500 cups of tea – at least – have been consumed. The evidence is overwhelming. In front of me is a package that once contained a kilogram of tea. It now contains nothing. I do not remember ever spilling any, I never gave any loose tea away. Lady Devotea does not like this tea, so […]
This might surprise you, but I regularly visit a tea shop. Lady Devotea and I run two businesses, and the one that isn’t tea requires meeting with a number of people. As our home town of Adelaide is long and thin, running from North to South, it can be quite a distance from one bit […]
Before I share with you the outrageous information that has given me a head of steam for this blog post, let me tell you first how it came about. I was listening to my favourite radio programme, ABC Conversations, which is basically just someone having a good ol’ natter about their life and times with […]
A few years ago, I missed the boat. I wrote a book that had a lot of vampires in it; and whilst Stephanie Meyer has been so successful with that particular genre that it makes me want to smash something, my book was not a commercial success. And yet, in my books, rather than mooning […]
Reading some recent press reports, there’s a blockade in Darjeeling that might well affect the tea business. The guys behind it are Gorkhas, which is sometimes transliterated as Gurkhas. So, if the word seems familiar, it’s because Gurkha regiments have been part of the British Army for a long time. An indigenous people of Nepali […]
There’s a blog about tea simmering away in my head. Usually they come to the boil within a day or two, but this one won’t, so I found myself simply searching through tea news for something to blog about. Searching through tea news? How does one do that? Obviously I read a bunch of blogs, […]
What with the fuss over stupid sports, I thought there was a few that had got it right. And there are plenty of stupid sports. Grown men driving cars in circles? Hardly a sport! Banging a ball about with a metal stick, which also doubles as a great way to smack up your husband’s car […]
The Fourth of July is special to many of my American friends. Sure, it maybe should have been the 2nd of July, sometimes it’s called Independence Day and the declaration of Independence was probably actually signed in August according to Wikipedia, but it’s quite specific when you refer to it as “The Fourth of July”. In […]
On board an Amtrak train, knowing that the only way to get good tea is to boil the kettle we have concealed under the table using their free electricity and then using our travel teapot, I’m pondering two things that occurred at 30th street station in Philadelphia just before we departed, whilst avoiding the gaze […]
Lady Devotea and I recently spent a couple of days with @jackie and @peter from Tea Trade. It was almost a 100% perfect experience. It was good company and good tea, plenty of both. It was amazingly hospitable hosts, a lovely and very novel part of America for us and it was quite relaxing after […]