Graduates gathered for tea in the Dean's Yard in Westminster, England, and released 1,000 blue balloons over London.
More welcoming were the Women of Altitude, a group of small businesswomen who had gathered for morning tea with Fiona Scott, the MP for Lindsay.
From the 1930's until the 70's, Ocampo was at the center of the Argentine equivalent of the Bloomsbury group, which gathered for Sunday tea at her grand family villa, with its eccentric Victorian architecture built above a ravine.
They were fans of Virginia Woolf, and they gathered for high tea shortly before the kickoff.
After the lecture, the Lolitas gathered for a pink-frosted tea party, snacking on pink mini-cupcakes and, of course, sizing up one another's outfits.
Playgoers surveying the London theater scene at present will surely mark the affinities between this assemblage and the gathering on view across the Thames at the very fine West End revival of "Absent Friends," Alan Ayckbourn's 1974 play in which six people gather for a suburban tea that comes with its own terrors.
Again, there are other tea houses in Long Beach with more affordable teas, but the grandeur of the ship, of the service, the view, it's the perfect place to give that young little boy or girl their first high tea experience (as everyone should have one) and a great place for old friends to gather for a special tea.
People gather for a whole new community and experience around tea. Indeed, there are tea guides at every store who can walk you through the process of finding the right tea smell and taste for you and how you feel.
Women gathered on porches and invited us for tea, while farmers ploughing the land stopped to talk.
For many years, faculty, staff, and students in the Division of the Social Sciences gathered in the Tea Room on the second floor the Social Science Research Building for coffee, tea, and desserts.
It contains records for more than 1393 constituents found in tea with information gathered from 364 published books, journal articles, and electronic databases.
