For an Alice In Wonderland Tea Party you will need:
A long table
With a table cloth
A tea set with cups and saucers, a teapot and milk jug
A larger chair than the rest for Alice to sit at
A garden with a tree for shade
However, as you’ll see from the various illustrations below, much of this is negotiable.
Arthur Rackham, Alice in Wonderland, 1917Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Brigitte Bryan 1969Alices-Adventures-in-Wonderland-by-Lewis-Carroll-Illustrator-Gennady-Kalinowski-1970sWonderbus 7, Perry Colour Books Ill. Leslie Butler, pub. Powell Perry c1942-44, Putney UKIts-Tea-Time-by-K.F.-Fujiwara-Alice-in-WonderlandAdrienne Segur (1901-1981) Alice in WonderlandLibico-Maraja-1912-1983-Alices-Adventures-In-WonderlandBaudouin-Simonne-for-Alice-In-Wonderland-hatsBernyce Polifka’s concept art for Lou Bunin’s Alice in Wonderland (1949)Mary Blair (1911 ~ 1978) 1951 concept illustration for Disney’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’Wonderbus 7,Perry Colour Books Ill. Leslie Butler, pub. Powell Perry c1942-44, Putney UK tea party1907, Charles Robinson
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I also recommend the retellings by Parcast’s Tales podcast series. (They have now moved over to Spotify.) These are ancient tales retold using contemporary English, complete with music and Foley effects. Some of these old tales are pretty hard to read, but the Tales podcast presents them in an easily digestible way. “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” was published in two parts in May 2020.
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
