I’m on record as being unmoved by both Japanese teas and Japanese tea culture and ceremonies. Taking your shoes off, sitting on a rush mat and admiring a stick in a vase does not in any way cause me to suddenly enjoy tea that is too bitter, and/or too thin, and/or looks like second-hand bile […]
There are some people who see Valentine’s Day as a crass commercial cardfest, and I guess it can be. But I think it’s a memory pin; it’s a thing that reminds you to stop wasting synaptic electricity washing the car, watching TV or researching a controversial blog you’ve been promising for ages, and think about […]
I have been promising a major blog post for a few weeks now, but it’s tied up in the research phase. Soon, I promise. Meanwhile, I opened my front door to a mysterious package from Philadelphia. What could it be? It transpires that when I was looking at Kickstarter a few years back, I found […]
My friends, my blogging has slowed to a crawl. I could make many excuses, but I think the simple truth is my need for sharing my bad temper and sarcasm is being assuaged in other forms. There’s Facebook, where a quick twenty words can elicit a great response. There’s the blog I’m writing for someone else, […]
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. (Horace) My friends, this is it. This is the blog you need to share with your friends, your colleagues, your enemies, your competitors, your relatives. It’s the point where tea takes front and centre stage. It’s rightful place. No more […]
Note: There was a request that my 200th post be some tea fiction. As I am planning an e-book of tea fiction soon, it seems a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion, Mr Norman! The airlock looked to be the last barrier between the existence of humanity and the extinction of humanity. And it was […]
Thanks to a post started by Lu Ann, author of The Cup Of Life, I’ve been tagged by Jen at International Tea Moment (@teamoment on twitter) to answer a stack of impertinent questions and then link some other poor soul to do the same. 1) First, let’s start with how you were introduced & fell in love […]
Today is Melbourne Cup Day, which is one of the biggest days in the Australian Calender. It used to be about horse racing; these days there is more interest in third-rate imported celebrities, drunken rich men and above all, women who exude an odd combination of shiny clothing, copious quantities of vodka and what appears […]
A while ago, here in fact, I admitted to being bi-beverage. I also mentioned our coffee business, which was quite short-lived as tea put it in it’s place. There is actually a blend of coffee called TD Smooth, which is only available at The Devotea’s Pop-Up Tea Shop. But I digress. I have something important […]
Even though I am proudly Australian, I’m also reasonably English. My ancestry was all English not that far back. On my mother’s side, it goes back to a bunch of Methodist brothers – actual brothers, not in a monkish sense -who left England in the mid to late 1800s because Victorian England wasn’t uptight enough for […]