two tea shops

In the High Street of Wotton-Under-Edge is a place called the Wotton Coffee Shop, (the High Street is actually called Long Street, I Think), anyway this was the least crowded of several tea shops in the village (town?). It had quite a nice interior but the counter area looked a bit like the sort of counter area you might get in a village hall or community centre - sort of cheap and tatty-looking. The staff were podgy middle-aged blonde women, they were slightly sullen and heavy handed but were not life-threatening. The cream tea was really good - warm fruit scones, tubs of Rhodda's Clotted Cream (wish they'd bring back those lovely copper-foil lids) - but the weak point was the jam, tiny tubs of a sort of strawberry-flavoured paste - and there was no butter to go with it, though they supplied some when we (I) asked. Otherwise, quite a nice little place but not one to rush back to.
The other is the cafe in Jolly's Department store in Bath, on the lower ground floor at the back of the building, not the posher restuarant upstairs. This place was ok, the man behind the counter was quite Jolly himself, looked like a balding Andy Murray. I had a cappucino which tasted like an espresso with some froth on top, very very strong. And an egg and bacon sandwich that was let down by the ordinary bread, as most sandwiches are, but then one side of it was going hard, which even on a sunday, isn't good. Nothing special about this place, in fact, hardly worth mentioning, like a poor man's Costa Coffee, don't really know why I'm mentioning it at all.