I had a late tea, at 5pm. After a busy day of this and that, I finally was able to settle down with a bit of supper and then a cup of Yorkshire Gold tea. Tuesday I made cranberry scones, so had one with blackberry jelly with my tea today.

Snowing again now at almost 6:30pm, and the temp is dropping. Last night it got down to 15 degrees, my comforter felt so good!

I got my new cup in the mail today! so I used it as soon as I could. :) It really is pretty, with so much detail.

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Schoolhouse- Your new cup is beautiful! Those scones look good, too :)

Sorry to see that you're getting the cold weather, we had earlier. Up to 40 today (heat wave LOL) but supposed to be back to snow by the middle of next week.

Stay warm and enjoy your tea!

That is such a pretty cup! My mother has many tea cups I will eventually inherit so I have not bought any. I usually drink tea from my vintage mugs.
Today I had mine with some fudgy brownies I made yesterday. It was very cold here too last night, and cold all day. The big "melt down" comes tomorrow and Saturday! I checked my veg beds today as best as I could. Their area is still icy and I fell but the kale looked good and it was warm in their enclosures. I may get to have carrot cake next week for tea!

LL, the weather has been crazy here too. Had a foot of snow the other night on top of frozen slushy ground and today it's warm and almost spring like.
Nothing fancy today, just a cup of orange pekoe and a couple of cranberry biscuits while I have a quick look through 'The Resilient Gardener' by Carol Deppe. I've heard such good reviews on this book I had to order it, 7 days from Amazon.ca now that's what I call great service.

Christine, such a pretty cup, I only have a few nice cups and saucers, in Royal Albert a couple in the Trillium and Dogwood patterns, my dinner set is 'Val Dor', my daughter has the Royal Albert 'Silver Birches' dinnerware she inherited from DH's mom.
I have a few other nice ones of DH's moms and a couple I picked up here and there.

Has anyone have a special cup and saucer with a little story to go with it, here's mine.

I had a neighbor who over the years became a very dear friend, she was like a mom to me. Being she was on her own I used to slip over and have tea with her every afternoon and sometimes after supper. She always served me tea in this very pretty cup, it had a couple of chips in it but I thought it was just about the prettiest cup and saucer I'd ever seen and said so often. When she went into a nursing home because of her health one of her daughter brought it over saying mom wants you to have this, I very touched by the gesture, I look at it often but have never used it. I thought of having the chip fixed but I think I'll leave it just the way it is. Maybe one day I'll have my tea in it again.

Annette

Annette, it's beautiful. I've never seen a pattern like that, how special and a special story to go with it. The other Royal Albert patterns you spoke of I remember seeing when I was doing research on the Country Scenes series of cups. I even have one site bookmarked so I can refer back to the many different patterns available.

Me, I don't really have any stories about my cups. But I guess when I look at my Luster Ware collection, I have to think fondly of my sister-in-law who lives in California; because she is not the "froo-froo" type if you know what I mean, but she knew I liked tea cups. So every Christmas for several years she would buy one or two cups from an antique shop and mail them for Christmas. It was like opening up a treasure chest to me. Lisa actually had good taste when it came to tea cups! Then, they stopped coming; I finally asked why some years later and she said the shop had gone out of business. Now I get body lotion or some such again. ha.

Fudgy brownies? Mmmmm. Just what I don't need. :) Well, I hope you didn't hurt yourself when you fell. If so, that kale and the carrot cake better taste good!

I'm a little apprehensive tonight all alone. This afternoon, a murder took place not far from here on a road I'm very familiar with. Some guy shot and killed his parents on the family farm, and he is still at large. The sheriff said he is "armed and dangerous"(!) This was at 3pm.
I'm sure he is far away, gone in the opposite direction but the way the world is now days you never know. I have both the front porch and the back porch lights on. Just awhile ago I had to take the dog out, but we only walked right around the back yard - no further!

Christine, we had a similar situation up here not too long ago, the father who died was a friend of my boys when they were young. So hard to understand why these things happen. Don't let your guard down until the whole situation is in hand.

On a brighter note, just for the heck of it I went on ebay to look at cups and saucers, Whoo Hoo I found a dessert plate that goes with my cup and saucer needless to say I bought it :) I wish I had written down when this china was made, somewhere between the 30's and 50's.

LL, see what happens when I stop in for a cup of tea, one thing leads to another. I'll post a picture of the plate when it gets here or I just might break down and use these pieces when I drop in for tea one day :)

This morning the paper says they think he is in West Virginia.

That plate was meant to be yours Annette. Please do use them, your friend would want you to enjoy the teacup. What a pretty tea set that will make.

I blame LL for my renewed interest in tea and my china, too!
See everyone next Thursday.

LOL! I'm happy to be the one responsible for anyone's recent (or renewed) interest in tea...or buying more tea cups and saucer or any tea related products :)

Schoolhouse- Be careful! Crazy people on the loose in nothing to take lightly. I'm glad it sounds like he's headed for West Virginia.

Annette- Your china is beautiful! I'm so glad you found a matching piece and what a wonderful story to go with them.

I have a very pretty set of china (service for 8) that I got years ago, from a mail order catalog. It's held up very well and I really like it, but my favorite thing about it...my grandmother bought it for me, after we had looked through the catalog and I mentioned how pretty it was. She was not one to 'throw her money away' but she thought I needed a nice set of china. Every time I look at it, I think of her....and that's what makes it really special! :)

GGG- Be careful on that ice. The trick is to take baby steps and kind of shuffle your feet. It's very similar to how I have to walk, when feeding the kitties, or they'll trip you for sure. Carrot cake sounds good, but so does that fudgy brownie! LOL

My cup and saucer was made by Salisbury, I did a bit more searching last night and found out there are three more besides the one I have. One features plums, one apples and one strawberries. Each one of these cups and saucers has a matching salad plate with the same design.

Annette

Uh-oh. I see three more cups and dessert plates in Annette's future. How can you resist? :)