Today
Not teatime, sadly enough
Greetings! If you read the date correctly, you will have noted that it is the summertime. You may also have noticed that I said it wasn't teatime.
Well, I was delirious and mad at the time, and I was wrong!
Tea, I do believe, can be enjoyed at every hour of the day during the summer. That's the custom, you know. Long-standing tradition! Well- from now on it is anyway.
Because of the delightfulness of this fact, we shall be discussing tea again today. Now I don't know about you, but I take tea always. Weather or temperature is NOT IMPORTANT! Understood? Tea warms you up and cools you down. It makes you happy, it makes you excited at the thought of it.
I personally take my tea very creamy and milky. I add seven sugars, one for every day of the week, to every cup of tea. That's a lot of sugar perhaps, but when you ingest a lot of sugar at a time for a very long time, I believe you get used to it and rarely ever get overly excited at all. Take me for example. Or my good friend the Hare. Now, the Doormouse hardly takes any sugar. One might call him sensible, but you see, the Doormouse is a loveable fool for many reasons, none of which we will go into now.
Well then, tea! Just like with the perfect hat, the cup of tea is something to be accentuated with the perfect accessories. Unlike many people believe, I most certainly do NOT smash my cups or teapots, although it is true I have a collection to be proud of. Now WHY would I want to smash my lovely china?
China, of course, is Chinese, just like you get hats from Hatters and so on. Now I don't happen to go to China very often. Wonderland has always been the place for me. In fact I have never been to China. However, my English friend Alice has managed to get hold of some ENGLISH china for me. English isn't the same as Chinese, as you quite understand. But to poor dear confused Alice, the china is in many ways the same. Still, I pretended to be grateful and I added the pretty blue teapot and cups to my collection. They're all right I suppose, but honestly! English china!
What else? Let's see. How do you like to set your tea table? It's true that I have a very long table, because I'm very fond of good company. There are twelve places in all, and each place has a velvet armchair, a teapot, and three cups. I don't hand out individual sugar bowls or milk jugs, however. Those may easily be accessed from the center of the table. If one stands up and stretches slightly.
My tablecloth is white on formal occasions, but for every day tea, it is a rather pinkish color, like the end of the Doormouse's nose. He's very flattered, naturally. But when he sits on the table and shuts his eyes, his nose blends in as well and there's nothing to suggest he isn't just a pile of fluffy sugar lumps. By the way, the Doormouse and I have quite forgotten our dispute over my brains, as was mentioned last week. We have decided that, as the Doormouse is a little short of brains, we are going to share mine. It's only fair.
But I'm sure I'll have plenty left over for me.