Just outside the restaurant was a Saturday morning food market. The stalls were incredible. We were all sorry we had just filled our stomachs. Pastry stalls and cheeses and roasts and olives and cupcakes. Fresh pasta and pesto. All this good food, so fresh. So we decided to have a lunch picnic. We got some of the cheese and bread and pastries and coucous salad and Greek salad and olives. We strolled over to Coram´s fields and set up lunch. The weather was gorgeous again. we ate, then I lay in the sun and slept.
Mum and the three of us parted ways with the rest to get ready for the afternoon. We had booked tickets to Afternoon tease. An afternoon of high tea with burlesque. It was a chance to spend some quality time with our mum. Every dressed up in nice dresses and shoes and jewelery. We got to Vouluptre dressed in our finest. It was too early to sit so we had cocktails at the bar. I had a huge mojito. We were soon led down to our table. The lower level was dimly lit with old fashioned wallpaper and posters. Each table had candles and lovely table settings.
We were sat down at the table. Women in skimpy maid outfits poured us champagne and plates of finger sammiches. Later we were served cakes and tea. Then huge scones with clotted creme and jam. We were stuffed by the end. I was almost drunk.
The first act. Big, blonde and beautiful. The girl had a skimpy outfit and a pink apron. And a wooden spoon. She danced around and did the full tease dance. Complete with spoon self spankings. She was great. Also, her facial expressions were priceless. She stripped down to tassels.
The gateaux vivants. A pair of girls who did the traditional tableau vivant acts - freeze frame poses. They only ever wore underwear and fishnets. They half covered themselves with different props. The first lot were mixing bowls as they posed eating the raw dough.
the second act. A ukelale cabaret. She sung a song from the jungle book, then a French song and then Petula Clark´s Downtown. Her voice was amazing, but it wasn´t really the show I was expecting. It was more of a cabaret show than a burlesque show. It was still fun though.
More vivants with food related poses.
the third act. Kitten Von Strumpet and her ice cream for sale. She was a 50s style ice cream seller with a tray around her neck and thick retro glasses. She flipped discount signs (10% of,20% off, every thing must go) and stripped. She was sweet. We were at the front table so she gave us an ice cone bubble blower.
The final vivants. The best vivant. They covered themselves with iced cupcakes. Then broke the freeze frame rule as they stuffed the cupcakes into their mouths. Then stuffed the cupcakes into each other´s mouths. It was hilarious.
the fourth act. Marrianne Cheesecake and her fan dance. She wasn´t quite as curvy as the other girls. Not a very burlesque like figure. But her dancing was good. Red sequined g-string with bra and corset, red suspenders and heels. Giant feathers in her hair. Two huge feathered fans. She kicked her legs and flicked her fans. She slowly removed more and more clothes until there was only underwear. The fans kept the rest of her hidden until the last moment when she threw them up to reveal her sequined red tassels.
We were exhausted in the evenign and didn´t do much. We hung out with the grandparents.
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