05/08/11…Thame ladies team up for cream tea at ‘The Spread’

BIT of quiet news day today, so here’s a little bit of a summer diversion for the end of the week:

THERE are several great places in Thame for ‘ladies that lunch’ but just for a change, a trio of Thame’s lady movers and shakers agreed to join me for a Champagne cream tea at the Spread Eagle in Cornmarket, Thame. But what about the calories, and the cholesterol I hear you squeek?

Well, yes, a cream tea’s not the healthiest of meals but hey, its quintessentially English and everyone deserves a bit of “naughty but nice” every now again.

So how did it go? First, here’s the verdict of Catherine Jones, alias Romantic Novelist and bon viveur (or should that be bonne viveure?), Kate Lace:

“Okay, so at first sight nearly