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cloggo: The Junk food generation will never cope with this. A tiny island of good manners in an ocean of ignorence. “The stringent rules at the Tea Cosy Rooms include not putting your elbows on the table, not insulting the Queen, never handling sugar cubes and not sipping from teaspoons. Visitors are advised that their little fingers should not point into the air, tapping a teaspoon against a cup and using a mobile phone is banned outright.” The “unsavoury habit” of dunking biscuits is strictly prohibited, too. Mr Daly says his menu and the tea room setting is based on high tea at The Ritz. “I am just keen to teach people of the joys of a civilised cup of tea.” Note: Genuine Yorkshiremen will be allowed to fan their tea with their caps if done in a genteel manner.

cloggo:

The Junk food generation will never cope with this. A tiny island of good manners in an ocean of ignorence.
“The stringent rules at the Tea Cosy Rooms include not putting your elbows on the table, not insulting the Queen, never handling sugar cubes and not sipping from teaspoons.
Visitors are advised that their little fingers should not point into the air, tapping a teaspoon against a cup and using a mobile phone is banned outright.”
The “unsavoury habit” of dunking biscuits is strictly prohibited, too.
Mr Daly says his menu and the tea room setting is based on high tea at The Ritz. “I am just keen to teach people of the joys of a civilised cup of tea.”
Note: Genuine Yorkshiremen will be allowed to fan their tea with their caps if done in a genteel manner.

(via my-ear-trumpet)

 Source: cloggo
The memorial grounds will open to family members of the dead on Sept. 11, 2011; everyone else will gain entry the next day. What they’ll find are two square waterfalls, marking the footprints where the World Trade Center towers stood, each with a smaller waterfall laid into its base. You can’t see the bottom from standing height. Water flows into water, never filling a void. Ringing the falls, the names of the dead are punched clean through sheets of bronze. They are arranged by algorithm so that victims are placed next to the people who mattered to them; the non-alphabetical arrangement means that office best friends are adjacent, and firefighters in the same company remain together; there is a same-sex couple and their toddler, with a tangle of last names, the dads above the boy. The arrangement of names is the most incredible and wonderful thing about this memorial. I want to go and see it one day .

The memorial grounds will open to family members of the dead on Sept. 11, 2011; everyone else will gain entry the next day. What they’ll find are two square waterfalls, marking the footprints where the World Trade Center towers stood, each with a smaller waterfall laid into its base. You can’t see the bottom from standing height. Water flows into water, never filling a void. Ringing the falls, the names of the dead are punched clean through sheets of bronze. They are arranged by algorithm so that victims are placed next to the people who mattered to them; the non-alphabetical arrangement means that office best friends are adjacent, and firefighters in the same company remain together; there is a same-sex couple and their toddler, with a tangle of last names, the dads above the boy.

The arrangement of names is the most incredible and wonderful thing about this memorial. I want to go and see it one day .

(via cheatsheet)

 Source: thedailybeast.com
inothernews: WETWAY   A highway interchange in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania disappear into flood water.  More than 100,000 residents were evacuated from the state and several counties in neighboring New York State declared states of emergency as the Susquehanna River crested due to rains brought by Tropical Storm Lee.  (Photo: Jimmy May / Bloomsburg Press Enterprise via AP / the Telegraph) WOW. That’s a flood and a half.

inothernews:

WETWAY   A highway interchange in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania disappear into flood water.  More than 100,000 residents were evacuated from the state and several counties in neighboring New York State declared states of emergency as the Susquehanna River crested due to rains brought by Tropical Storm Lee.  (Photo: Jimmy May / Bloomsburg Press Enterprise via AP / the Telegraph)

WOW. That’s a flood and a half.

 Source: i.telegraph.co.uk