I have been talking with the Official Teemeister of All Germany, Ken (@lahikmajoe), about his travails in a tea shop in Berlin. Via email, tweet, his blog, storify and live. It’s been big. Basically, to boil it down, he found a teashop operated by a complete nutjob. Amongst other things this wingnut believes, he believes he has the right to add […]
Last year, one of my most popular posts was Tea Roulette, where I just blathered on about random subjects. Thankfully, I’ve created a stunt to get away with that again. I have a bunch of idea that never made it to their own blog post, and I”ve arranged them on post-it notes in a circle. I shall now […]
I watch a lot of TV. It’s how Lady D and I like to spend an evening, in amongst our busy round of social engagements and musical soirees. There are several things though, that grind my gears in TV-land. I don’t know how they do it elsewhere, but here in Australia, it’s not enough to advertise a product […]
I have a score to settle. Yesterday, I went for walk down The Parade with Lady Devotea. As previously mentioned, that’s a street here in Adelaide. About 40 minutes away from our house. On this occasion it was the Food and Wine Fair. It was very hot – well very hot-ish – and we walked the length and breadth, poking into little homewares shops and and […]
As I’m about to cover in a tea video on blending, I’ve never had a formal education in tea. I learnt by hanging around tea types, owning a tea shop, and drinking gallons of the stuff weekly. A while ago, the inestimable @lahikmajoe wrote about whether it is OK for tea geeks to not like white tea, and of course, it isn’t. However, […]
Valentine’s Day has been and gone, and except for one thing, it went pretty smoothly, not counting the tent*. The missing component was my Valentine’s Day Video. I’ll not be releasing one this year. I shot it over three session and two days, it included three or four great dishes. And then I sat down […]
A few years back, we ran a tea and coffee shop, and for the most part, the people who came into it were within the range of ‘extremely pleasant and well mannered’ down to a ‘trifle surly’. Once a man came in, shouted that our range of gelati was not vegan – not that we’d ever claimed it was – and then left, still shouting. My […]
I agree with @lahikmajoe, (otherwise known as Ken in that mystical arena called Real Life that I have only a passing connection to). But then again, I don’t. You see, Ken took the opportunity to advise someone who was in a supermarket and contemplating a virginal tea purchase. He asked a few questions about how that person took their […]
Today, on Australia Day, I launch the first of my new global tea sales sites, hosted by Tea Trade. This site which ships from an Australian distribution Centre will be followed by two others as soon as possible, and perhaps more. Certainly I intend to have the US up by April and the UK up […]
I have just learned that an on-line friend, @mildewpea has passed away; as a result of an accident. When I was making my first few videos and engaging with the tea community, there was no-one more encouraging than Milly. Milly was Tea Twitter family. Her first ever tweet to me, I remember, was when she […]