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By Bornagain
29 May, 2012
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This is the 2 for 1 offer at Country gardens. 3 finger sarnies each + cakes and scones. The observant among you will notice a paper napkin under my cup and some screwed up napkins near it....yes I spilt my tea...but to be fair there was precious little room on the table. We got a taxi there and back and apart from the sandwiches it was not very good, didn't eat the Kipling cakes...scone not good clotted cream + jam ok ....nothing in the garden centre I wanted to buy. Bit of a wasted journey...nice day though:-)
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Aw shame. I could put on a better spread! lol
29 May, 2012
me too pix!!! better set up that tea shop i think!!
29 May, 2012
How kind of you not to mention my little accident:-)
29 May, 2012
It was only £7.99 for the two of us on the offer...cost £17.00 including taxis lol.. and no plants I wanted either:-(
29 May, 2012
the best i can say is at least the bill was cheaper cos there were no plants on the bill.
pity the jinney ring isnt nearer to you its lovely there. i have a feeling there is a craft centre somewhere up there, i think samjp told me about it???
£8 ~ hmmm, could have been worse!!
29 May, 2012
Very cheap if edible:-) Just think of the normal price though:-(
29 May, 2012
and the worst thing about it is once they have brought it to you its very difficult to argue about the price.
29 May, 2012
Are you seriously saying that cup of a tea a scone a very dubious looking smart price loaf sandwich would normally cost £16 !!! per person?
29 May, 2012
I totally agree with your comments BA. I got a very similar offer to this from Wyevales last week and we got the exact same offering. It was a pity because the invitation they sent made it sound lovely. It was the same price too. - Not recommended! Its probably part of the same group, I think Wyevales have been taken over by the garden centre group in the last few months
29 May, 2012
No Pimp, it was a 2 for 1 offer, normally £7.99 pp, but if I'd made that scone, I'd have thrown it away...and a tiny Mr Kipling cake! The 3 finger sarnies were nice;-)
29 May, 2012
Yes Poppy, this was taken over a year or two ago...massive chain, no interesting plants:-(
29 May, 2012
Big chains like that tend to let standards down..nothing like a wee teashop to have good home baking eh :)
29 May, 2012
don't look good to me either, definately Kiplings cakes,
29 May, 2012
You should have tried the scones Yorkie, yuck. Pixi, as I bought nothing at the gc I'd rather have found a wee tea shop:-)
29 May, 2012
Well I had a cream tea at Dobbies today & it was lovely, as was the sweet & sour chicken with vegetable rice I had for lunch when I first got there & an iced coffee that I didn't spill ! Lol.
29 May, 2012
And you never invited me!:-(
30 May, 2012
I can't believe they served Kipling cakes.,Ba.I hate them !
For the price,they could have made a better effort..ah,well you live and learn..you won't take up their 'special 'deal again then ? ..
1 Jun, 2012
Nooooo!!!:-)
1 Jun, 2012
That's what I thought,Ba..I like a positive person .:o)
1 Jun, 2012
I'm definitely positive:-)
2 Jun, 2012
Save your pennies for the RHS marquee at Gardeners Live Bornagain :-)) I have a list as long as my arm and if you see a lady wheeling around a new pink barrow full of plants it will be me :-))))
11 Jun, 2012
Lucky you, I'm going by train so won't be able to take so much home, I'll still take my pink trolley though. Which day are you going?:-)
11 Jun, 2012
Sunday Ba ...hoping to maybe nab some of the larger show shrubs :-))
11 Jun, 2012
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oh dear Ba i can see exactly what you mean!!! 2 out of 10 maybe?? and maybe not the place to go back to?? what a shame
i have to say when they dont do things properly it makes me cross, cos it cant be that hard can it???
i dont think they will be asked to do the queens garden party catering for the jubilee!!!
29 May, 2012