Massey's Lunch

What a lovely day for a lunch.  The winter sun was just right, it warmed us up as we made our way to Massey's, Forest Grove for our CHUMs lunch.   Some of us had a lunch and others had a high tea.  The portions were generous and the high tea very more-ish.  But I digress.

CHUMs & Friends

We CHUMs and our friends (making a total of nine hungry ladies all dressed in various colours of Red and Purple) arrived at Massey's around noon; all eager to taste the delights on offer. 

High Tea - Cups

High Tea Platter

Those that were having High Tea had the most dainty cups and saucers along with a nice selection of sandwiches, quiche, scones with jam and cream and finally little mud cakes with fresh strawberries.




The choices from the Lunch menu ranged from Soup, Wedges,Fish & Chips and Pasta.  All the lunch portions claimed to be on the small side but the large plates were overflowing with food.  Needless to say we all reckoned that we got value for money.

Delia & Jean 

Diana & Cheryle

Kim, Kerry & Mary

Vanessa, Sandra & Diana

This being our first gathering of the CHUMs, it gave us the opportunity to wear our red hats etc.  Cheryle's red hats that she got from China turned out to be "small" versions of what I would have termed to be full size dress hats.  They were very pretty and we all agreed that a larger version of these hats would be perfect for just about any occasion.  Sandra and I wore our knitted red hats - which was more a sixties style of  hat rather than a formal dress hat.



After our respective meals we took a wander around the estate and discovered some goodies just lying on the side of the pavement.  We picked up a Dyson Cleaner and a Heater. 

These we took back to my house to check if they were working.  It was also the excuse we needed to have some more tea and a chat about future events.


Back at Little Grove, we were met individually by Clancy (a visiting small good natured dog) who rushed to smell each person that came through the door and to get her ears tickled.  Next we checked out the goodies and discovered that the heater worked but the Dyson did not. 

Showing off the "goodies"

What a find!

 Due to the cost of these machines we thought that if it could be fixed for say $100 it would be worth keeping.  So we are all keeping our fingers crossed that we can get it work.
Between sipping our tea we agreed to a walk at the end of the August and to celebrate our Birthday's with the Birthday Girl getting to choose something they would like to do.  As three of us has a birthday in November; that is going to be a very busy month for us CHUMs.  Just how we like it.