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  • Teawares Card Game

    Do your teawares have a secret life, that is, recreational activities they engage in when they’re not busy steeping tea for you? Yes, it sounds silly and downright improbable, after all, these are inanimate, insentient objects. Right? Well, we thought so, too, until… Ever have one of those nights when you try and try and… Continue reading

  • A Nosegay Made of Tea

    Make your nose gay with a nosegay made of tea. Floral nosegays have been around for centuries. Now, making them from tea is a new twist on this tradition. Nosegays are small bouquets, usually arranged in a round, rather than cascading, shape and made with flowers chosen in large part for their fragrance. Types of… Continue reading

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  • Tea and Biscuits

      I’m sure that people can give you a lot of reasons why cups come with a saucer. To make them easier to carry, to protect the table from rings and spills, because it looks good. These are all rubbish. It’s to give you somewhere to put the biscuits. (To clarify for you heathens on… Continue reading

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  • Fabulous Friday Teatime

    A lot of our lifestyle in the U.S. is based on much of our workforce working at jobs during about 8 or 9 a.m. to around 5 p.m. and having some “me” time on the weekends, starting on Friday nights, quite often. Seems like a natural for holding a fabulous Friday teatime! First of all,… Continue reading

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  • Tea Traditions — South America

    Tea traditions in South America don’t just involve true tea (from the Camellia Sinensis bush). They also involve two beverages made from different plants entirely but confusingly also called tea by the locals and by various tea vendors: guayusa (pronounced gwa-YOO-sa) and Yerba maté (pronounced MAH-tay). All three beverages have to be considered when looking… Continue reading

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  • What Do I Do with the Tea I Don’t Like?

    Do you know about FLYlady–the home blessing instructor? If you do, then you know about the lessons on decluttering cabinets and counters. I looked in my cabinet at my various containers of tea, a cabinet that seriously needs decluttering. I have been in recent years attempting to broaden my tea horizons by sampling many different… Continue reading

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  • In the Leaves for March

    It is time again for us to part the murky brown water of time and peer in to the tea cup of the future. Here is my mystical wisdom to guide you through the remainder of the month. The first portents from this months excellent cup of Assam were a cat, two hills and a… Continue reading

  • The Civilizing Effect of Tea

    Tea stimulates. Tea relaxes. Above all, tea civilizes. From the earliest days, when this beverage was reserved for royalty to modern times when “high tea” has morphed from being an evening meal for the working class to a fancy pinky-pointing expensive affair at the local tearoom, we all experience the civilizing effect of tea. Drinking… Continue reading

  • A Passion for Tea

    I had something of an epiphany in a restaurant the other day. We were served by an example of the kind of sommelier so over the top that they’re completely immune to parody. His explanation of one particular glass of wine easily doubled my knowledge of the entire subject. Wine isn’t really my thing but… Continue reading

  • We’ve Survived the Winter!

    It’s been a long cold winter in my part of the world but spring is finally here. There are daffodils and crocuses everywhere, the birds are singing incessantly, the walking bundles of coats have turned back in to people and even the English have stopped moaning about the weather. In my humble opinion it is… Continue reading

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