I have a terrible problem at times with lack of focus. In a sustained burst. I can get huge quantities of work done. But if something interesting happens whilst I’m trying to do it, or I get a sudden inspiration, then I can just skip away. Projects that are delayed might never happen, as I get involved […]
PART ONE: As I write this, I am sitting in a café with no internet connection and really bad tea. The café itself is lovely with good food, great ambiance, live jazz at times, decent coffee and some unusual beverages. More on those later. Excuse me whilst I lick the delicious milk foam from my lips. […]
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 […]
The following is another snippet from my forthcoming book” The Heart of Tea”. Don’t forget to add yourself to the mailing list here. This time, it’s some fiction Tea Fiction: The End Of The World There really is a button. You know, THE button. The one that means that our nukes will whistle past their nukes and we’ll […]
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 […]
I know that regular readers will be hoping, that unlike my other 93 posts on this blog, I may get to the point quickly. After all from the title, the post is clearly about style, and what could be more stylish than a quick, to-the-point, blog post? Now, I don’t mean to divert us all sideways […]
The Heart of Tea, a book I have been writing on and off for about a year, WILL be released in 2012. When is anyone’s guess. When I’m happy with it, I suppose. Here’s a snippet. It’s annoyingly the first bit of a much longer piece. Just as a taste tester. Tea Pioneers: Twining Thomas Twining annoys […]
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 […]
So, last night was a big night. As many of you know, I am preparing a series of videos for the Annual Spring White Tea event in New York, and I am also hoping I can be there via the big screen using the latest of satellite technology, and by that I mean Skype or Google hangouts. Last night was the shooting of […]
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 […]