Big guns
To cheer up the Ukrainian women and children staying with us (they have been separated from their husbands/fathers/older brothers because Ukraine doesn't let men over 18 to leave the country), Helga wheeled out the big guns:
ENGLISH. AFTERNOON. TEA.
We learned a while ago that it works all the time with the locals here. They do not have anything similar and they love it. They do not have clotted cream here so Helga makes our own, luckily our neighbours have two cows. Helga asked me to unfriend and ban anyone how goes "ooooh, but butter is good enough, it's tasty too" on the spot (but I probably won't). I will allow some discussion of the relative merits of Cornish (first jam then cream) vs Devon (first cream than jam) way though.
If you ever are in this neck of the woods, remember proper English afternoon tea can get you very far with the locals here.
ENGLISH. AFTERNOON. TEA.
We learned a while ago that it works all the time with the locals here. They do not have anything similar and they love it. They do not have clotted cream here so Helga makes our own, luckily our neighbours have two cows. Helga asked me to unfriend and ban anyone how goes "ooooh, but butter is good enough, it's tasty too" on the spot (but I probably won't). I will allow some discussion of the relative merits of Cornish (first jam then cream) vs Devon (first cream than jam) way though.
If you ever are in this neck of the woods, remember proper English afternoon tea can get you very far with the locals here.