Recipe For Disaster
At New Year, I gave Keiko's parents some souvenirs from England. The usual: fudge, tea etc. I also gave Mrs Terui a tea-towel featuring sights around Bournemouth.
It was quite a while later that I received a rather confused question:
Keiko's mum had spent a long time trying to work out how you use the towel to make tea!
She had tried wrapping it round the kettle, she had tried using it as a place mat on which to pour tea into the cups. I hate to think how much time she spent trying to make a nice cup of tea for us all, whilst incorporating the tea towel.
I felt rather bad after that explaining the towel is nothing more than just a dishcloth. Seemed rather anticlimatic.
2 comments:
and what would she have made of a honey drizzle?
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