...had:

tea - and pumpkin waffles - at the queen of the fairies...
Once you've decided to do a garden thing you do a garden thing. Despite constant rain and freezing temperatures. Ha!

At least, until a certain point, then we wisely relocated the battlefield.
To summarise, the queen and her snacks won, the white flag was raised during the chocolate ice cream, the graceful lady ended just sitting around decoratively in a gentle tummy protective position and shakedown was provided by the blue eyed knight.
And they lived happily ever after...