A deadline approaches I can feel it in air Something special is needed Prose beyond compare My next post is special There’s Great Expectations It’s time for the big one 200 posts – a celebration Almost three years ago I switched to Tea Trade As a new fun place For my rants and tirades Friendships […]
We’ve always been animal people. I don’t mean I have furry skin and six nipples, just that we love animals. And we’ve always had pets. A couple of dogs, and many cats. Horses. Ducks. Geese. Chickens. More besides. Last week, one of our much-loved cats passed away suddenly. We don’t know why. It may have […]
Thanks to a post started by Lu Ann, author of The Cup Of Life, I’ve been tagged by Jen at International Tea Moment (@teamoment on twitter) to answer a stack of impertinent questions and then link some other poor soul to do the same. 1) First, let’s start with how you were introduced & fell in love […]
I was carrying a small bag of chamomile the other day… “WHAT!!”, I hear you interrupt, leaping to your feet. “CHAMOMILE? YOU? YOU HATE IT” Yes, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, I was carrying a bag of chamomile. Ok, so that might seem an unexpected thing for us to stock […]
Today is Melbourne Cup Day, which is one of the biggest days in the Australian Calender. It used to be about horse racing; these days there is more interest in third-rate imported celebrities, drunken rich men and above all, women who exude an odd combination of shiny clothing, copious quantities of vodka and what appears […]
A while ago, here in fact, I admitted to being bi-beverage. I also mentioned our coffee business, which was quite short-lived as tea put it in it’s place. There is actually a blend of coffee called TD Smooth, which is only available at The Devotea’s Pop-Up Tea Shop. But I digress. I have something important […]
I’m coming up to 200 posts since I moved my blog to this location, and there have been a few clear themes. It’s a tea blog, and every blog has been about tea, however peripherally, and this is no exception. I have lambasted many an establishment or event for the sheer stupidity of not having […]
Even though I am proudly Australian, I’m also reasonably English. My ancestry was all English not that far back. On my mother’s side, it goes back to a bunch of Methodist brothers – actual brothers, not in a monkish sense -who left England in the mid to late 1800s because Victorian England wasn’t uptight enough for […]
500 cups of tea – at least – have been consumed. The evidence is overwhelming. In front of me is a package that once contained a kilogram of tea. It now contains nothing. I do not remember ever spilling any, I never gave any loose tea away. Lady Devotea does not like this tea, so […]
That first morning cup. It is part of clearly defined morning routine. Every day I clone the day before when I awake: a two minute parade of cats and newspapers and tasks done on autopilot. Buried in there is flicking on the electric kettle. The first item that is not done on autopilot is the […]