Yes indeed…you read correctly. For Mum’s combined birthday and Xmas present we took her to the Ritz for afternoon tea. I must admit I wasn’t overly bothered about going when Tasha initially mentioned it but I thought that I should as it is my Mum!! And I’m really glad that I did go as well, it was a really good experience and we all enjoyed it immensely.
There was a bit of doubt to the day because of the snow we’ve been experiencing but the roads to London as expected were fine and we drove straight up there at 11.30am. I found somewhere to park just off Green Park and as we were early we went and looked around Fortnum & Mason’s, that was an experience in its own right! Like walking into Harrods, and the same price! But it was interesting to wander around and there was a sale point on so we got a couple of things for Xmas presents.
We then went to the Ritz and Mum and Tash took their time exploring the toilets and coming out with souvenir tissues…no I’m not joking.
The sitting was due to start at 1.30pm but we were ushered in around 1.20pm and took photos and all that and took in the surroundings. We were in the Palm restaurant which was cosy but absolutely lovely. Choice of loads of teas, I went for one which smelled of smoke and didn’t it just, stank the place out but I liked it! We were then bombarded with sandwiches (refilled all the time), scones (lovely) and tit bit cakes. Also had someone come round offer Lemon cake as well…we had everything! Quite surprisingly there was too much and we left some of it, including a really rick dark chocolate cake!
We then walked around a bit, there was no pressure or snobbery and it was really pleasant. Drove home and then had some coffee at Mum’s and she told Derek all about it.
I think that was a very successful present! I enjoyed it anyway and we’ll now start thinking of the next place to go to!
No comments:
Post a Comment