During the Victoria Day long weekend, I went with some friends to the Totally British Festival at the Hamilton Convention Centre. The festival featured British entertainment (e.g., Robin Hood pantomine), music (e.g., Celtic music, tribute bands), food (e.g., meat pies) and other goods from the UK. I didn't take much photographs, but I did capture a couple of tea-themed booths on my camera.
I was immediately drawn to King's Cross' booth of pretty teawares, but I resisted the temptation to purchase anything!
I did buy some English scones to take home with me.
The ready-to-serve food was limited to meat pies (how could you not serve scones at a gathering of Anglophiles?!?) so after the festival, we went to our favourite British tearoom, Taylor's Tea Room, for lunch.
The tea cozies at Taylor's are so sweet!
I enjoyed the Buckingham Palace Garden Party Tea--a blend of Earl Grey and Jasmine--in this Delphine teacup featuring grapes.
One of my companions sipped English Breakfast tea from this dainty Paragon teacup called "Peace Rose".
I strategically only ate half of the sandwich that I ordered (not pictured) to ensure that I'd have room for the yummy scone with Devonshire cream and jam!
Our office tea social in late May was also British-themed!
I brought the vintage Tetley mugs (Churchill/Made in England), the white teapot (from the "Word Range" collection by British ceramic designer, Keith Brymer Jones), and teabags (English Breakfast, Earl Grey and Downton Abbey's English Rose). My colleagues brought English-related goodies such as: scones, clotted cream, and Cadbury chocolate.
Cheerio!
I'm joining the following parties this week:
The British convention sounds like a fun event. You have so many wonderful tearooms or tea related stores/events near where you live. I like the "tea" teapot in the first booth. Glad you were able to get your scone at the tea room. That's one big scone! How nice that the tearoom uses such high quality bone china teacups. I'm always envious of your office tea socials. Have a great tea week, Nora
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, what fun! I would have snatched up that teapot with the Union Jack B for Britain on it quick as a wink to bring home with me! The array of goodies look wonderful too. I would love to try a cup of Downton Abbey English Rose tea. It sounds lovely. You do have yourself some fun tea outings, Margie. Thanks for sharing and joining me for tea. Happy June!
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Sandi
English tea and scones...yummy!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness! I would have loved that! Looks wonderful. Besides the drooling, glad you linked to Tuesday Cuppa Tea!
ReplyDeleteRuth
Oh my, what a great festival you were able to attend! You do more fun, tea related things...sigh! You also made some nice purchases.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm wanting to visit our British store that has a nice tearoom and yummy goodies. How fun that your office had a tea social!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking to Mosaic Monday Margie.
You folks know how to have an enjoyable time. Thank you for the lovely descriptions and the beautiful pictures of the tea cups and the scone and the cozies.
ReplyDeleteI love Tea Rooms. You must have had such a good time....Christine
ReplyDeleteMargie, Earl Grey and Jasmine combination. That is very interesting! Sylvia D.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of that event???? Was there someone there from Coronation Street; there always is in the one in Toronto. That was one huge scone, but it does look yummy. I am making scones for my book club meeting next week. Along with a pot of tea!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great event! And love your Tetley tea mug! What a treasure!
ReplyDeleteIf you can go on your garden tour, you need to -- they are so much fun!
What a lovely place to go with some friends. I love the peace rose cup. It's so pretty.
ReplyDeleteOh course you'd have to supplement the lack of scones by stopping at a tearoom (your day sounds like loads of fun by the way)! That scone looks HUGE! Especially if you know what is waiting for you at your favorite tearoom :).
ReplyDeleteP.S. Thanks for sticking with my France posts! So you noticed all the ice cream. :) Our running "joke" was whether we would get to our "third dessert" of the day or not (which was really not a joke because we would).
This sounds like such a good time, especially the music....I love Celtic, Enya is one of my all-time faves....I love British music too! Earl grey with a bit of jasmine sounds divine!
ReplyDeleteI love all those scones! The tea cozies are so cute. It sounds like you had the perfect time. Blessings, Martha
ReplyDeleteI love tea and especially love scones...ummm
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Hi Margie,
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting Festival to attend. Your teapot and vintage Tetley mugs are lovely too! Happy Tea Day! Blessings, Karen
Hi Margie,
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting Festival to attend. Your teapot and vintage Tetley mugs are lovely too! Happy Tea Day! Blessings, Karen
sounds like my kind of day! And, yes, strategic planning is KEY when you want to have room for a yummy scone :)
ReplyDeleteYou lucky girl, you! Sounds like great fun, Margaret. Thanks for sharing with us :) Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed seeing this as there is a new tea room shop near my business. I think Americans have put more of a romantic spin on the tea time. We had another British tea room downtown that was stark and plain and it didn't make it. The items in the booths you show were sure fun.
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