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A realistic timetable - for once

The following was my timetable for a tea party for 16 to be held on a Saturday afternoon beginning at 1pm (and don’t email me telling me a true tea party starts at 4; people have families and obligations, so 1 o’clock worked best):

 

Three weeks before:

  • Design and mail (yes, mail) out invitations

Mon-Wed:

  • Pour over tea party websites, decide what to have

Tuesday:

  • Decide what parts of the house needed to be cleaned

Wednesday:

  • Make list of things to buy, including table linens and china
  • Drive to cousin Karen’s house to borrow 8 teacups, saucers, and plates

Thursday:

  • Vacuum
  • Buy ingredients; fruit tarts too expensive, look for alternatives
  • Make chicken salad
  • Hard-boil eggs
  • Set up dining room (move dining room table, set up tea table)

Friday:

  • Buy hat materials
  • Pick up niece at train station
  • Make hats (with niece)
  • Make mini Black Forest Soufflé cakes

Saturday:

  • Make egg salad
  • Make cucumber filling
  • Make sandwiches
  • Prepare alternative to fruit tarts
  • Set tables
  • Get dressed
  • Wait 30 minutes for everyone to show up late
  • Serve tea
  • Have a wonderful time

 

I forgot to buy flowers, which I got Saturday morning.

I can make that dish in three minutes – NOT!!

 

“Little sandwiches” does not mean “little work”

 

Irish scones at an English Tea

 

I’ll have one of those, one of those, and one of those (please)

 

How ‘bout a cuppa?

 

Thanks so much for coming

 

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