Today’s tea is a white tea, not as in tea with milk but as in a particular minimally processed tea drunk without milk. White tea suffers from health claims coming out of its silvery tips, including claims that it can … Continue reading
It’s 11:15 on a Saturday, a working Saturday at that, and I have a mandated teabreak: what better time to taste my advent tea? Today we have Darjeeling Mango Tree 2nd Flush Black Tea, and who doesn’t love a darjeeling? … Continue reading
Now this is more like it: late morning cup of tea, and almost midday before I even glanced at my laptop. Furthermore, the tea, Vietnam Mountain Snow – spoiler alert – is excellent. Like an Assam without the bitterness, it … Continue reading
I have been getting curiouser and curiouser about this tea, all day, and of course the day has got away with me again. I didn’t even get the chance to write this post while drinking the tea, because I still … Continue reading
It is the 2nd December, grey and drizzly outside, and I’ve been hacking away at the coalface of student feedback all day. A spare hour emerged, in which I have done some yoga, and finally got to the point in … Continue reading
Browsing through the archives, I am unsurprised to notice how often I moan about advent calendars, those expensive pieces of packaging justified by a miniscule volume of cheap chocolate, which I usually enjoy ripping the back off and consuming in … Continue reading
In a world where political and public health decisions are dictated by the Great Festival of Consumption, Uborka carries on, friendly and free. Mince pies are absolutely not allowed this week, because the Great Festival of Consumption doesn’t start until … Continue reading
It may be late in the day for me to mention this, but you are invited as always to this afternoon’s cocktail hour, the link for which is below. Today’s theme is ZOOM.