Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts

Category: Tea and Life

  • The Land of Plenty

    Once more hurling ourselves into the unknown in search of tea, it’s time for Tesco/Lotus a supermarket joint venture between Tesco of the UK and Lotus of Thailand. It’s large! The only other Tesco I’ve been is in in Pitsea, Essex and this would give that one a run for its money. Now, the whole…

  • Taking Tea with The Buddha

    Forgive the fact that this blog actually follows on from the one I will probably write next. I’ve been working a new one up all day in my head, and then inspiration strikes and these words and thoughts come tumbling out. There’s a reason for that. And as the old saying goes, it’s in the…

  • Smarter than Smokie

    Regular readers will know that I am travelling at the moment. Yesterday, Lady Devotea and I celebrated 25 years of marriage. We met when I was 19, we’ve been inseparable ever since. We moved in together a few weeks after that, and we married almost exactly two years later. And yesterday was a remarkable day.…

  • Dancing the cha-cha

    Whilst on this sojourn; I have probably decided to blog more than my “once a week”, twice if I feel like it” usual regime. If limited connectivity allows me to. That’s because I hope I have new things to say, and like all my blog entries; they have a connection to tea. Luckily, tea in…

  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

    This morning I did something that will make you all wince, but luckily, there was a shot at redemption. Background: 6 hours sleep in 48. I don’t sleep much – usually from midnight to 5 or 5:30, it’s enough. I’ve got this personality where I’m incredibly immune to stress and worry. I can push it…

  • I’m not a Peasant Plucker, but…

    Radhika doesn’t really have time to enjoy the first rays of the watery sun. It will be baking hot soon enough. She reaches into the first Camellia Sinensis var. Assamica shrub of the many she will confront over the coming hours, and expertly picks the top two leaves, with a central bud, and drops them into the basket slung around her shoulder. Ranjiv’s hands fly as…

  • A Matter of Style

    I’ve got the uncomfortable feeling I should be writing something. Can’t think what. So I’ve been drinking tea and blogging about writing. Which is like writing to avoid writing. It’s like I’m trying to drink myself sober. So, let’s talk about style. Remember this from The King James Bible: ..and the Devil spake unto them,…

  • Tea Creation Myths

    When you’re a tea blender and a writer, the two concepts just seem to go together. I suppose most of us know the story of the origin of tea. Here it is from Wikipedia: According to legend, tea was first discovered by the Chinese emperor and inventor Shennong in 2737 BCE. It is said that…

  • Swinging both ways

    I think that sometimes, we have to not just come out of the closet, but burn the closet door. I’ve never been dishonest about my preferences, or the fact that I like to experiment. I mean, most people experiment a bit, maybe in their youth, at college or university or whatever. But then they settle…

  • Royal Tea

    A few days ago I tweeted that I was going write a shockingly controversial post. This is not that post. That post is still under development.  But let’s plunge on to a longwinded journey of discovery anyway… Consider the Australian system of Government. First sidebar: The Head of State of The Commonwealth of Australia is…