It is with deep regret that I have to tell you that Notcutts Garden Centres have removed the benefit of two free coffees per month from their £12 Loyalty Card.  Gone are the days of two cream teas for £3.50.  It prompted me to dig this out from my Greatest Hits album.

Can any treat make me a more content man

Than clotted cream, scone and blackcurrant jam?

At mid-afternoon on a fine English day

With a steaming hot teapot of Twinings Earl Grey.

Along with young women a Cornishman’s dream

Is spun round Free Kernow and fresh clotted cream

He’ll hark back to days when he was half-grown

To the smell from the oven of Gran’s fresh-baked scones

Then juggling a hot one he’d pinch it and scram

And lather it richly with blackcurrant jam

Not strawberry or raspberry would ever it be

But blackcurrant swilled with a saucer of tea.

Can any treat make me a more content man

Than clotted cream, scone and blackcurrant jam?