Check out this guide for how to do it right:
https://everydaywanderer.com/english-afternoon-tea-7-rules-of-etiquette

It’s probably wrong to give your personally prepared afternoon tea a 5 star rating. But golly, it was a fun night out. The Johnson County Public Library system hosts an annual adult spelling bee contest for raising awareness of adult literacy in the county. It’s a get-dressed-up-as-a-theme kind of thing and try to spell impossible words! Luckily, I have smarty-pants friends like Denise and Sarah who can spell well! Sausage rolls, curried chicken salad sandwiches, scones, eclairs and brownies were on our menu and I made enough to share with other contestants and audience members! What a fun time! Sarah, whose side hustle is a Steeped Tea business, provided some delicious white tea to compliment our meal.

https://www.facebook.com/SteepedSarah/
https://www.pageafterpage.org/adult-spelling-bee

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Like the years before, this delightful afternoon tea is a highlight of my year and a sweet treat for my birthday month (thank you Nick!). We always sit with strangers who easily fall into conversations of all sorts as we sip the hour of tea away. This year, the scones were yummy, sandwiches spot-on and the dessert was served as your choice of a piece of cake or bread puddingy type treat. I tried a new tea – Mrs. Croft, which was good, but I was glad to switch back to my Bingley’s tea standby – Marianne’s Wild Abandon! I always pick up a box or two from the Shoppes of Meryton to take home with me. The event’s setting at historic Locust Grove is perfect for a Kentucky version of a Regency era afternoon…
http://jasnalouisville.com/

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One of the nicest things Nick can do for me is take me out twice in my birthday month for afternoon tea!! This tea was on the day after my 47th birthday last summer. Tasty treat!

https://www.facebook.com/TinasTraditionalColumbus/

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Although you can only tour the “unsinkable” Molly Brown’s home in Denver, it’s a place I’d love to have an afternoon tea. Perhaps one day, eh?
https://mollybrown.org/

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I like sugar with my tea. On Turkish Airlines, you’re guaranteed to be given sugar whenever you order tea. I like that. I had wonderful Turkish black tea several times on our flight to and from Berlin. Nick loved the “digest ease tea,” a fennel, anise and caraway mixture and thought it tasted wonderful. The airport lounge in Istanbul also served wonderful tea. Well done to Turkish Airlines. I hope we find the steal of a deal we had on these tix for another flight on Turkish Airlines!!

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Pretty much the same event as I attended in Carmel, IN in 2017. Same menu. Tina hosted like she did the year before, and her stories of her grandmother being a scullery maid was a nice touch – and her showing her grandmother’s ‘evening out’ dress was also lovely again to see. Would I do this event again? Maybe…I do love me some Downton Abbey!
https://www.tinastraditional.com/

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Although Nick didn’t order the afternoon tea tray with me, he helped me finish off mine — which included tasty sandwiches, a divine scone and a few sweet treats! This is in the suburbs of Calgary and we were thankful for the rental car. Service was nice – the only thing I thought could use some improvement was tea selection. Too many froo-froo flavored tea choices. But still delicious and I’d go back again someday.

thedovesnest.ca

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Much like the festival in earlier years, we celebrated my 45th birthday at the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville. Much to my heart’s delight. They have served my favorite tea of all time “Marianne’s Wild Abandon” by Bingley Teas. You *never* go wrong with a cup of this tea!

Part of the fun is sitting with two strangers who dearly love Jane Austen as much as you do!

http://jasnalouisville.com/
http://www.bingleysteas.com/

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