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31/08/2010

Tea At The Ritz, Being Part One of Two Blogs, ‘In the Last Week Frank Has Left the House’

Last Tuesday it was my mum’s fiftieth birthday (I’m sure she appreciates my informing the Internet of this fact). Because she is Mum, and a secret Mrs. Bucket, my immediate family plus one grandmother took a trip to London. To The Ritz Hotel. For afternoon tea… At half seven in the evening. Apparently you have to… Continue reading

August 2010, Holidays, My Family and Other Animals, Photogenius

1906, afternoon tea, Covent Garden, England, Indifferent Ignorance, London, powder rooms, silver teapots, silver-topped sanitary towel bins, tea at The Ritz, The Ritz Hotel

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Tea At The Ritz, Being Part One of Two Blogs, ‘In the Last Week Frank Has Left the House’