Welcome to the Elevenses Revival Society

This week, I fail to go to the market, get my picture taken looking “Maxy-Frenchy-French, and offer you a swirly chocolate and cherry cake by means of an apology.

I love the idea of elevenses. I feel a tremble of sadness that it’s now virtually extinct, but then I still write with a fountain pen and keep a dodo as a pet. It’s genuinely my intention next year to spearhead the elevenses revival, and I hope you will join me. We’re going to need a lot of cake. Let’s start practicing now.

At this time of year, when man…