Las Vegas. Why would I want to go there? Its very name conjures up images: not always good ones. Mostly of course, it’s murders. I watched at least the first six seasons of CSI and I learned that in Las Vegas, a bunch of people get murdered every day and it takes 45 minutes (including commercials) […]
Wouldn’t you know it, in the middle of getting knighted for services to tea, my alarm went off and woke me up. Still, I thought it could be an omen, so I checked the mail box to make sure there wasn’t anything official in it from Her Maj. Nothing. Looks like I’ll be passed over again this time for the New Year’s Honours list. […]
THE PREQUEL: I was all a-tinker, In my super secret lab, Whilst Lady D was tasting tea, And rating it as “fab”. Whilst blending nice new teas Are the purpose of the site Often times we try our hand At putting other things to rights The transference of people From comfy point-to-point Cold nuclear fission Or teaching […]
A post about Sencha? Well, no. Not really. Though a man dressed as Father Christmas once bought some Wild Cherry Sencha from our tea shop long ago and inspired the title, this is a post about words. Two words: One of them is utilitarian, one quite delightful. Seen as interchangeable, but I’d argue against it being so. The first […]
So, you drink loose leaf tea? Excellent. Not for you that rubbish that comes in bags. You prefer quality, and taste. I fully support you in this. And one thing more we might agree on, is that the ‘convenience’ argument is pretty limp, isn’t it? “Oh, a teabag is soooo much easier than using an infuser […]
If you look at 18th and 19th English tea caddies, you’ll see they have a lock. Often, the key was kept around a trusted neck – the head servant, or even the lady of the house. Tea was (and I think is) a precious commodity. And it wasn’t used only once. I remember seeing a […]
In the past, on some occasions, I’ve been portrayed as a person of strong opinions, in various fora. Yes, fora, not ‘forums’ . This is something else I feel strongly about. But I digress. ‘Tea people’ often have strong opinions. After all, if you are the kind of person that stands up against the sort of […]
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 […]
With all the fuss about the US election of late, I wondered about tea. All that footage of people lining up to vote for hours brings us the obvious questions: Why the big lines? Surely they knew that people would be wanting to vote? And why so few flasks of tea? I guess if you have a two-hour wait, […]
We are in search of a tea plantation. It’s here somewhere. Four miles to go, and we were ten minutes before our allotted time. Should be easy. We turn off the smallish highway into a quite small road. “In 100 yards, turn right”, squawked Google Maps. I know what you are thinking at this point: “Miles? Yards? What’s with […]