Today, a quick post about Lady Devotea. Not the @LadyDevotea , my better half, but the tea named in her honour. The first photo shows where it starts: It’s our orange tree. It’s an odd tree, it has several crops per year, and often it has several different types of orange per crop. It’s either a clever hybrid, or a new […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In many cultures, certain days have power. They may be auspicious, or indeed inauspicious. The 29th of May, for example, is a day of power. “Oh yes”, I can hear you all thinking. “That’s the day in 1912 when fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, USA, for dancing […]
I interrupt my regular schedule to be serious for a moment., That’s quite hard to do, when I was working on what should become my next post “Two wrongs don’t make a white”. That will now wait. There are many people in the US and the UK that have been kind enough to indicate a great excitement about our […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]