I like to answer questions on Quora and other fora. Apart from the fact that some questions are bizarre , such as Was Jesus a Psychedelic Mushroom? or “What Kind of desserts Do Hell’s Angels Eat? , there are plenty of just plain dumb questions about tea. And as someone with a profile concerning tea, I get asked […]
Happy New Year! This year, I resolve to work on my distractability. This quote got me thinking: I spent the last few months of 2015 reading a fair bit, and as usual, I read some fiction, some non-fiction. But this year, it was the non-fiction that resonated. In 2015 I read 2.75 books by Tom Holland, […]
Some random person on Facebook said the other day in my direction: “I guess Christmas Day gives you a break from drinking all that tea”. What? That’s the most inaccurate thing since Keanu Reeves had “actor” put on his passport! Christmas Day is about having those people you are closest to around you. It’s not […]
As you all know, I am one of the world’s most knowledgeable tea people, and I am also very generous and willing to share my vast brain with less fortunate beings. The same goes with previous generations of Lord Devotea’s. As an example, the third Lord Devotea** assisted a young lady with some tea pairing […]
I get asked a fair few questions on Quora along the lines of: What are the side effects of Green Tea? To save wasting my valuable time, I’ve decided to offer one comprehensive answer to the question, and hopefully this means that all those people who apparently can ask questions on Quora but can’t actually […]
This is my fifth Christmas as a tea blogger, and I must say, I’ve done an awful lot of work on your behalf to make Christmas better. Over the years I’ve published bad Christmas Poetry time and time again, shared my long lost childhood letters to Father Christmas. My Steps To A Tea Spangled Christmas is of course a […]
A few days ago I was contacted by Brooks Peck. No, that’s not a tea company, it’s a guy. A guy who is a museum curator and who has co-written a Zombie film and a Yeti film for the Syfy channels. (That’s is gold in term of ‘street cred’ amongst most of my readers. I […]
I’m not really one for bad tea puns, but the title of this blog wrote itself. I originally had a blog, where I ranted. And then I had a tea blog. And after about a dozen posts, I moved my blog to Tea Trade. I used to make videos regularly, and Jackie Davenport of Trade came […]
. You’ll notice the blank area above this first line. That’s a moment’s silence for the victims of the terrible attacks in Paris in the last 24 hours. It’s three hours later than I normally write my blog, and it’s a struggle to write my usual semi-pointless, mildly aggressive half rant. Seems a […]
The guy had sunglasses on. A singlet. Shorts. A large takeaway beverage cup in his hand. He looked vaguely dangerous. Lady D was rearranging the stock, so it was down to me to offer him some tea samples. I didn’t. I waited for him to pass our stall. He didn’t. The takeaway cup turned out […]