You might say that we are old before our time but Anna & I love nothing more than to spend our lunch break in this little tea room round the corner from where we work - & yes it just happens to be located in the City Museum thnkyoo very much! It doesn't bother us that the average age of a tea room dweller is probably approaching the BIG 90. They do tea & 2 slices of toast for £1.20 for God's sake & I haven't even begun to describe the size of the cake portions! The fact of the matter is we love our food - its a sad state of affairs wen u realise u wud much rather spend a tenner on a realli great meal than that fab pair of shoes. The shoes will only be worn once after all & then discarded to the very bak of the wardrobe as you realise you can't manage more than a few steps wearing them. It's probably this shared outlook & understanding that makes us so close! Oh & our joint ambition to sneak into a 'classic hollywood' OAP screening at our local cinema. I mean wot with the reduced ticket price, intermission (!) & free tea & biscuits at half time - who could turn down this oppurtunity?
It was not until we invited James a male work colleague to our weekly tea room outing that we realised that maybe this behaviour wasn't strictly the norm! He looked on half in amazement half in amusement as we sipped our tea with our little finger stuck out & sat there rather quietly gazing around in horror at the framed pictures of fluffy cats, the tea room lady bustling round in her pinny & the distinctly overpowering smell of lavender. "I didn't realise you were such ladies" he exclaimed & yes i'd like to think that attending a tea room brings about a certain sophistication in oneself!
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