Category Archives: tea diary

Out With The Old, In With The New

Well, my sipdown project has rolled over into 2021, with the on-going objective of freeing up space in my tea cupboards to accommodate newer, fresher teas.

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A Book And A Brew

I think the time’s about right for this one now, a full year after it happened.

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Tarp, Trangia, And Tea

It was a good weekend.

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Parklife 2

It was all Teaist Junior’s idea.

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A Big Old Pot Of Sheng

Trigger warning: possible intermediary level fanboyism and incoherent rambling ahead.

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Of Mist And Melancholia

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.

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A Place For Everything…

…and everything in its place… When I unexpectedly found the remains of a tuo that I thought I’d polished off some time ago it became apparent that I really needed to re-organise my stash.

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Steeper At The Gates Of Dawn

Or, “Ode To Some Beautiful Leaves I Infused On My Balcony One Midsummer Morning”

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Twenty-one Again

A short while ago I celebrated my birthday, and my womenfolk only went and spoiled me rotten with three wonderful pressies that, somewhat unsurprisingly, were tea themed.

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Strange Days – This and That

Deja Pu The other day I had what I can only describe as some kind of a tea flashback.

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