Dateline:yesterday.
For once it wasn’t the cat that woke me with his hunger driven protests, but the dull bass moan of a foghorn.
Of Mist And Melancholia
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Fengqing 2017 Gushu
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2017 Yunnan Organic Shou
This beeng was ordered way back in mid-April from House of Tea as an emergency stash reinforcement, when we were unsure as to how the unfolding pandemic was going to affect the tea supply.
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Farmer Leaf Summer 2018 Jingmai Moonlight
This is the third and final post about the teas that made up my first order with Farmer Leaf.
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Ying Xian
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Farmer Leaf Spring 2019 Jingmai Miyun
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The Tea Library – Tales of the Tea Trade, by Michelle and Rob Comins
This was one of those books that everyone seemed to be reading earlier in the year, and given all the good reviews I read I simply had to order a copy for my own tea library.
2020 Dung Ding
My supplies of Bai Mu Dan, my morning leaf of choice, were rapidly dwindling, so I had to either make an order sharpish, or risk going without.
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Farmer Leaf Autumn 2018 Jingmai Gushu
Over the past few months it felt as though I’d been giving priority to the daily drinker side of my stash, so when I found the tea buying coffers pleasantly full I decided to have a mini splurge of sorts.
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Hong Yu White
I first spotted these leaves when I was logged onto House of Tea to re-stock on their Bai Mu Dan.
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Tagged gong-fu cha, Red Jade, Taiwanese tea, tea, teaism, white tea
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