Afternoon Tea

Nettle tea, elderflower cordial

Pavement Cafe

Batman's Joker

has nothing on my smile

Tea at a pavement cafe

I had just been to the dentist and had a filling on a number 3 tooth I broke on a mini-egg. My mouth was still numb and I had to apologise for slurping.

Mug Monday

I'm joining Crafty Green Poet with her post of 'Mug Monday'

Here's one of the shelves in the kitchen: My mugs are top left (the cover of my book, a gift from a partner), middle right (a tea bowl for Japanese tea), bottom shelf (left: a cat I found in an Oxfam shop, middle, an antique stoneware tea bowl and right, a procelain mug with poppy (two for £3 at Morrison's).

The Glashouse Cafe

Tea for me
Cigars for some
rain for all

Side Gate, Queen's park

On my way home
the park in springtime
a slice of Heaven

Peacocks Sunshine

Three seats in sunshine
Alas! Ours is not one of them.
Cold breeze blowing.

The Earl Grey Blog Tour

Spiky Zora Jones to start the blog tour Wed 29^th April

Kerry Power – Little Brown Blog Wed 6th May

DJ Kirkby Sunday 10^th May

Nik Jones - watching 9987 Weds 13th May

Erik Ryman Weds 20^th May

Chopper 27^nd May

Caroline Smailes

31^st May

Market Day Tea

Good company and
sunshine - what more could I need?
Ah! Of course! My tea!

Dogfield, Cemetery

Tea and toast
and Gina's marmalade --
Composted zebras

Dogs enjoy
a shaft of sunshine
warming the seats

Clouds shiver
and break under
temporary thaw

Home-made swings
on a cemetery tree
projected suicides?

Rubbish, Wheat and Tea

I gave up smoking last November and it amazes me that people still do it. Why I let myself smoke for so many years I'll never know. It was amusing this morning to come across this cigarette packet with a hi-juice carton stuffed inside. Somebody health conscious to drink the juice, smoebody environmentally conscious to stuff the carton inside the pack. Some total plonker to throw it onto a field instead of disposing of it properly.

I wondered at the healy drink and cancer sticks. Somebody's lunch, perhaps? The drink is the kind a kid takes in their lunch box. There's a school around the corner. Perhaps this is from a school lunch box then.


I've mentioned before how fond I am of wheat. This is a stalk from outside the doctors on Monday.


And tea.

This is Rington's special blend that a lady brings to the house every other week. They do sell it in Morisson's too, though not in Tesco's.

The mug was given to me by Katie, who left the family today. It has a chip in it. I like chips, but I'm on a diet.