15/05/2026
Transport Weekend picnics aka Bus-Based Bargains. But equally good eaten in your own garden or at the park or anywhere else of your choosing.
£1 each or 20 for £15 is still very much a thing, with boxes available if you're spending £10 or more, but for this weekend only I've added some picnic variations.
# Two scones of your choice, fruit or cheese, in a carrier bag, with spread, jam, knives, serviettes - £3.00
# Two scones of your choice, fruit or cheese, in a carrier bag with spread, jam, knives, serviettes and clotted cream - £4.50
# Two scones of your choice, fruit or cheese, in a carrier bag with spread, jam, clotted cream, knives, serviettes, plus two pieces of cake - £6.00
And if that last one isn't an extraordinary bargain, then I don't know what is!
The "spread" is Flora. I love real butter, but the cash and carry didn't have any butter portions when I went and they still don't, so this was the best I could do. On the other hand this means that a fruit scone picnic bag is vegan, because I don't use any dairy in those scones, and never have.
As long as I don't oversleep - or sleep at all - there will be five different types of cheese scone. Yes, that's right, FIVE. One picnic bag may not be enough. Top tip: buy several.
Right, back to the kitchen, where the shortbread is nearly ready to come out of the oven and be replaced by brownies. Looking at the forecast I think it's going to be cardigan weather, which also means that rocky road makes the list for another week. Two kinds. Because who doesn't want a bus ride to a pretty Kent village with a cream tea and a piece of rocky road.
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See you tomorrow at Faversham Market and Faversham Festival of Transport outside Barley Mow Gifts And Interiors on the way to the vintage bus stops. I am slightly alarmed that I travelled to school on what now counts as a vintage bus.
