Series Note: If you haven’t noticed by now, I’ve decided to write a self-indulgent series that covers all our blends and what inspired them. Never mind, I’ll be back to ranting in week or so. This is Part IV. Flowers in tea can be a wonderful combination. Now I know that some people will disagree. […]
Series Note: I’ve decided to write a series that covers all our blends and what inspired them. And this is Part III Our White Tea Concoctions range is so far only available in Australia, but I’m sure that a few thousand people marching through the streets of your town will convince us to immediately start supplying them to your area, […]
Series Note: I’ve decided to write a series that covers all our blends and what inspired them. And this is it. Part II Many of our teas are the result of several people working together, or about inspiration from elsewhere. I’m going to start today with one that is all about me. I love “Moroccan Mint” […]
Series Note: I’ve decided to write a series that covers all our blends and what inspired them. And this is it. Part I Two of our most well known blends are Lord Petersham and The Duchess. And they are interrelated. A chance remark by Meredith Henderson, known on twitter as “bckmph” led to an image […]
There’s a cast in this post. There’s me, and Lady Devotea, whom regular readers will know and adore. There is also our eldest son. As our other son has been referred to on this blog as “Devotea Junior”, let’s call this recently returned one “The Prodigal”. The Prodigal is in Australia for just a few weeks after a year […]
Last night, Lady Devotea and I put on an event. A tea event, naturally! As part of the Adelaide Wine & Food Festival, we have struggled to get noticed above the parapet of the festivals’s focus, which is wine and seafood, wine and beef,wine and more wine, wine, a bit more food with wine, and wine. Nevertheless, […]
This is my 150th post on this Tea Trade blog. It’s true that this is only my sesquicentennial post if you do not count a couple of dozen on various other blogs I contribute to around Tea Trade. It’s not like I hold back at all. Heck, some of my comments on other people’s blogs are longer than […]
Lady Devotea and I saw Elvis Costello at the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide sometime in the 90s. Much as we like his recordings, in person he was aloof: ignoring the audience and seemed intent on adding a discordant note to his more popular songs. It was self-indulgent on his part and we did not enjoy it much. A few weeks ago we saw him […]
Well, thanks for reading. You might be a regular or you might be one of the 47% of readers each time I blog that is new to this site. You may be a lovely tea person, or you may be a filthy spammer. For this exercise, it doesn’t matter. I’d like to think some people enjoy my […]
I remember a joke told by the late comedian Dave Allen, in a TV show I watched in the 70s as a young teenager. The story, possibly apocryphal, possibly not, is about the infamous “firebrand preacher” or ‘insane bigot who exhorted his followers to pile violence upon violence ” (depending on your viewpoint), The Reverend Dr Ian Paisley. The story goes that Paisley was thundering a lecture […]