A Triumphant Return Home ......

Oh my goodness, Eric and the ever fragrant Alice arrived home safe and sound from Dawlish yesterday afternoon at around four o'clock, looking sun kissed and full of sea air ...... and their timing couldn't have been more perfect .........

..... especially when they came bearing gifts of a truly wonderful, comestible kind, to wit a Gay's cream tea platter. Poor Darrell was almost beside himself of a Mary Berry type nature, on seeing the very ample pot of real life, Devonshire clotted cream.  It was the kind of quintessential English tea treat dreams are made of he sighed. Sometimes I think he's on a completely different planet to the rest of us!

There then ensued a good humoured age old scone debate, as to what goes on the baked delicacy first, the jam (strawberry as ever) or the cream.  We are all very much of the jam first, cream second brigade, with a little (real) butter on scone first .......

However, Eric in his infinite wisdom declared he could very easily be tempted and swayed towards a layered combo of butter, jam, cream and then another small dollop of jam bang smack in the middle of said top cream layer! What is he like?

It goes without saying that it was a glorious welcome home for Eric and Alice, with much contented nomming. Me thinks we ought to be sending them off to Devon a little more often, for the obvious reasons, unless of course Evesham gets it very own Gay's!