Teacup Tuesday Royal Doulton Brambly Hedge, London Taxi Poem

Welcome to the Tuesday blog parties where everything relates to taking tea. I have the list of parties I am joining at the bottom.

This is a boxed teacup and here is a panel from the box. I love it!

As it is looking and feeling like autumn, I am sharing the Autumn cup and saucer made by Royal Doulton, England from the wonderful books by Jill Barklem called Brambly Hedge. I used to teach kindergarten and they were a favorite with the children...as well as myself. The illustrations are fabulous!
For more info on the Brambly Hedge Autumn cup and saucer at Time Was Antiques, click on the photos.

From the website home page:

Welcome to Brambly Hedge

Brambly Hedge is on the other side of the stream, across the field. If you can find it, and if you look very hard amongst the tangled roots and stems, you may even see a wisp of smoke from a small chimney, or through an open door, a steep flight of stairs deep within the trunk of a tree. For this is the home of the mice of Brambly Hedge. The mice of Brambly Hedge live together in a close-knit community making best use of what each season has to offer.

 Now this doesn't relate to teacups necessarily, other than the link of taking tea really being popularized in the UK, but I came across a poem to the London Taxi:

The London taxi is a relic

For which my zeal is evangelic.

It's designed for people wearing hats,

And not for racing Bonneville Flats.

A man can get out, or a lady in;

When you sit, your knees don't bump you chin.

The driver so deep in the past is sunk

That he'll help you with your bags and trunk;

Indeed he's such a fuddy-duddy

That he calls you Sir instead of Buddy.

Ogden Nash (who else??!)

All because I was looking at the September/October 2009 issue of Victoria magazine with the title The Return of our British Issue, for which I was highly delighted.

I am joining the following tea time blogs today:

Ruth ~ http://antiquesandteacups.blogspot.com/
Teacup Tuesday

Kathy~  http://blissfulrhythm.blogspot.com/
Victoria - A Return to Loveliness

Martha~  http://www.marthasfavorites.com/ 
Teacup Tuesday 
Terri~  http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com/ 
Teacup Tuesday

Wanda Lee~  http://silkenpurse.blogspot.com/ 
Teapot and Tea Things Tuesday 
Pam~  http://breathoffreshair-paperbutterfly.blogspot.com/ 
Teapot and Tea Things Tuesday 
Wanda Lee~  http://theplumedpen.blogspot.com/ 
Tea For Two and Wednesday Tea For Me and Thee

Trisha~  http://sweetology101.blogspot.com/ 
Tea Party Tuesday

Lady Katherine~  http://ladykatherineteaparlor.blogspot.com/ 
Teatime Tuesday

Sandi  ~  http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com

Teatime Tuesday