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A walk in Callander powered by scones
Two days ago, hoping for a spot of sunshine, I checked the BBC weather website and discovered that the town of Callander was going to be bathed in sunshine all afternoon. The forecast promised me a...
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Fruit cake and fruit scones
In a previous post about the tasty contents of my Christmas box, I missed out the fruit cake component because I hadn’t yet tried it. I can now report that the cake has been consumed, and slipped down...
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Twinings Yunnan Tea
I recently received an email from a company offering to send me some free Twinings tea of my choice to review. Looking in the kitchen tea cupboard, I observed that there were already 7 boxes of...
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Twinings English Breakfast: organic teabag or loose leaf?
In the second of my Twinings free tea tasting posts I would like to introduce that stalwart of British tea culture: English Breakfast. English Breakfast is a blended tea, the contents usually being...
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Galaxy chocolate review
After my post about the Malteaster Bunny, fellow blogger, David, suggested I do a comparison of Galaxy chocolate bars. I’m not a huge fan of Galaxy chocolate, so this is probably not something I would...
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Pillars of Hercules
After a trip into the local metropolis of Perth for a bit of shopping the other morning, delightful assistant no.1 and I popped into the estimable Loch Leven’s Larder for a little luncheon. There were...
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Twinings Ceylon Orange Pekoe Tea
In my final Twinings free tea tasting review, I present the delightfully named Ceylon Orange Pekoe: The term ‘orange pekoe’ refers not to the flavour or colour of the tea, but to the grading of the tea...
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Baking Mad with hot cross scones
Last week I received rather a lovely Easter gift, in the form of several products from the Baking Mad website. If you like eating, baking or just looking at pictures of delicious goodies, you might...
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English Garden Tea
Being rather partial to a tearoom, I used to think I really ought to aim to open one of my own. Then I realised that if I was providing tasty fare to the hungry customer, I wouldn’t be sitting at a...
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Balmakewan
If you happen to be in Scotland driving along the A90, the main road between Dundee and Aberdeen, you might be surprised by the dearth of good eateries along this busy route. However, about halfway...
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Beyond Dull
Continuing on from my previous post, we arrived at the House of Menzies and tootled indoors out of the rain in search of a little luncheon. From the outside of the building, which was constructed in...
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Popcorn Tea
A few posts ago I mentioned popcorn tea, and several blogging chums commented on this curious phenomenon. I first came across it under this name at a tearoom in the small Scottish town of Lanark, where...
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Sometimes bad news is good news
When you’re trying to write something that’s proving very awkward, blogging can be a great respite. Today I’ve been attempting to rewrite the synopsis of my first novel, which has been something of a...
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Birdhouse Bakery, Muthill
Quite a while ago I drove through the village of Muthill in Perthshire and noticed a very interesting looking establishment: Birdhouse Bakery: a bakery that looked to me enticingly like a tearoom. It...
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Afternoon tea for a royal baby
As you may be aware, a British royal baby is due to see the light of day in the middle of July this year, first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge playing at...
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A good day for cherubs
As promised in my last post, I am about to present you with several skulls and a host of cherubs. They were found in Glamis churchyard, a most interesting and slightly spooky place, even in broad...
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Luncheon, Lomonds and Lime
I started writing this post weeks ago, got waylaid with other things and forgot to complete it; today I found it again and thought it was high time I finished it off. I began tapping it out just after...
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Gardenstown and Crovie
Following on from my last post, after luncheon at Duff House my delightful assistant and I tootled up to have a look at one or two of the small villages that are strung out along the Moray coast. Our...
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Hoots mon, it’s a wee laddie!
As you might be aware if you’ve seen any news bulletins from this part of the world lately, a small prince has appeared. Knit your own Royal baby with parents – pattern from from...
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Bollywood Dreams and a squashed croissant
There is a rather wonderful tearoom in Edinburgh called Eteaket. I had been wanting to visit this place for ages and I finally got round to it a couple of weeks ago when I popped down to the city. A...
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