Birthday tea

This was a somewhat belated birthday tea at JH's, a little more than a month after my actual birthday, but it was truly stupendous. We had soup (some kind of squash, although I don't remember the detail), proper thick sandwiches (homemade bread courtesy of MH) with scrambled egg, ham and Essential wholegrain mustard and poached salmon with dill, mayonnaise and cucumber), scones (plain and fruit with clotted cream, black treacle and homemade strawberry jam - not all at once, though), brownies, cake (courgette with mascarpone icing) and pavlova. My, I was full afterwards!