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I'm loving London life!

We're having a grand old time in London. Except the weather has not been very kind. 'It's fresh Ma'am'   the hotel doormen with the black bowler hats would tell me  every morning. 'Fresh!!!! It's friggin freezing'  this Aussie  would reply.  There is just something about a man in a bowler hat  that brings out the inner Cockney mongrel in me. 'Yes Ma'am!'   they would reply.  They are recruited for their politeness. They win. Yesterday Mr Wren and I found ourselves with a rare London afternoon to ourselves. We were walking along the Embankment, on our way to Westminster, to see the Prime Minister.  Somehow it felt important to go and find out what on earth was going on with this Brexit EU referendum that everyone is talking about. When the heavens opened. We were torn, one one hand we were only a hop, skip and a jump from Downing Street,  on the other hand we were getting wet, real wet. Faced with the sam...

The Great Afternoon Tea Treat

"Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, that I love London Town "... Afternoon Tea! The best Afternoon Teas are a grand occasion... a special event to be lingered over, with time to savour. To delight in the cute exotic sandwiches, to marvel at the fancy cakes, to indulge in the scones and clotted cream, but most of all to enjoy the company of friends or family...       The best Afternoon Teas have fine tableware, tea strainers, fresh flowers and of course sugar lumps! Did you know? The tradition of the English Afternoon Tea comes from one of HM Queen Victoria's ladies in waiting Anna, seventh Dutchess of Bedford (1783 - 1857) In her day, being posh she would have eaten a huge breakfast, very little lunch and then an interminably long wait until dinner. She describes a "sinking feeling" in late afternoon and so one day she instructed her Butler to bring her Afternoon Tea with cakes in her boudoir.... ...