Having tea

I'm forgoing a focus post this week, as I'm feeling pretty focused right now.

However, approximately two weeks ago I went out to an actual afternoon tea with friends. I grew up in a place where tea is not a particularly popular beverage---and where the dressing up to go out for afternoon tea makes you an elitist asshat with notions of standing. As I now live in the Great Godless Liberal Utopia (as my family likes to call it), there's quite a few more folks with a penchant for dressing up to have tea and plenty of delicious, delicious foods.

It was really a fantastic time; about eight of us went to a small English teahouse in a nearby town. The teaware was beautiful (especially the warmers---a friend of mine definitely fell into teawarmer lust); I had some which had purple Sweet William and white morning-bells on it. Very lovely. The tea was quite nice. I'm rather spoiled by my own stockpile, but a good Darjeeling never goes amiss. Likewise, delicious---and I mean really damn delicious---savories and scones will also never go amiss.

On the whole, an excellent experience, and something I would like to do again (not to mention the idea of having teas at home).