Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts

Category: Tea and Life

  • The Hypocrisy Continues

    I wasn’t sure I should post this. But, here goes. I spent many hours writing a post recently. And then found one fact that challenged my assumptions. My basic premise was that the new anti-gay laws in Uganda were a springboard for more or less boycotting African teas. What I have decided to do is…

  • Baked Goods: Usage and Abusage

    Look, you guys, I love you all, but in the words of today’s generation: you’re doin’ it wrong. By ‘you guys’, I mean Americans. The whole lot of you. You might find this hard to take, but I’m writing this because I care about you. You have some wonderful things like the Statue of Liberty,…

  • Transition

    My posting has slowed down lately. Partly that’s because of a huge rant that I spent a week on and then never published after some facts I discovered damaged my contention. Part of it is that I am writing for paid sites here and there. And partly it’s the time factor. The funny thing is,…

  • Reflections on The Art Experience

    Recently, we tried a new concept. Tea as art. The idea was to make a phenomenal tea: something a cut above our stable of blends. Something that would take a lot more work; something unique; something that would take far more effort and time than could be recouped. Something highly individual. You may have read…

  • To Market, To Market

    I live a complex life, like most people these days. Here’s how Roger Waters explained this: You wake up in the morning, get something for the pot Wonder why the sun makes the rocks feel hot Draw on the walls, eat, get laid Back in the good old days Then some damn fool invents the…

  • Spy vs. Spy

    I used to be a spy. Not a heroic, brave armed-to-the-teeth spy, as you see in a variety of silly films. I was head of the corporate intelligence section of a recruitment business I worked for. In fact, I was the corporate intelligence section. I got to be James Bond, M and Miss Moneypenny all…

  • The Collective Minds of Tea on the 7 Great Stories

    This is the final entry in my “List Week”. Seven Lists in Seven Days. If you’ve been reading, you have my thanks. If you haven’t – what’s wrong with you? According to a famous work by a certain Mr Booker, there are just seven stories in literature, and all books follow one or more of…

  • Escape to Tea Country: My 7 Simple Requirements

    Lord Devotea’s List Week. List 6* I love the TV show Escape to The Country. I also despise it. It’s a show where the various hosts help city folk find a house in the English countryside. I love it when hard working people find a nice place to call home. I hate it when spoilt…

  • 9 Essential Daily Tea Occasions

    This is List Five of “Lord Devotea’s List Week” a spectacular week of lists that is spread over the Beasts of Brewdom and Lord Devotea’s Tea Spouts blogs.  Of course, you can have twenty or thirty cups of tea in a day, if you like. In this blog, though, I’m going to pare it back to just…

  • My 12 Best Blog Post Titles What I Wrote*

    The Devotea’s List Week. List 4.** I love a great title. I find inspiration in titles. Many of my favourite authors go for brilliant, somewhat far-out titles such as Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, “We Can Remember it for You Wholesale”, “Flow my Tears, The Policeman Said” ). Or the clever…