My latest sconnoisseur quest saw me blessed with company — how exciting, a sconepanion! — with the appropriately named Alice Cuppa Tea tagging along for the ride. I felt honoured this birthday girl had voluntarily opted to spend part of her special day with me, hoping I hadn’t bigged up my ‘project’ too much. Simultaneously exciting and terrifying is that Alice is 34 weeks pregnant. So whilst I felt I had a duty of care to fulfil, I was also hopeful that this speed demon may for once ride at a pace which allowed me to speak in full sentences, as opposed to staccato squawks.
We both expressed a yearning for coastal views and, after some deliberation, eventually settled on heading west to Queensferry, which — my sconepanion reliably informed me — had plenty of cafes. That’ll do for me.