We’ve found ourselves in an escalating war of pleasantries with our neighbours across the road. I seem to recall they started it by dropping off a plate of homemade fried dumplings, to which we returned fire with some chocolate muffins.
Since then there’ve been weekly transfers of plates across the street laden with savoury and sweet treats, not to mention free lemons from their tree (while our freeloading little bastard stubbornly refuses to fruit).
However in the past month they’ve taken things up a notch with two separate salvos of cheesecake, followed – before we could even retaliate – with this amazing platter of home-made sushi. That’s three of their plates sat waiting for return.
Needless to say we’re not taking that lying down, the pride of Britain is at stake!
The Duchess is out of her sick bed and in the kitchen right now whipping up a lemon cake to return fire, and planning a swift follow-up of scones with cream and jam before they can even clean their plates.
That will teach them!
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