Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts

Category: Tea Retail

  • Returning to the Tea of the Crime

    I remember reading a blog post with pride. Sadly, you can’t read it now. It’s been removed. It was by @jackie of Tea Trade, and was a great rant about poor tea and poorer service. It dripped with sarcasm. Naturally, I felt that it was my influence rubbing off on our normally mild-mannered Tea Trade…

  • Enter and Exit: World Tea Expo

    Panel over. Walking Back. Breakfast. The coffee is bad, but Michael Coffey turns up with his lovely partner. Have a good flight! Let’s go. Walking back again. It’s hot. It’s hot. It’s very hot. It’s… cool. Peach water. Peachy. Nice. New Zealand Water, why? Drink made from oats. Why? Whoops- this is the Healthy Beverage…

  • Lady Devotea’s Fancy (Devotea Origins Part III)

    Series Note: I’ve decided to write a series that covers all our blends and what inspired them. And this is Part III Our White Tea Concoctions range is so far only available in Australia, but I’m sure that a few thousand people marching through the streets of your town will convince us to immediately start supplying them to your area,…

  • Making a Mint (Devotea Origins Part II)

    Series Note: I’ve decided to write a series that covers all our blends and what inspired them. And this is it. Part II Many of our teas are the result of several people working together, or about inspiration from elsewhere. I’m going to start today with one that is all about me. I love “Moroccan Mint”…

  • No Shame, but Plenty of Blame

    I know from the evidence of my own 1.8 eyes (one’s not very good) that people often order coffee at the end of a meal. Most people do not eat out every day. Sure, some people might buy the same plastic burger everyday for lunch or start each day with an oil-soaked hash brown served at somewhere between the boiling point of titanium and the temperature of a…

  • The Only Way is Ethics

    A recent post by a fellow Tea Trader has got me thinking about issues like standards of behaviour, conflict of interest and business ethics generally. Now, let’s firstly dissect the phrase “business ethics”. As far as I’m concern that means ethical considerations in relation to running a business. It does not imply that “business ethics” is somehow different to “personal ethics”. And…

  • Output

    I once put in a pop-up sprinkler system to water our garden. That was in the days when it was sprinklers that were pop-up, not restaurants.  The first stage involved measuring the water flow rate. This was done by using two scientific implements, a watch and a bucket. I filled the bucket with water and timed the…

  • Steps to a Tea Spangled Christmas

    I’ve been quiet of late on the blogging front. On-line generally.  A few blogs here and there, a few incredibly funny or incredibly venomous comments – the best ones are both. But not much. I notice it has coincided with with a couple of other bloggers also going to ground a bit. Between @lazy_literatus and…

  • Dear Father Christmas

    DECEMBER 8th, 1970 Dear Father Christmas I am five and my brother is three and if there were any naughty stuffs done it was johns fault and i want some tea and a bike. Robby Aged 5 DECEMBER 12, 1971 Dear Father Christmas Last year you forgot my bike. Can you remember this time? Also thank you…

  • Tea and The Dawn of History

    Here’s yet another blog where I combine tea and history and travel, albeit with quite a misleading title. From this photo, taken from our hotel window this morning, you might assume we are somewhere tropical. Not so. We are in Kingscote, because both Lady Devotea and I have been commissioned to write articles for upcoming editions of…