Tea? (Part 1)

[Arch]

Perhaps, Speicher, you need a trolley for your cakes - like what you get in post hotels at teatime...

 

[Renard]

Perhaps, Speicher, you need a trolley for your cakes - like what you get in post hotels at teatime...

And one of those three tiered plates with doilys. I did have the pleasure of afternoon tea at a posh tearoom recently and that was how it was presented.

 

[TheDoctor]

Perhaps, Speicher, you need a trolley for your cakes - like what you get in post hotels at teatime...

"Can I book a double room, a Guardian in the morning, breakfast in bed and a second-class stamp please. Thanks very much."

 

[Arch]

"Can I book a double room, a Guardian in the morning, breakfast in bed and a second-class stamp please. Thanks very much."

Drat my typing.


BJB, my dear late Tom once got as far as drawing a sketch for a design of a collapsible 3 tiered touring cake rack, to take cycle touring, and to impress others while brewing up outside my tent. It never made it to reality, but he thought it sort of summed me up - practical, but fond of dainties.

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

Drat my typing.


BJB, my dear late Tom once got as far as drawing a sketch for a design of a collapsible 3 tiered touring cake rack, to take cycle touring, and to impress others while brewing up outside my tent. It never made it to reality, but he thought it sort of summed me up - practical, but fond of dainties.

Tom?

 

[Arch]

Tom?

Yeah. Boyfriend. well, just generally best friend and soulmate. Died last year.

doesn't do justice to the feelings really.

But he did have some mad ideas

 

[Chuffy]

Drat my typing.


BJB, my dear late Tom once got as far as drawing a sketch for a design of a collapsible 3 tiered touring cake rack, to take cycle touring, and to impress others while brewing up outside my tent. It never made it to reality, but he thought it sort of summed me up - practical, but fond of dainties.

Also prone to collapsing and squashing your cheesy puffs.

 

[Arch]

Also prone to collapsing and squashing your cheesy puffs.

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

Yeah. Boyfriend. well, just generally best friend and soulmate. Died last year.

doesn't do justice to the feelings really.

But he did have some mad ideas

Aww Sorry to hear, Arch.

 

[Chuffy]

Fine invention though. I want to go camping now, just so's I can use one.

 

[Arch]

Fine invention though. I want to go camping now, just so's I can use one.

Indeed. We thought perhaps some sort of umbrella arrangement, so that it went down into a tube, but opened up to reveal three layers. I think the cakes would have to travel separately - you'd buy them at the last shop before you pitched camp I suppose. Then all you need is to get your camping bone china teapot out, boil the kettle and you're away.

Here's a bike that sort of sums him up, the micro recumbent:

 

[TheDoctor]

Drat my typing.

it's obviously quicker than mine!

BJB, my dear late Tom once got as far as drawing a sketch for a design of a collapsible 3 tiered touring cake rack, to take cycle touring, and to impress others while brewing up outside my tent. It never made it to reality, but he thought it sort of summed me up - practical, but fond of dainties.

I can see that working. Either fit hinges so the 'plate' parts fold down in two halves, or a lightwieght version using ripstop nylon or such like and an umbrella type mechanism to collapse the 'plates'.

An arrangement where the plates fan out in interlocking sections would be a bit bulkier, but would look pretty cool.

*drifts off into design and engineering reverie*

 

[Arch]

An arrangement where the plates fan out in interlocking sections would be a bit bulkier, but would look pretty cool.

*drifts off into design and engineering reverie*

Oh yes. I'm thinking, a bit like those vegetable steamer things that look like satellite dishes?

 

[TheDoctor]

Indeed. We thought perhaps some sort of umbrella arrangement, so that it went down into a tube, but opened up to reveal three layers. I think the cakes would have to travel separately - you'd buy them at the last shop before you pitched camp I suppose. Then all you need is to get your camping bone china teapot out, boil the kettle and you're away.

Here's a bike that sort of sums him up, the micro recumbent:

Anyone who'd ride that is worthy of adulation.

 

[Renard]

Oh yes. I'm thinking, a bit like those vegetable steamer things that look like satellite dishes?

That was the inspiration behind the satellite laser in 'Diamonds are forever', maybe