Twinings English Breakfast: organic teabag or loose leaf?
In the second of my Twinings free tea tasting posts I would like to introduce that stalwart of British tea culture: English Breakfast. English Breakfast is a blended tea, the contents usually being...
View ArticleBaking Mad with hot cross scones
Last week I received rather a lovely Easter gift, in the form of several products from the Baking Mad website. If you like eating, baking or just looking at pictures of delicious goodies, you might...
View ArticlePopcorn Tea
A few posts ago I mentioned popcorn tea, and several blogging chums commented on this curious phenomenon. I first came across it under this name at a tearoom in the small Scottish town of Lanark, where...
View ArticleBirdhouse Bakery, Muthill
Quite a while ago I drove through the village of Muthill in Perthshire and noticed a very interesting looking establishment: Birdhouse Bakery: a bakery that looked to me enticingly like a tearoom. It...
View ArticleHoots mon, it’s a wee laddie!
As you might be aware if you’ve seen any news bulletins from this part of the world lately, a small prince has appeared. Knit your own Royal baby with parents – pattern from from...
View ArticleBollywood Dreams and a squashed croissant
There is a rather wonderful tearoom in Edinburgh called Eteaket. I had been wanting to visit this place for ages and I finally got round to it a couple of weeks ago when I popped down to the city. A...
View ArticleThe Best Tearoom in Scotland
I was interviewed by a local newspaper yesterday about my “Tearoom Delights” book and one of the questions I was asked was ‘What is your favourite tearoom?’ Although I found this an extremely difficult...
View ArticleBerryfields
Delightful assistant no.1 and I recently took ourselves off to a tearoom we’d been meaning to visit for some time. Berryfields, in the Perthshire village of Abernethy, used to be called Culdees, and in...
View ArticleThe Wee Blether
Not only is the title of this post a Scottish expression meaning ‘the small talkative one’, it’s also the name of a tearoom that sits in a little village along a dead end road on the north bank of Loch...
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