagers and a pie there's the Prince of Wales Feathers on Warren St where I used to work waaaay back when.0 -
Sleeping pattern out of whack. Finding myself specifically staying up to listen to late junction. Not a good plan.
Trying to think of lots more meals centering arou d rainbow chard and silver beet without it getting too samey. They are the onl
Y crop we have left really ( a few beets, maybe the odd other thing). I was very bad about winter planting. But I love the rainbow chard because besides everything its so cheerful looking. And this year none of it has bolted.
We need to do a bit of a weed and clear. We didn't even harvest all our corn,.......so wasteful.
I want to be ready to hit spring sowing with gusto out there.0 -
Our first Christmas tree for years, gone for a real one. Still needs a little more on it but it is shaping up nicely.
We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0
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