We're All Going On A Tea Shop Crawl

Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of my first ever tea shoppe crawl. It was conceived by a renegade rocker who used to get drunk on a mere two pints. Pub crawls were therefore not for him but he still wanted to join in the crawling phenomenon (which was all the rage back then). So he decided that a more genteel approach was needed and thus the notion of the tea shop crawl was born.

So on 11 November 2002 we decided to hit every single tea shoppe in Cambridge, all gothed up to the nines. We took a few plushes with us although they would come to regret their presence as we bonded them all together with a scarf, so wasted were we.

As you can imagine there are quite a lot of tea shoppes in Cambridge and as bemused pensioners looked on, we binge-drank tea. We gave everything a try - English Breakfast Tea, Mint Tea, a vast array of Fruit Teas, Tetley Tea and probably Tesco Value Tea with a ridiculously high mark-up on it. We were responsible however - drinking and driving is wrong - and so the designated driver had to stick to decaf all afternoon.

Three hours into the session we started to crave food so teacakes and scones (with cream and jam) were brought out post-haste. The more we drank the more hyper we became, with everyone's inhibitions reducing. At one point someon made a pair of breasts with two scones and some jam. Crazy! The resulting caffeine high lasted for hours and there was much chattering of teeth come the end of the afternoon.

We went on to do two more before the concept died. I hope to resurrect it in the near future but I fear it may not be the same. It was great fun however and definitely worth doing if you've never done one before.

We're All Going On A Tea Shop Crawl

Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of my first ever tea shoppe crawl. It was conceived by a renegade rocker who used to get drunk on a mere two pints. Pub crawls were therefore not for him but he still wanted to join in the crawling phenomenon (which was all the rage back then). So he decided that a more genteel approach was needed and thus the notion of the tea shop crawl was born.

So on 11 November 2002 we decided to hit every single tea shoppe in Cambridge, all gothed up to the nines. We took a few plushes with us although they would come to regret their presence as we bonded them all together with a scarf, so wasted were we.

As you can imagine there are quite a lot of tea shoppes in Cambridge and as bemused pensioners looked on, we binge-drank tea. We gave everything a try - English Breakfast Tea, Mint Tea, a vast array of Fruit Teas, Tetley Tea and probably Tesco Value Tea with a ridiculously high mark-up on it. We were responsible however - drinking and driving is wrong - and so the designated driver had to stick to decaf all afternoon.

Three hours into the session we started to crave food so teacakes and scones (with cream and jam) were brought out post-haste. The more we drank the more hyper we became, with everyone's inhibitions reducing. At one point someon made a pair of breasts with two scones and some jam. Crazy! The resulting caffeine high lasted for hours and there was much chattering of teeth come the end of the afternoon.

We went on to do two more before the concept died. I hope to resurrect it in the near future but I fear it may not be the same. It was great fun however and definitely worth doing if you've never done one before.