Great Britain Adventure Get-Together

The Take Joy Society met this month at Edie's cabin to experience a British afternoon tea followed by a slideshow of her visit to England and Wales last September.  Edie shows us the box of Yorkshire tea she brought back from England. . . .

The table was set and waiting for us. . . .

We helped ourselves to tea. . . .

Edie served scones with Devonshire cream and various jams, cucumber sandwiches and Malvern Pudding. . . .

A Malvern Pudding recipe (lower right) can be found here.

We sang Happy Birthday to Debra and Carol who had birthday's this month.  I stuck a candle in their pudding. . . .

After our tea we gathered back on the comfortable couch and watched Edie's slideshow. . . .

Edie began her slideshow in the Cotswolds.  Here are a few of the photos her husband, Doug, took, which I photographed off the computer screen. . . .

There were many ancient churches to tour. . . .

Soon we were out in the countryside walking the public paths. . . .

Hadrian's Wall extends from the west coast to the east coast of England. . . .

In Cornwall Doug took this photo from the ruins of Tintagel Castle, the legendary castle of King Arthur. . . .

Wales had its own charms. . . .

They spent a week in the Lake District and toured Hill Top, Beatrix Potter's sanctuary. . . .

Upper photo:  Horse brasses surrounding the kitchen stove
Lower photo:  Beatrix's doll house

Interestingly, Edie has a collection of horse brasses that her mother brought back from visits to England. . . .

Part of their stay was with friends who took them on a tour of Oxford. . . .

Edie told us some of the different words that the English use such as boot for the trunk of the car and that they call our Interstate highways dual carriage ways.  HERE are some more words that are different.  She also gave us the different pronunciations for words such as aluminum and controversy.  HERE is a list of other words that are pronounced differently.  She also noted that the B&Bs did not provide wash cloths, nor did their friends, and many places used duvets in lieu of a top sheet.  We may not think of Britain as a foreign country because we both speak English, but it would be a good thing to brush up on their customs and different meanings for words besides needing to know their currency and measurements (metric) if you are ever able to visit.

We closed out the afternoon as Edie read to us from the new book she is working on. . . .

It will be titled "A Smudge of Smoke Against the Sky" and features a steamboat on the Chesapeake Bay in the 1920s.  She was inspired to write this story because the doors in her cabin were from a steamboat (see photo on wall behind her).  The key to a room on the steamboat hangs above one of the several doors in her cabin. . . . .

Her front door is also from the steamboat. . . .

Thank you, Edie, for hosting a delightful afternoon!

❤️Take Joy❤️