hrj

I am not much younger than you, but I never had tea partites as a child. I knew of the concept, as kids in books did it, but I never understood the point. Note that I never saw my mother or her friends drink tea, so perhaps it is a class thing? Mom a single parent and was a second generation American with Finish parents. She drank coffe with breakfast and beer after work. The tea parties in books were much more formal affairs than anything I had ever seen in person, and totally uninteresting to me. (I didn't find out that tea is sometimes accompanied by scones with jam and cream till I was in Australia, or it would have been interesting, at least the food part! I still rarely drink tea.)