The following is another snippet from my forthcoming book” The Heart of Tea”. Don’t forget to add yourself to the mailing list here. This time, it’s some fiction Tea Fiction: The End Of The World There really is a button. You know, THE button. The one that means that our nukes will whistle past their nukes and we’ll […]
As a very young child I recall watching the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I must have been about 8 or maybe 10, and it was one of my mother’s favourite shows. Mum ruled the TV roost in my house as a kid, and not much has changed, she is quite capable of walking into a house where she is […]
I know that regular readers will be hoping, that unlike my other 93 posts on this blog, I may get to the point quickly. After all from the title, the post is clearly about style, and what could be more stylish than a quick, to-the-point, blog post? Now, I don’t mean to divert us all sideways […]
Yesterday was cold. “Cold” by my standards – from about 4 to 7 degrees Celsius. Now in case you live in one of the three countries in the world that retains the 17th century Fahrenheit scale as its official scale – The Cayman Islands, Belize or the United States of America* – that’s 40 to 45 in […]
I wasn’t overly well last night, and consequently, spend much of yesterday evening asleep. Awoke feeling a little better, and decided to share a blog. A blog of loveliness, warmth and feeling, tinged with sadness. Not like me at all, really. Yesterday there was a charity high tea, as evidenced by this photo, showing our […]
Invariably, when I write a blog post, it has funny bits in it. I could call my blog “Tea with Funny Bits”, except that it would then not be appropriate when I go off on a full scale rant. But today, no time for funny bits. We are rather busy here, @ladydevotea and I. You would all expect that, as it […]
So, last night was a big night. As many of you know, I am preparing a series of videos for the Annual Spring White Tea event in New York, and I am also hoping I can be there via the big screen using the latest of satellite technology, and by that I mean Skype or Google hangouts. Last night was the shooting of […]
Tetracloroethylene. Just let that chemical name roll over your tongue. Tet-ra-clor-o-eth-y-lene. Does it sound remotely tasty? I think not. Back in 1981, I was in Year 11 Chemistry class. I believe the besser-block walls of the Eyre High Chemistry Lab Number One probably still bear the stains of of phenol-blue fight I had with Billy Christopolous that year. Certainly […]
The title above is that of a song written by David Bowie for Mott The Hoople. Now Mott The Hoople are just a footnote in music history these days. Three albums from 1969-1971 failed to be much of a commercial success and they had more or less decided to break up. Enter David Bowie into the story – he […]
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 […]