Wish everyone a very merry unbirthday at AbbeyNormal's Week-long "Virtual" Mad Tea Party!

Last year was wonderful in a totally scrumptious Cheshire Cat way!

Everyone, grab a cup of tea from Cheshire Cat before the Mad Hatter gets ahold of them! Although I might say, Cheshire Cat looks a bit…mad himself. Ah well, drink the tea and let’s get mad together!

to reality as Alice did in Wonderland. One last tidbit to share, is that I found a card at a store up here in Maine that made me laugh. It had a picture of Alice in Wonderland with the Mad Hatter and the little white rabbit. The Mad Hatter was turned toward the original pooh character, and the bottom of the card said “I think I need to see your invitation.” It made me laugh at how 43 things isn’t just a separate entity of people, and reminders of it are everywhere in our daily lives. I loved the party and hope everyone else enjoys their merry unbirthdays!

“Tea for two, and two for tea, Me for you, and you for me” ... Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) Alice in Wonderland, Chapter 6.

Now for the link I found when searching for this quote, which has all these tea quotes from everyone it seems under the sun, except for most of you….

http://www.stashtea.com/quotes.htm

So I wish a very merry unbirthday to who? to you!

for pictures of a tea-party go here— http://www.wilmington.edu/kids/Aiw3.jpg
and
http://www.mvps.org/st-software/Movie_Collection/images/5199f.jpg

One of my favorite parts of Alice in Wonderland was about the time when Tweedledum & Tweedledee met up with Alice. I used to sing their names out when playing racquetball with my mom in the racquetball courts. It made me laugh & smile.

So here’s one of the parts in the book, that I have copied and pasted from Alice in Wonderland for all to enjoy:

CHAPTER IV TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE

THEY were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other’s neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had “DUM” embroidered on his collar, and the other “DEE”. `I suppose they’ve each got “TWEEDLE” round at the back of the collar,’ she said to herself.

They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she was just going round to see if the word “TWEEDLE” was written at the back of each collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked “DUM”.

`If you think we’re wax-works,’ he said, `you ought to pay, you know. Wax-works weren’t made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow.’

`Contrariwise,’ added the one marked “DEE”, `if you think we’re alive, you ought to speak.’

& then…this part was good too:

`Next Boy!’ said Alice, passing on to Tweedledee, though she felt quite certain he would only shout out `Contrariwise!’ and so he did.

`You’ve begun wrong!’ cried Tweedledum. `The first thing in a visit is to say “How d’ye do?” and shake hands!’ And here the two brothers gave each other a hug, and then they held out the two hands that were free, to shake hands with her.