We had our Gypsy Tea here at Prudence's Tea Room recently and as usual it was just the most fun! Well it was! Everyone outdid themselves. I was delighted to find out that three different tables were horsewomen!!! One of them just got her very own GYPSY VANNER HORSE from Great Britian!!! These are usually paint horses in color and were used to pull the Gypsy caravans throughout the land. They are wonderful family horses who were very well cared for and loved by the Gypsies. I told her about a most wonderful Gypsy Caravan that is being offered for sale at Martin's Horse equipment auction in October in Lancaster. Totally restored and just a wonder of function and design. Guess who is lusting after it?

We were all enjoying our outfits so much I said I would love to dress like that all the time in the tea room. Why just have Red Hat Societies invading tea rooms? Why not Gypsy Tea Bags? Much more fun and no one telling you how to dress! After all, the Gypsies were reading tea leaves long before Queen Victoria invented afternoon tea. Don't worry. I know you aren't into fun here at Prudence's, well just a glorious few are. Just a fanciful thought on my part. Guess you can tell where my heart is in regards to tea room traditions. I personally enjoy the unexpected, non-traditional, breaking out of the cookie cutter tea room mold, rather than having to conform to rules made up by people I wouldn't want to be with anyway. Besides being too large, uh hum, to fit the mold, I am also too colorful. I want to do it MY WAY!