Honey's off

A delightful afternoon spent with my American cousin Steve and his wife Audrey. I met him 62 years ago when he was 3 months old, and I was about a year. We had lots to talk about.

We sat in the Orchard Tea Rooms in Granchester, lounging in deck chairs in the sunshine. The Orchard first came into use in 1897, when a group of students asked to have their tea in the garden. Rupert Brooke lived in the house in1909 It became popular with the Granchester Group; namely, Virginia Woolf, J Maynard Keynes, E. M Forster, Bertrand Russell, Augustus John and Ludwig Wittgenstein used to visit.

Rupert Brooke wrote his poem The Old Vicarage:Granchester https://thereaderonline.co.uk/2009/04/27/featured-poem-the-old-vicarage-grantchester-by-rupert-brooke/,

and ends with these lines:

Oh yet
Stands the clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea ?