Holy Moly! I can barely contain myself...........

Eeekkk!!

The marvel that is Tim Burton has taken the marvellous Alice in Wonderland and created a film that is sure to be a veritable feast for the eyes!

Quick quick take a look-see

Alice in Wonderland Trailer

I won't be late for this very important date!

A cup of tea...

Makes everything better...

 Whatever the weather, shake those blues away with a cheery cup of sunshine in a pretty flowery teacup and life seems so much brighter. Tra- la-la!

And if we get a little raucous and start dancing on the cupcakes,

well who could blame us..

Kick up your heels and dance on tables!

Now doesn't that put  a flounce in your petticoats ?

Tootle pip..

Have a lovely weekend filled with tea and dancing(table not necessarily required!)

pics from here

Golden Afternoon Tea Company Saves Cinemas

On Sunday we were thrilled to be providing Afternoon Tea for a fantastic pop up cinema event in

Hither Green, South East London. The day of films was organised by the Hither Green Community Hall and Arts Society which was formed to save the historic cinema building of Hither Green and to raise awareness of the need for a cinema and community hall in the area.

We adore a lovely film so how could we resist..

 An empty warehouse was transformed as if by magic for the day and the crowds thronged to see the first cinema event in the area since 1957!

The first film was that wonderful classic and one of my absolute favourites, My Fair Lady.
Is there no finer musical? Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn... Colonel Pickering!!
 Cecil Beaton's incredible costumes in the Ascot scene and ahh, Audrey's frock that she wears to the ball- good golly makes me weak at the knees! Not to mention the heavenly songs, there was lots of silent singing behind the tea tables!

And of course, what could be more perfect than to tuck into Afternoon Tea as we tapped our feet and sang along.

Although there was not much chance to catch our breath, we were rushed off our feet with queues tailing far far back, phewie.
We couldn't pour the tea fast enough.

We even had to recruit the lovely Matt as an honorary Tea Maid!

We had a scrummy selection of cakes and we were rather carried away with the My Fair Lady theme

Luverly lemon drizzle with crystalized flowers and an enormous chocolate and violet heart shaped cake.
We had lots of apple cakes, thanks to a bountiful amount of cooking apples from a Kent orchard,
an apple and vanilla sponge, apple raisin and walnut cupcakes and a gooey and gorgeous apple and blackberry cake.

Lina made her fabulous lemon and poppyseed cupcakes and don't forget the scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam.
It was all demolished before we even had a chance to take some pics to show.
So here are the best we could get, most of the cakes had been snaffled up!

 

How perfectly civilized for a Sunday afternoon!
People kept coming back for more and one was even overheard saying this was the most delicious cake he had eaten in his whole life.. We like that lots.

Thanks to everyone who came and the team who worked so hard and organised such a fantastic day, let's hope it's the first of many!