22nd August 2012, Cavendish Tea Room revisited.

November 2011. Enormous, but warm and friendly.

We didn't really wait for Pete to be away on holiday before we returned to the Cavendish Tea Rooms, but we felt easier about the visit. Our previous call  is documented in my blog of 23rd November 2011, "The search for the most expensive scone is over" was the title. When I wrote that account I was unaware (these days it is not unusual for me to be unaware, due to age-related Mutton. Rhyming slang; look it up) that Peter had, on that occasion, had a full and frank exchange of views with the management  regarding value for money. I did record my own surprise at finding my usual fiver inadequate to the task of clearing my debt - but I was terribly restrained and merely held my tongue and borrowed from TomTom. In any event it was probably for the best that the terror of the tearoom wasn't with us. Peter will always tell it like it is, especially if the way it is isn't to his liking.

August 2012. Even bigger, but chilly. Cool, even. Hence shades

A picture of decorum

A perfect ambience

Glenn Morris hopes they won't  spot what he's hidden under his napkin

Back to the present then. But with a nod to that previous trip. But more about that later..  . . . Justin because, having looked it up, I realise that there was a similarity in the circumstances. TomTom brought someone to the tea stop by a different route, and someone who had a puncture arrived late, with an escort. Last year it was Dawn Demarco who had the puncture, and was helped by Chris Wiseman and TomTom - who brought them to Cavendish along the main road, while the rest of us took the back road route. This time it was new Mercrediste Graham Dixon's second puncture, and it happened on the main road just short of Cavendish, and it was I who stopped to assist.Though this had the appearance of a second puncture, it was actually the sliver of flint that caused the first one which had been hiding in a cut in the cover for about twenty miles (they do that; if you find no cause for a puncture this means that you've missed it. There is always a cause, and if you don't find it you will most certainly get a repeat deflation).

I never finished this Blog. I came across it this Sunday morning 17th February 2013, after Publishing my 15th Feb edition. The photos are jolly, so I'll publish right away. Maybe we'll be able to repeat a visit in the spring or maybe it has gone the way of all premium scones. Maybe someone knows? Perhaps there Solicitor? No!  that's quite enough Solicitors thank you.

SJH