Preparation. Join me tomorrow for another virtual tea party and find out what I’ve got planned for these ingredients.
In January, when I posted the first monthly virtual afternoon tea, it just seemed like a nice excuse to bake a cake and share a few random thoughts with you.
I had no idea that within a few weeks millions of people would be living our lives in an increasingly virtual space; avoiding overseas travel, working from home, stock-piling loo paper (NOT GUILTY OF THAT ONE) and suddenly showering elderly relatives with the attention they have always deserved.
Self-isolation, social distancing, flattening the curve; phrases that meant little or nothing in January, have become not only part of our everyday speech, but principles guiding daily life.
Luckily, my local grocer has been spared panic-buying of baking ingredients, so I’m off to make a few treats to share with you tomorrow.
Hope you can join me. Face-masks NOT required, and virtual hugging positively encouraged.
Thank you Su, for hosting this! I look forward to your post.
Deb
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π thanks Deb
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Great! Something to look forward to.
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Lovely thoughts, Su, and plan to be there, whilst also getting my own together for this hemisphere.
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Fabulous!
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Hmmm….what to have to share is the question. I am sure I’ll think of something Su. See you at the table tomorrow π
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Yay. So looking forward to this π
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At -10 degrees and another cold night approaching, your invitation for a pleasant tea party is definitely tempting, Su.
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Hope you can make it Peter.
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I can’t wait to see what you’ve made for us Su.
Leslie xoxo
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I’ll just have to bring a cup of coffee. I have no flour. π
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I’ll have plenty to go round. How are you doing? How is your eye?
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Doing okay. My eye is going well. I think I will cancel my review appointment with the ophthalmologist tomorrow. Nothing to see here. π Hope you and your family are going well, Su?
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I’m glad to hear that Tracy. T and I are fine. Because of our work-from-home lifestyle, things feel a bit like business as usual. The boy-child is a worry, but we can only wait in the wings for when he needs us.
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He will be worried about infecting you. And of course, about losing his retail job. π¦ I found have people’s messages about hygiene strangely comforting.
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Our govt has a package designed to help people who lose work through the virus, so hopefully he will be able to access benefits via that. But uncertainty is the new reality.
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Also, any news from Sarah?
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We’ve had brief chats on Instagram, but I don’t have any real info.
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I might have to join instagram. Eek. Sarah will be really worried for her mum of course.
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We messaged yesterday, and she said her mum is ok at the moment.
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Thanks for the update.
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Thank goodness for parties like these – otherwise I would be bereft!
It is strange that just a month ago, Singapore was among the first few places to begin taking extreme measures. And now, countries from all over the world have followed suit. Not the kind of shared experience one would hope for though.
Was chatting with Dad & Mom over dessert last night and he asked an interesting question: among the items that seem to be grabbed and stockpiled all over the world, Toilet Paper seems to be the one common item – we wondered why that might be.
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I can’t fathom toilet paper panic-buying either! To be honest, I get very angry at any sort of hoarding. It is so selfish.
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The sad thing is I don’t think most people understand the consequences of their actions. They respond in fear to “news” & off they go.
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I suspect you are right. βΉοΈ
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Those of us who have built up a social community through blogging are luckier than most in this new reality of self-isolation …. and now we have virtual tea parties! Even when the world has become that much scarier, we have small pleasures to look forward to π
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That’s how I feel too. The downside is that when bloggers disappear from WP for any length of time, we worry just the same but don’t have the means to find out if they are ok.
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So very true. We all know a few of those.
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What a wonderful idea. π
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Thank you. Pop by if you can; there will be plenty to go round.
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I feel like a bumblebee looking forward to your virtual tea party what with the teasing flowers and honey. ππ
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Ooh, honey and flowers! Canβt wait. Life is so strange at the moment.
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I’ll come! Please.
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Yay. Tea or coffee??
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Oh, coffee please. Small, strong and black. I’m really motivated to join in by offering a party of my own. But two people wading through a whole cake when exercise is becoming difficult is quite a challenge. Have you got a good recipe for a sugarless, fatless, calorie-free and tasty cake? π
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I know what you mean! I’ll be giving most of the cake to neighbours and only made a few of the tarts.
One strong black coffee coming up!
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Great, thanks. I’ll reciprocate on Saturday
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When you wrote this, I was still sitting in the car on our trip back to Switzerland, so I guess it should be about now that I can join you all for either a quick espresso or a big mug of Earl Grey tea…. a beautiful and inviting compo to this post. Cheers to you and your guests π―βπ₯§
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What a lovely thought! Must be sure to drop by, Su. Virtually, of course… or maybe even virtuously π π
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