Category: Tea and Life
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Sunny Side Up
In a small coop in our backyard, we have two chickens: Lotus and Miss Moneyhenny. I say a small coop, but in reality, the coop is nicely proportioned but the chickens, who have just hit six months old, are the size of cows.* Lotus and/or Miss Moneyhenny, but most likely both, have just started showing their appreciation for the palatial living quarters,…
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Cheap and Cheerful
When people say “Cheap and…” these days, we usually expect the next word to be “nasty”. There’s an assumption that the two go together, an assumption that has been conditioned into us by the way retail works. Unless you are talking specialised areas such as perfume – because all major perfumes are exceptionally cheap to make and most come out of just a…
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Ding Dong, Something’s Dead
Isn’t that title a mistake? Any tea blog with above title is going to be about Dong Ding, the Taiwanese oolong, right? Wrong. As a keen history buff, I often take the long view. My favorite bits to look at are all a few thousand years past, though I do have an interest in politics as well. I’m nearing 50 years old, which means that there is now some history…
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Any Old Tea in a Storm
When one takes to the etherwaves these days, particularly on Twitter, one reads an awful lot about the weather, from exultant cries of delight to pure bellyaching. I always think these things are an interesting cultural reference. For example, some guy this morning said “Easter will be colder than Christmas this year”. My obvious first thought was “Christmas is ALWAYS hotter that Easter. ” I mean,…
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Storm In A Paper Tea Cup
I’ve just searched the Internet for instructions on brewing a particular tea. Not because I wanted to know, but just because I had a shrewd idea what I might find. And find it I did. The first item to come up was 880 words. It involves scrolling down four times, it has eight really useful pictures. I mean, who…
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Under Pressure
It is only a couple of weeks until that well-known event, International Devotea Day. And this is my 148th blog post since switching to Tea Trade and abandoning my previous blog. Not counting Beasts of Brewdom and another few sites I blog on, but the 148th Tea Spout. So, if I time it right, the highly anticipated 150th can occur on April 8th. If I have something intelligent to say…