Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts

Category: Tea and Life

  • Another Day, Another Tea Tease

    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…

  • We’re gonna make it after aaaaalllllll….

    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…

  • My Own Private Finnvitka

    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…

  • Universal Domination, One Cup At a Time

    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…

  • Gazumped!

    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…

  • Where’s the funny bits now, hey?

    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…

  • A Tale of Two Civvies

    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…

  • Two Wrongs don’t make a White

    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…

  • All The Young Dudes

    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…

  • 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…