Thank you

A big thank you to my husband who let me ignore everything on Saturday while I read HP7!
I finished on Saturday evening after attempting to read HP & watch Dr Who at the same time - not a successful reading method!
I had a lovely day. We had breakfast at Barmuda in Newtown and then wandered up to "Better Read Than Dead" to get our copy. They had a Hagrid entertaining the queues and our small person was very intrigued to find a giant. I had thought that I was being very calm and cool about the release because we didn't line up, pre-order or dress up, but we still managed to get one of the broomsticks being given to the first 100 customers.

serviettes and doilies

Why do some coffee shops insist on providing cake and other refreshment ON TOP OF a serviette (on top of a plate)? When I have coffee and cake, I would like to receive a serviette for the purpose of removing the crumbs from my visage, the jam from my fingers, the crema from my lips... It defeats the purpose to have food all over it to start with!

[ Some places seem to have two classes of serviette - a smaller one that goes under the food and a larger one that is provided to be used as a serviette. I can't decide if this arrangement is better or just stranger. ]

I have concluded that the whole thing is a bizarre conflation of a serviette and the now mostly defunct doily (aka doyley). Paper doilies are ridiculous by nature but, if somewhere feels that one is required, I would like to have an actual one AND a serviette. The functions of a doily and a serviette cannot be amalgamated in this way!