The characters of Pattata where are they now?

[gerefan2]

so not enough to just pack it all in, sell up, and live on the proceeds given that I plan on living another 3 decades.

Me too...I plan on living forever. So far so good...

[Nirish guy]

We still do a kickass cream tea so it's not all bad. Scone with jam and cream anyone?

Would that be a S'cone or a Sc"on" you're talking about there I wonder ?

[FarangRuMak]

Would that be a S'cone or a Sc"on" you're talking about there I wonder ?

Hope they're not as rock hard as the stone of scone.

[arsenal]

And please. The scone for afternoon tea should be plain. Anyone who serves fruit scones is just plain old common.

[Nirish guy]

Hope they're not as rock hard as the stone of scone.

I think some of the excuses for scones that I've been served up in many english tea rooms that have been sold to me masquerading as "fresh scones" have been roughly about the same age as the Stone of Scone, only as you say IT wasn't just as hard !

[frequent]

And please. The scone for afternoon tea should be plain. Anyone who serves fruit scones is just plain old common.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?

[arsenal]

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Henry James

[frequent]

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Henry James

Then drinks and dinner. It was one of Auden's set I believe who coined the saying "Sodomy was invented to fill in the time between drinks and dinner" - an idea that possibly would have appealed to Henry James, closeted old queen though he was

[arsenal]

For me personally. Henry James is to Edith Wharton as a Mr Kipling French fancy is to an Opera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_cake

[frequent]

For me personally. Henry James is to Edith Wharton as a Mr Kipling French fancy is to an Opera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_cake

A Mr Kipling French fancy? I'd have thought a French tickler more to your taste