Guest reviewer: Jim Petts

And so to the amazing triangular castle of Caerlaverock on the Northern shores of the Solway Firth. Amazing because inside its traditional castle-like exterior lies the red sandstone façade of a later stately home, looking for all the world like something from Petra. All it needed was Indiana Jones.

And after a quick look round, we meet some of our friends coming back from the tea-shop saying “excellent scones”. Unable to resist the challenge we leap in and sample the wares. A most excellent home constructed scone, firm and brown on the outside and soft and replete with fruit inside. Not served with strawberry jam alas, but with a decent clot of clotted cream and raspberry jam. All served up with a decent pot of tea in a china pot, thus avoiding the stainless steel teapot scalds. Just what the Doctor ordered and a cure-all for sciatica. Top marks for this one.

Guest reviewer: Jim Petts

To tell you the truth I don’t remember this scone too clearly except that it was a life-saver. I was taken over all peculiar in an antiques shop in Corbridge, possibly due to low sugar level, and needed an instant injection of scone-related product. This we found just down the road at Truffles Tea Rooms.

A pleasant small town classic tea-shop doing all the good things that pleasant small town classic tea-shops do, including a range of scone types including this classic. Not exceptional, just a good standard classic scone, served up with a blob of butter (no clotted cream) and good standard strawberry jam. For restorative reasons, and because it was morning, I had a cup of coffee with it. Quite satisfying and just what was needed. After ingesting, we went on our way much improved.