CLICK! At 5:36am – that’s less than half an hour ago – I heard a click. I love hearing that click. I hear it every morning at some point between 5 and 6 o’clocks, though if I’m having one of my daring weekend sleep-ins, it could be as late as 6:45. CLICK! I stand to attention when I hear it. I’ve spent two minutes […]
I am boiling mad, because some people I’ve never met didn’t get to have the cup of tea I wanted them to have on the other side of the globe. And I feel I’ve let them down. I’ve just looked back over the tweets where I’ve got stuck into any organisation for a lack of service. And whilst not a big […]
There’s a client I go to see once a month. He is the local rep for a national company, so he is their only person in this state. He works from a home office, so when I see him, we sit around his kitchen table. Usually, he has the kettle on when I get there, and two of those godforsaken yellow tags […]
Readers of my previous post Tea and The Art of Friendship may recall it had a central theme that was a bit mad. Essentially, it suggested a Tea Party where anyone from around the world could join in at the appointed hour, via Skype. I chose a date and time – it was actually 6:30am on a Sunday in Adelaide, South Australia where I […]
“Inspiration have I none/but to touch the flaming dove” As I have the world’s best memory for song lyrics (sadly teamed with the voice of a half-mad donkey), I can tell you I dredged that up from the memory of an album I last heard maybe 25 years ago, Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of […]
I’m pretty observant. For a male, that is. Also, I like to think I can consider all sides to an issue, before I decide who is sweetly innocent and who needs to be tased. So, let’s talk about Princes. Even today, it’s permissible for a little girl, growing up in the Western world, to dream of marrying […]
Readers of my blog of late have found it turned mostly into a tea travelogue. Not because I’ve changed focus, but because I tend to write about what I’m thinking of, and I think about my next decent cup of tea a lot. I have completely covered my efforts to source good loose leaf tea […]
I’ve been prolific this week. There’s been so much to talk about as I have absorbed Thailand like a great big sponge. I’ll be writing two other posts, with pictures aplenty. But here’s how it ends. Twenty six hours from departure, and I’ve still not found a basic teapot or any significant quantities of Thai tea. Or much of any […]
I returned to the little shop where I’d found the Raming Organic Jasmine tea. If you haven’t read about that, then you’ve sadly missed out on the blockbuster tea buying adventure story of the decade and you need to start about six blog entries back. I decided to buy another couple of boxes and try […]
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 […]