The things I do for research

[impulsereader]

A list of things I am currently watching on youtube in order to write as accurately and entertainingly as possible:

driven game shooting parties
rabbit dissection
rat dissection - system by bloody system
dancing (severed from rest of frog) frog legs

Oh - ETA - is anyone fussed about the size of my pictures when I post? I know I need to scroll a bit to the left, but I can't seem to find an easy way to reduce the size of groups of pictures on Photo Bucket. If it's inconvenient or obnoxious for anyone as I'm currently doing it, do let me know and I'll set myself the task of figuring it out.

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[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

Can I add something on the conversation about 'tea'?
I have been BritPicking for someone and had to explain what that means. Here is what I wrote:

'Tea' as a meal comes from 'tea time' and just means a meal taken some time in the afternoon with tea to drink. It can be of varied types of meal.

'Afternoon Tea' is light and posh (scones and jam and little cakes and dainty sandwiches) Mycroft's men at the Diogenes are often seen with that on the three-tier stand beside them. When sis and I were little, and staying in hotels which still served afternoon tea in the 1970s my parents often used it to feed us and then went to dinner themselves in the evening.

'Tea' for us up north was when northern folks had food about 5.30. We always had 'dinner' in the middle of the day but even that could be sandwiches ('bait'or 'snap') if you were away from home. Evening meals in the hard working North (when you were down the pit or in the mills spinning cotton) had to be filling, so it was often a chop or sausages, and cake (or black pudding or tripe). Then you might have 'Supper' if you were working late (more sandwiches, more meat, more cake) later or just supper as a biscuit and milk before you went to bed.

In Scotland there is a meal called 'High Tea', and they had added oat cakes and parkin and other types of thing. Those could kill a man they were so filling. It nearly did that to me when I had one when I was a child on holiday on the Isle of Arran.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

This is all lots of good info. When I happened into the posh restaurant in Edinburgh's National Museum they clarified multiple times if I was after 'tea' or 'afternoon tea' and now I understand why - well, I partially understood why at the time since 'afternoon tea' was quite over-priced - lol - but in the moment I was simply bemused at having to repeat myself. I was also mostly in need of a nice, comfortable sit-down because it was the first day out after I'd messed up my knee and was happy to pay for the overly posh tea tray of lovely things to go with my cuppa.