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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: |
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Mon-Wed: |
- Pour over tea party websites, decide what to have
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Tuesday: |
- Decide what parts of the house needed to be cleaned
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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
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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)
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Friday: |
- Buy hat materials
- Pick up niece at train station
- Make hats (with niece)
- Make mini Black Forest Soufflé cakes
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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
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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
Tea party home |
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