I had awakened well before get-up time and unable to fall back to sleep, opened YouTube on my phone to find a calming video and this one popped up. https://youtu.be/YuWihJdvC9Y?si=y5QbtiBpjdMHYkFT

I wondered how the story of a tea room could last three hours but decided to listen with my screen turned off and the playback speed at 90% because I find that more relaxing. It didn’t take long to become thoroughly engaged with the well-developed characters and description of life in a gaslit, phoneless, era. I wondered how it was even possible to run a business with no phone!

I never fell back to sleep because I became very involved with the story and thoroughly enjoyed it. I must admit, that I saw a lot of myself in Mrs. Fenwick. As a side note, when I heard scones mentioned it reminded me of the cherry almond scones with mock Devonshire cream that I hadn’t made in a long time, and I got out of bed to make them. I confirmed the advice I often give myself, “Don’t multitask”. Surprisingly, while listening to the video I put all together and only made one mistake: I left out ½ teaspoon of baking powder.

https://youtu.be/YuWihJdvC9Y?si=y5QbtiBpjdMHYkFT