Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts

Category: Tea and Life

  • We Might Have Started the Fire

    Everything that Billy Joel has even done has been a spectacular success, apart from having a daughter with a supermodel that sadly looks like him and the very public way that same supermodel’s infidelity came to light via a helicopter crash. But other than those, it’s all been pretty good, and one of the more successful efforts was “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. In it, he takes exception to…

  • Assam I Am

    It’s an interesting phenomenon amongst Doctor Who fans that everyone has one actor they consider ‘their’ Doctor. If you live outside the civilised world and have no idea what I’m talking about, it’s a TV show that has been on the TV since the 60s (with a 13 year break) and the actor playing the main character changes every so often. This works…

  • Year of Living Boisterously

    OK, I just made an important decision. And then remade it. Last night, Daylight Saving ended here. And that magical hour was restored to us. A few years ago in one of my other blogs I wrote about my son’s plans to use that hour to travel in time. It was a great idea and a great blog; but I can’t…

  • Step In To My Parlour

    Warning: This post contains virtually no tea. May contain traces of self-analysis, narcissism and Dr Phil moments. I am about to paraphrase what someone said to me. Now, I know that you expect hard-hitting, no-holds-barred, 100% accurate reportage from me, as I am known as a fearless warrior for the truth about tea. But I am forced to paraphrase. You see, I said something in…

  • Eleven Golden Permissions

    I have been talking with the Official Teemeister of All Germany, Ken (@lahikmajoe), about his travails in a tea shop in Berlin. Via email, tweet, his blog, storify and live. It’s been big. Basically, to boil it down, he found a teashop operated by a complete nutjob.  Amongst other things this wingnut believes, he believes he has the right to add…

  • Spin the Teapot

    Last year, one of my most popular posts was Tea Roulette, where I just blathered on about random subjects. Thankfully, I’ve created a stunt to get away with that again. I have a bunch of idea that never made it to their own blog post, and I”ve arranged them on post-it notes in a circle. I shall now…

  • More Lapsang Souchong, your Ladyship?

    I watch a lot of TV. It’s how Lady D and I like to spend an evening, in amongst our busy round of social engagements and musical soirees. There are several things though, that grind my gears in TV-land. I don’t know how they do it elsewhere, but here in Australia, it’s not enough to advertise a product…

  • My Dodgy Valentine

    Valentine’s Day has been and gone, and except for one thing, it went pretty smoothly, not counting the tent*. The missing component was my Valentine’s Day Video. I’ll not be releasing one this year. I shot it over three session and two days, it included three or four great dishes. And then I sat down…

  • Charity begins at homelessness

    A few years back, we ran a tea and coffee shop, and for the most part, the people who came into it were within the range of ‘extremely pleasant and well mannered’ down to a ‘trifle surly’. Once a man came in, shouted that our range of gelati was not vegan – not that we’d ever claimed it was – and then left, still shouting. My…

  • We can all try a little bit harder…

    I agree with @lahikmajoe, (otherwise known as Ken in that mystical arena called Real Life that I have only a passing connection to). But then again, I don’t. You see, Ken took the opportunity to advise someone who was in a  supermarket and contemplating a virginal tea purchase. He asked a few questions about how that person took their…