{"id":686,"date":"2012-05-14T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=686"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:00:38","slug":"tea-time-at-the-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Tea Time at the Diner&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe an unlikely spot for a cuppa tea &#8211; lots of Java no doubt &#8211; but quintessential British tea &#8211; maybe not so much!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/diner-scaled.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/diner-scaled.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nAnother heading in my photo scavenger hunt is &#8220;time.&#8221; I came across this beauty in one of the home decor shops on Mt. Pleasant. This shop always has the most amazing teapots on display. I want this one. It&#8217;s a step back in time &#8211; route 66 and all that.&nbsp; I have visions of the pot pouring out hash browns, eggs over easy and maybe some home made apple pie &#8211; forget the tea &#8211; pour me a slice of the 50&#8217;s with some honky-tonk juke box music &#8211; bobby socks and saddle shoes&#8230;. actually I&#8217;ll take a road trip right now, anywhere to a bit of history, wherever that may be.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a funky tea cozy from Lynette Meek at Le Tissier Designs to go with the pot &#8211; she has lots more &#8211; take a minute to browse through Lynette&#8217;s patterns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infiknit.com\/knitting-patterns-from-le-tissier-designs-c-66_124.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/circus.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"277\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/circus.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nand even funkier knitted teacups. This is Wedgewood from Infiknit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In66lg.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In66lg.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nNow did someone say eggs?<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/eggs.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/eggs.jpg\" width=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\">\nThese are knitted faberge eggs &#8211; not over easy!! and yes, each one has a knitted surprise inside. I have had periods of insanity&#8230;does that make me a genius&#8230;.please say yes&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\">\nHave a surprising day!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe an unlikely spot for a cuppa tea &#8211; lots of Java no doubt &#8211; but quintessential British tea &#8211; maybe not so much!! Another heading in my photo scavenger hunt is &#8220;time.&#8221; I came across this beauty in one of the home decor shops on Mt. Pleasant. This shop always has the most amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}