The St George's Day celebration went off swimmingly - helped by beautiful weather. The food went down well (although we will be eating leftovers for the rest of the week, I think!). All the Banbury Cakes were eaten and the Bakewell Tart and Wensleydale Tarts proved very popular. Eating scones with jam and cream seemed to be a new concept to people and generally I had the impression that my guests felt they'd been eating strange and exotic food, which felt a bit peculiar!
We decorated the porch with some suitably-coloured bunting and Mike managed to get hold of red and white carnations and roses, so the house looked quite festive (and we can always re-use the bunting on Canada Day). I even managed to pass on some of my Riesentraube tomato seedlings to new owners, so a good day all round.
3 comments:
Hi Amanda, Just found you blog through blotanical. Well actually you picked my post so I came to check you out. Nice blog.
Deb
Good to hear your weekend event was a success. The weather sure was gorgeous.
Scones and cream do perplex people.
Last year, a group of us tried to explain to a Spanish friend how to eat them with strawberry jam - and got into a tangled discussion about whether to put the cream or the jam on first.
We don't half complicate things for ourselves!
Esther
ESTHER IN THE GARDEN
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