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Hi Lanzababy

I'm your sub-editor for Old School Tea Rooms, Cheddleton, Staffordshire, UK. The new version is here A87797858 - please subscribe!

I enjoyed this indeed! I've made a few tweaks and added a couple of links (do say if there is anything you would like me to change back) but I have a few questions as well.

In the second paragraph, the spa and beauty facility is not mentioned, so I was surprised by it in the fourth paragraph and can't imagine where it could fit in to the tearooms building - would you like to add a note about that?

In the second paragraph of the Food subsection, it says "Teas, with homemade cakes, are available." - is that "Afternoon Tea"?

Am I right in thinking that the breakfast menu ends at 11am only on Sundays, and on other days it is indeed "all day breakfast"?

Lastlyl, I was puzzled by the sentence "Alcohol is not served; it is not licensed." - is "it" the Tea Rooms? Would a licence be needed for people to consume alcohol on the premises?

Thank you!

Re the Spa, this puzzled me too, so when we went to take the photos we had a sneaky look-see and discovered it round the back

I suggest altering the relevant sentence to this please?

>>>A small beauty salon has recently opened, with a separate entrance at the rear of the building< FOOTNOTE > This may have been the living quarters for the original headteacher. < /FOOTNOTE >


I've left spaces in case you've read it in Pliny; it makes the post vanish if you add angled brackets around anything that isn't a
recognised smiley.

Re: " "Teas, with homemade cakes, are available." - is that "Afternoon Tea"?

Yes, that would sound better.

Re the breakfast - it is available all day apart from Sundays.
And, having studied their website, I discovered it is only open from Wednesday to Sunday - ie closed Monday and Tuesday. It's probably worth mentioning this? How about changing the final section [Bookings] to

[Booking and Opening Hours]

and adding

The Tearooms are open Wednesday to Sunday.

Re the alchohol.

>>>Alcohol is not served; it is not licensed

After thinking about this, and trying to find an official site that explains the 'Bring your own bottle' concept and legal status, I can't find a thing apart from a very woolly unsuitable Wikipedia entry. The only information I am basing this on was a leaflet at the table which was promoting the Sunday lunch, which included the byob.

Therefore, I'd suggest you change it to the following, making the remark about the byob to a footnote.

Alcohol is not served; the premises are not licensed< FOOTNOTE >You may bring your own bottle of wine to accompany Sunday Lunch.< /FOOTNOTE >.

And finally - thank you Sasha You've done a fantastic job of polishing this up for me. Very thorough I like the links you've put in as well.

Thanks Lanzababy

I'm in Brunel today, so the extra phrases were fine (I usually use Pliny on my tablet computer, though, and can tell the difference - it's much more Tab friendly than Brunel (less zooming needed). On the laptop, though, Brunel is still my favourite!)

Tweaks made

Thanks for investigating the byob issue. I tried a different tack and had a look on http://www.gov.ukhttps://www.gov.uk/alcohol-licensing and found that in England, it seems that licences are only required to sell or serve alcohol, so it's likely that "bring your own" doesn't count for licensing purposes. I've left the byob in the main text, but it's easy to put in a footnote if you would still prefer.

No, I am happy to leave it the way you see best.

Thanks for your assistance You can return it whenever you like.

Hi Lanzababy

I'm your sub-editor for A Brief Guide to Cooks' Measurements. The new version is here A87797867 - please subscribe

I've made a few minor tweaks and added in a couple of links. The most major change is to the list of equivalences - I hope that's OK for you, but I can change it again if you would prefer a different layout.

Just one little query, about " a whole 'nother kettle of fish'" - I've heard of "thats 'another kettle of fish'", or "a whole 'other kettle of fish'", but not that one - I appreciate your thoughts...

Thank you!

Hi Sasha

That was quick!

it all looks fine to me, many thanks. The kettle of fish is a bit of local vernacular, maybe take the final quote mark off, as the first quote mark represents the missing 'a' from another? I was trying to have a bit of a light-hearted pun. Humour is not my strong point, by any means.



Send it back whenever you like - I must get round to taking some suitable photos for it.