Is Blossoms a restaurant with a garden centre attached or is it a garden centre with a restaurant attached? That is the question! Not a particularly burning question, but a question nevertheless. Okay, in terms of acreage, the garden centre is bigger, but in terms of population, Blossoms wins hands down. It’s big and there are always loads of people having full-blown meals or just coffee and scones like us
Unbelievably, it is ten years since we first posted from here. Someone should remind us to get a life.
The door
Back in 2015, there was a General Election, and as we sat in Blossoms, we were fantasising about “A Parliament of Scones”. There would be about 650 plain ones in the Commons, some of them pretty half-baked, and another 900 or so fruit ones in ‘the other place’. We know! You would think perhaps that allaboutthescones might have been a bit more sensible back then, but no!. Anyway, we mention the House of Lords simply so we can have a rant about its new front door – at £10 million, the most expensive front door in the world. – and it doesn’t work! It should be automated; however, they have decreed that, given the design, it will probably never work. Someone has to permanently stand beside it to open and close it. It’s virtually useless, a bit like the place itself.
We were here to buy a hosta. We got one called “June” which we thought appropriate for the time of year. 
While Pat took June and a little viola out to the car, I went to Blossoms. Disappointingly, in the self-service line, all the scones seemed to be preloaded. It wasn’t until I came to pay that I realised that they had ordinary scones on display at the far side of the cash desk. What’s the point in that? I couldn’t be bothered trying to change – a preloaded scone it was. It wasn’t too bad, but a million miles away from a topscone. Pat had a strawberry tart, which was demolished in record time.
Given rights
Even sitting here in the safety of a garden centre in the middle of Scotland, we feel a little less safe with the latest bout of bombing in the Israel/ US/Iran madness. Where will it all end? Since Israel’s “God given right” seems to be at the root of all the problems, it seems a bit odd that no one questions it. We’re pretty sure that whatever God intended back in 1948, it’s not what He’s ended up with. We do know, however, that He would want us to get home and find a nice shady spot where “June” can flourish in peace.
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I thought you were a better student of history. You certainly are, I’m sure, well aware of Scottish history, but you seem to be a bit shaky in world history.
Back in 1948, the Jews were given a piece of ground for their permanent home by the international community, the United Nations. It, by coincidence or not, corresponded (roughly) to what they claimed as the “land of milk and honey” promised to them by God.
I cannot believe your pacifism is so lacking of compassion that you’re willing to turn a blind eye toward the danger of nuclear holocaust in the middle East and beyond. Is it because the Ayatollah has not threatened “Death to Scotland?”
Well In Scotland we don’t claim that God gave us our country. We would not wish to be associated with any God so obviously partisan. Scotland is so beautiful, however, that many do refer to it as God’s own country.
The Balfour Declaration in 1917 and then the UN Resolution 181 were practical attempts to resolve a particular problem … nothing to do with God given rights. Since it would appear the these “rights” cannot be questioned in spite of almost no empirical evidence, I just wonder why.
All the best to yourself and Gloria
The scones on display the other side of the cash register- that could have been a bit of marketing.
Let me explain:- AJ cafe at East end of Falkirk High Street would sometimes have scones – or even a solitary scone sitting underneath a glass domed display.
They made such scones on the premises.
However I came to notice that the same scone could sit there for more than a week.
Anyone ordering a scone -if they had none, one of the profusion of “operatives” would nip out the back door and buy a pack of economy scones from ASDA. (walmart equivalent).
The solitary homemade scone was what might be known as a scone magnet.
I have yet to experience a top scone , and the AJ premises have since ceased trading.
John, who would have thought that such subterfuge would be employed in scone world. We actually reviewed AJ’s back in 2020. https://www.allaboutthescones.com/ajs-cafe/02/2020/ so you actually came very close to an almost topscone
Well I can’t comment on the scone since I didn’t taste it but the strawberry tart was Mmmmmmm.
This place always seems to have plenty of customers mainly in the tearoom.