Growing up in England as a young child provided many opportunities for sweets, cakes and wobbly jellies, and one of my favorite pastimes was the call to afternoon tea. In our household, this usually occurred on Sunday afternoons. We still had on our Sunday frocks, and Grandma would “lay the table.” It was a small oak table with leaves that she would pull out, drape with crisp Irish linen, embellish with flowers from the garden ( I loved the forget-me-nots…