All things British

[PathFinder17]

Hi all,

There are so many TV shows I used to watch, now I find there's not much on. If you like detective/thrillers, then "Spooks" (about MI5 agents) is great and there's a new comedy about a hospital called "Green Wing".

One of my favourite comedies has to be "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em", not sure if it's ever aired outside the UK, but it's great.

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

Hi all,

There are so many TV shows I used to watch, now I find there's not much on. If you like detective/thrillers, then "Spooks" (about MI5 agents) is great and there's a new comedy about a hospital called "Green Wing".

One of my favourite comedies has to be "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em", not sure if it's ever aired outside the UK, but it's great.

Excuse meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee your Domlyness of course we do.

Betttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttty

 

[shy slave]

I'm looking for Wire in the Blood... sounds like something I'd really, really like.

And Robson Green who stars in it, is easy on the eye too

 

[A Desert Rose]

And Robson Green who stars in it, is easy on the eye too

And so is Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh.

Oh, so sexy.

 

[catalina_francisco]

LOL, caught a repeat episode of Vicar of Dibley tonight which as usual was great, but Dawn French ended perfectly with one of her jokes which went something like this:

"Superman was flying over the city when he looked down and saw Wonder Woman spread eagled and naked on top of a building. Having always fancied her he swooped down and did the business in true swift and strong Superman style, then flew off again. The Invisible Man jumped up as Wonder Woman exclaimed, 'What was that?!!'

'I don't know,' he replied, 'but it sure hurt a lot'!!

Of course, the following dialogue only added to the scene....have to love that woman.

Catalina

 

[A Desert Rose]

Someone explain to me the difference between tea and high tea. Is tea like supper? Or is it just an afternoon snack thing? And when exactly is tea time? Is it 4pm or 3pm or what? Do you do tea in place of lunch?

Maybe I could google this but I've got to leave for the day.

Thank you, in advance.

 

[shy slave]

Someone explain to me the difference between tea and high tea. Is tea like supper? Or is it just an afternoon snack thing? And when exactly is tea time? Is it 4pm or 3pm or what? Do you do tea in place of lunch?

Maybe I could google this but I've got to leave for the day.

Thank you, in advance.

Oh ADR this made me laugh out loud.

I have tried to explain this to Andantes kids but they just take the piss out of me when we meet.

High Tea is a very old fashioned way of saying afternoon tea, which is about 4pm with tea and cakes.
Class structure has broken down alot but years ago only posh people had 'high tea.' The film Mary Poppins has this kind of tea.
If you were born into the upper classes or upper middle classes you moved from nursery tea, which was milk and sandwiches, to high tea. A sort of rite of passage.

Its been a long time since I heard anyone talk about high tea, although I went to a school once where we learnt how to serve and converse during high tea. It was part of the school lessons!!

Tea is traditionally a working class thing, which used to be around 5pm. Now its a common word for an evening meal, unless your going out for a meal and then its usually referred to as 'dinner.'

When I met Andante it was complicated when I asked him 'what he wanted for tea' especially as he doesn't drink the stuff lol

No-one in Britain gets confused between tea (food) and tea (drink), yet when I go to Denmark I stick to words like 'eat' and 'meal,' I have discovered its easier lol

Of course, now I have mentioned the class structure people from all over the UK who come here will tell me it does not exist anymore, its not as defined as it used to be, but its there.

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

Oh ADR this made me laugh out loud.

I have tried to explain this to Andantes kids but they just take the piss out of me when we meet.

High Tea is a very old fashioned way of saying afternoon tea, which is about 4pm with tea and cakes.
Class structure has broken down alot but years ago only posh people had 'high tea.' The film Mary Poppins has this kind of tea.
If you were born into the upper classes or upper middle classes you moved from nursery tea, which was milk and sandwiches, to high tea. A sort of rite of passage.

Its been a long time since I heard anyone talk about high tea, although I went to a school once where we learnt how to serve and converse during high tea. It was part of the school lessons!!

Tea is traditionally a working class thing, which used to be around 5pm. Now its a common word for an evening meal, unless your going out for a meal and then its usually referred to as 'dinner.'

When I met Andante it was complicated when I asked him 'what he wanted for tea' especially as he doesn't drink the stuff lol

No-one in Britain gets confused between tea (food) and tea (drink), yet when I go to Denmark I stick to words like 'eat' and 'meal,' I have discovered its easier lol

Of course, now I have mentioned the class structure people from all over the UK who come here will tell me it does not exist anymore, its not as defined as it used to be, but its there.

High Tea ROCKS

I am not actually convict stock however am related to the wife of Bush Ranger Ned Kelly ...................good girl gone bad ........go figure.........smiles. I aspire to the occasional High Tea. Its waaaaaaaaaaaay to much work to do at home ( did it once for my mom's friends many years ago ). The best I have had was at the old Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong ...........however I have seen pictures of the High Tea served at Raffles Hotel in Singapore and that looks worthy of aspiring to just for the experience. I wonder if there is a good one in SanFrancisco , I have a Domme friend there who would definately accompany me ...............smiles

 

[A Desert Rose]

I had to finally google the difference between a quid and a pound. Found out there's no difference. Kinda like calling a dollar, a buck here.

So, ladies, what kind of tea do you prefer to drink? What's the most popular type in your respective countries?

If tea is a meal, then tea and cakes is a meal? Clarify for this dimwitted person, please.

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

ohhh dammit ADR I thought ALL REAL submissives were geneticly predisposed to serving high tea while simultaneously giving......nvm

.................goes off to contemplate

 

[A Desert Rose]

ohhh dammit ADR I thought ALL REAL submissives were geneticly predisposed to serving high tea while simultaneously giving......nvm

.................goes off to contemplate

That post is absolutely no help in understanding tea stuff. I hope you realize that.

LOL

However, I'm welcome to training on serving tea and the other simultaneous stuff... fill me in, please.

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

That post is absolutely no help in understanding tea stuff. I hope you realize that.

LOL

However, I'm welcome to training on serving tea and the other simultaneous stuff... fill me in, please.

Tea as a beverage

Cup of tea ( variety to your taste )

High Tea (Average)

Usually a tiered serving platter

Bottom tier : finger sandwiches ( cucumber ,smoked salmon, capers, ham etc)
2nd tier :miniature scones served warm with clotted cream and jam ( jelly )
3rd tier : tiny cakes and french pastries
okay nice stuff near Miss ADR suitable for this part

All the above served with tea as a beverage ( your choice )or coffee , usually with linen napery, fine china and silver flatware.

Its all a very fussy affair made to look effortless.

Smart chickens like me that aren't into real tea (as a beverage) order a Long Island Tea half way through the 'event'..........

soooooooooooooo now for the good part Miss ADR

Long Island Tea
Ingredients:

* 1 part Vodka
* 1 part Tequila
* 1 part Rum
* 1 part Gin
* 1 part Triple sec
* 1 1/2 part Sour mix
* 1 splash Coca-Cola

Mixing instructions:

Mix ingredients together over ice in a glass. Pour into shaker and give ONE brisk shake. Pour back into glass and make sure there is a touch of fizz at the top. Garnish with lemon. Give Miss Rebecca a straw and prepare the gag !!!!

Tea as a meal
Just another name for the evening meal (dinner) as Miss Shy explained.

omg as far as the other stuff ummmn..........best ignore me ADR I was being delightfully crass

 

[shy slave]

If tea is a meal, then tea and cakes is a meal? Clarify for this dimwitted person, please.

Yes both meals, different types but still a meal lol

As for tea in the UK ordinary british tea or english breakfast tea are the most common.

I take my own tea bags with me to Denmark (honestly, how fucking british is that ) as finding a non fruit tea is just hard work.

But it is interesting when we go to a cafe and ask for a mug of hot water ROFL

Actually having a hot drink with meal does sometimes provoke odd looks and the occasional comment *sigh*

I never knew tea could be complicated.

But I understand the money thing, I had to google the word 'greenback' as I was clueless about what it meant.


All countries are pretty weird in their own way
We speak the same language yet we don't lol

 

[shy slave]

Long Island Tea

I only heard of that two years ago, and even then I had drunk two before I was told it has alcohol in it.

I thought it was American for iced tea, God I felt stupid lol

 

[bronntanas]

Peasant stock from Ireland here...

It's basically the same at home. In working class families, tea is the evening meal, and it's usually not as "heavy" as American dinners. (I noticed that both in the US and in Canada.) We tend to have bigger lunches and breakfasts. (except me, I tend to have bigger everything!) We do have the more formal teas sometimes, the "high tea" mentioned above but it's not too often anymore. My only experience is the Sunday teas that the Altar Guild had to serve at, and the ones at my Gran's house on the sunday's that there was nothing at the church. It's funny, when I'm running around with my buds from school and work and stuff (I'm in Canada now) I have dinner. But at home, I still have tea.

 

[A Desert Rose]

Peasant stock from Ireland here...

It's basically the same at home. In working class families, tea is the evening meal, and it's usually not as "heavy" as American dinners. (I noticed that both in the US and in Canada.) We tend to have bigger lunches and breakfasts. (except me, I tend to have bigger everything!) We do have the more formal teas sometimes, the "high tea" mentioned above but it's not too often anymore. My only experience is the Sunday teas that the Altar Guild had to serve at, and the ones at my Gran's house on the sunday's that there was nothing at the church. It's funny, when I'm running around with my buds from school and work and stuff (I'm in Canada now) I have dinner. But at home, I still have tea.

OMG... you guys all write the most interesting stuff!!! I so want to see the Isle's... Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland. And you make me yearn for it all the more when I read things like this.

When I was in BC, a couple of years ago (meeting some real life online friends for the first time, btw) we had tea. It was late afternoon and it was tea and scones. Then we also ate again later on.

 

[bronntanas]

You're in Vegas area, right? If you want some major spoilage, the Four Seasons there does a high tea that's done up pretty good. One lump or two, M'lady I went with some friends once, and they wore the longer dresses and the gloves and hats and stuff. And since I was asked sort of nicely I wore my dress kilt and dinner jacket. Well, that is if you can count "Wear it or else, Kilt Man!" as asking nicely.

 

[A Desert Rose]

You're in Vegas area, right? If you want some major spoilage, the Four Seasons there does a high tea that's done up pretty good. One lump or two, M'lady I went with some friends once, and they wore the longer dresses and the gloves and hats and stuff. And since I was asked sort of nicely I wore my dress kilt and dinner jacket. Well, that is if you can count "Wear it or else, Kilt Man!" as asking nicely.

Holy cow!! I had no idea and yes, I live here... LOL too funny.

Well, I will be there, no doubt about it. Maybe take my daughter when she gets back from her dig... (archeological dig, for those who don't know the digger's lingo.)

Geeeze, I'd love to see you in a kilt, man. LOL I bet you're soooo cool, even out of the kilt. (Kilt Man sounds sooooo snowy... was it her demand? LOL)

 

[bronntanas]

Awe.... Er, She usually preferred me OUT of the kilt, but she did have some kilt appreciation too.

 

[A Desert Rose]

Awe.... Er, She usually preferred me OUT of the kilt, but she did have some kilt appreciation too.

Dontcha just love her? She's a real gem and a good person.

 

[bronntanas]

EEK! I just realized that reads like snowy and I are an item. The part about her liking me out of it, I mean. It was actually reference to an embarrassing pic she grabbed of me the other day at my rugby game. See, I may have dropped trou a little bit when I thought no-one was looking... There was a fistfight going on, on the field, and I took the oppurtunity to adjust things while no one was looking....

She's a sweetheart and a very good friend.

 

[catalina_francisco]

When I met Andante it was complicated when I asked him 'what he wanted for tea' especially as he doesn't drink the stuff lol

No-one in Britain gets confused between tea (food) and tea (drink), yet when I go to Denmark I stick to words like 'eat' and 'meal,' I have discovered its easier lol

LOL, I had the same problem and as I still slip sometimes, I get the inevitable lecture about it being dinner, not tea and that he cannot understand why it would be called tea etc., etc., etc., and questioning if I really know what I am talking about. I don't go into the prevalence here to call prescriptions, recipes...took me awhile to connect what everyone was meaning as I naturally thought of cooking whenever anyone said it.

Catalina

 

[snowy ciara]

Dontcha just love her? She's a real gem and a good person.

EEK! I just realized that reads like snowy and I are an item. The part about her liking me out of it, I mean. It was actually reference to an embarrassing pic she grabbed of me the other day at my rugby game. See, I may have dropped trou a little bit when I thought no-one was looking... There was a fistfight going on, on the field, and I took the oppurtunity to adjust things while no one was looking....

She's a sweetheart and a very good friend.

Thank you both. You made my day just now.

Bronn, I couldn't help the pic thing; you have such a cute butt and it was all hangin' out there!

In my half asleep state, I was just thinking about when Ms. Shadowsdream and her slave were in Vegas and got to play with ADR.... And then I was thinking it'd be fun to put bronn in kilt and fluffy pirate shirt and do tea with all of you.

 

[graceanne]

Long Island Tea

I only heard of that two years ago, and even then I had drunk two before I was told it has alcohol in it.

I thought it was American for iced tea, God I felt stupid lol

Two long islands? I bet you felt more than stupid. The last time I had two long island's I was still having headrushes two days later. Of course the blowjob (a drink, you pervs) I had didn't help.

 

[chris9]

And so is Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh.

Oh, so sexy.

Colin Firth stars in Wire in the Blood? If that's no reason to watch it, there's none. Need to go check it out.