After an afternoon of wondering if there was anywhere in Cambridge that offers Afternoon Tea… Scones and Jam in particular… after 6pm on a Wednesday night, I remembered that some of my fellow Cambridge bloggers had recently been mentioning and liking the new cafe that has recently moved into the empty space where the old Slug and Lettuce pub used to be.  (Thank you Deepa, Miss B & Sian ; )  So onto the interne

… That’s me… And I feel honoured that Tea Box Online feel that I deserve this title hehe… And who am I to argue with such a grand one at that?! In fact Tea Box Online have become one of mine and also one of my Tea Party guests most favourite tea suppliers, mainly because of the unique and exciting blends that they produce and sell online through their website. And when asked if I would write up a guest

Back in May, I entered myself into a competition called “Sugar Slam 2011 – Whisks Of Fury” which had immediately caught my attention through Twitter as a baking competition with my kind of twist to proceedings. It is a wrestling themed online bake off, hosted by Bake And Destroy, with guest judges such as the legendary Mike Edison, Ben Roche and the inspiring Beth Phoenix… If you are into your wrestling

Ok, So technically Ice Cream isn’t Afternoon Tea fodder, however, it is when you incorporate dessert into this cold treat….Twice recently I have found myself wandering around Cambridge on a really hot and sunny day, which is a rarity to be doing that once on a day off, let alone twice in a row lately – What a treat! And so, naturally, taking a trip down Kings Parade to soak up the sun and the beautiful archit

 After a chat and a lovely Saturday afternoon last weekend, spent with Bakelady from The Secret Tea Room in Leeds, she suggested that a great idea to keep everybody  updated with what I am up to each month is to do exactly that hehe….  So thanks to this advice, here it goes…  Should you be at all interested in what I am planning to get up to this month…. Friday 1st July – Making a Lemon Layer cake to ta

Last Friday, 8th July 2011 saw a version of The Secluded Tea Party that I am pretty confident was ONE OF A KIND evening and not my usual tea party event… We held a Zombie Tea Party for over 18’s – due to the nature of the cake and the overall entertainment for this fun and gruesome Tea Party, which was held at the fantastically suitable venue in the form of Apocalypse Paintball in Kneesworth. Why a Zombie Tea

As reviewed in my column *Miss Sue Flay Recommends* in the Cambridgeshire Journal Magazine – September 2011.  HOW have I passed so many times before, yet never tried out this lovely coffee shop before? Jocalatte is a lovely independent coffee and chocolate shop on Burleigh Street in Cambridge, and they source all of their truffles and chocolate selections from suppliers around the UK including Scotland, as well as the ho

In the excitement of planning The Secluded ZOMBIE Tea Party, I headed down to my secret woodland location last Friday evening at the same time that this weekends’ creepy festivities will commence and I managed to get a real feel for how it will all look with the sun setting and the darkness creeping up on the *Safe Zone* that we will be preparing to keep you all safe for a few hours… And it looks fantastic. Perfect

On Friday 1st July I drove down to the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Radio Station to enjoy my first radio experience as Miss Sue Flay, which was so much fun. The lovely Liz Fraser hosted the hour that I appeared in, called the “Chat Lounge” where I was joined by another guest, children’s author, Imbali Iserles. We talked about Mother-In-Laws from hell (Mine is a saint, so I couldn’t relate to that luckily!)

  The Secluded (Vintage) Tea Party was held on a very hot and muggy Sunday 26th June 2011 at 2pm at a very special location indeed, and 100% perfect for a Vintage Themed Afternoon Tea Party. Our venue for this afternoon event was The Barn, Kneesworth, just a mile from Royston, and not too far out of Cambridge. And being perfectly secluded, away from the main road within the car park of a very nice Indian restaurant and still w