Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts

Category: Tea and Food

  • The Sun Never Sets on Great Tea

    There was this thing called the British Empire. And it did some terrible, terrible things. So much worse than anyone else, of course. Wait a minute. Yes, in the name of empire; and through a quite inappropriate relationship with companies such as The East India company, Britain did some terrible things. Started wars for profit. Helped themselves to other…

  • The Confluence of Limited Tea

    After leaving the Dorchester, for more than 72 hours I had limited tea. It is the confluence of limited opportunity and circumstance and limited tea supplies. In an attempt to walk off some of the repast after The Dorchester, we walked across Hyde Park. Then through some of Kensington. In fact we walked for about three hours. Add that to the three hours walking…

  • Any way the wind blows

    A frantic two days came to a stunning conclusion last night. We’ve covered a fair bit of London and seen two shows; The Phantom of The Opera and We Will Rock You. and like the teas we have enjoyed over those two days, they have been at opposite ends of any measure you care to…

  • Worth One Thousand Words

    Even though I had a fabulous weekend, the fact that I had no tea other than what I made myself means I can assume that is of little interest to my readers. So I will summarize it in one sentence and then neatly catch up with my blog by describing yesterday. Here’s the sentence: Our…

  • And then there was tea…

    Well, so far this trip is about 37.5 hours old, and so few of them have been spent sleeping that I look like Marty Feldman, eye-wise. But there has been tea, and quite a lot of it. And all pretty good. We started at home with a lovely Lord Petersham. Just the thing after a…

  • Alchemy

    PART ONE: As I write this, I am sitting in a café with no internet connection and really bad tea. The café itself is lovely with good food, great ambiance, live jazz at times, decent coffee and some unusual beverages. More on those later. Excuse me whilst I lick the delicious milk foam from my lips.…

  • In Advance Of London

    In a few short weeks, we will arrive in London. This is after a couple of weeks in Spain, where I will explain that their economic problems are due to their not drinking enough tea. It’s my own theory and I am hoping for  World Bank grant to study it. Let’s say $3m, guys. So, London, steeped with tea history. And all sorts of…

  • Meet the Lady…

    Today, a quick post about Lady Devotea. Not the @LadyDevotea , my better half, but the tea named in her honour. The first photo shows where it starts: It’s our orange tree. It’s an odd tree, it has several crops per year, and often it has several different types of orange per crop. It’s either a clever hybrid, or a new…

  • Context and the Art of Slurping Your Own Tea

    Drinking your own tea? When I worked at a computer store many years ago, a lovely lady there named Janet had a saying, that someone had been “drinking their own bathwater”. Using this phrase to mean someone who was “a little different” had been drinking their own bathwater. And by ‘a little different” I mean touched. And by ‘touched’ I…

  • We can all try a little bit harder…

    I agree with @lahikmajoe, (otherwise known as Ken in that mystical arena called Real Life that I have only a passing connection to). But then again, I don’t. You see, Ken took the opportunity to advise someone who was in a  supermarket and contemplating a virginal tea purchase. He asked a few questions about how that person took their…