Cookie Jar Cookies For Tea

I adore tea cookies

shortbreads, sugars, gingers

But every once in a while

Husband Jim

yearns for what we term

"Cookie Jar Cookies"

Those bigger, heartier cookies

that go more with milk than tea.

An afternoon

"come home from school"

"come out of the cold"

kind of cookie.

And so Sunday I made

Oatmeal raisin cookies

With fruit and oatmeal

I think of them as

healthy

cookies!

As good as they are with a glass of milk in the afternoon,

they also go well with tea.

In the breakfast room

By myself

Where I often read one of the decorating or cookery books

that are always handy in the breakfast room.

These two are Laura Ashley

A House in the Cotswolds and A House in London

I love looking at the pictures in these books

These interiors are not the flowery fussy rooms that we often think of

when we think of Laura Ashley.

But rather sparser and filled with antiques.

My morning

(and usually everyday) teapot is perfect to brew

P G Tips tea.

And the Spode blue and white which are always handy in the kitchen.

A hyacinth scents the air

An orchid's blooms make one think that perhaps

winter is almost gone.

I do linger at tea on Sunday afternoon

For there is not so many chores

Or, rather, chores are neglected on Sundays.

It's Tuesday and I'm joining Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage for Tea Time Tuesday and Bernideen for Friends Sharing Tea