Category Archives: tea thoughts

Lessons With a Master

There’s a term in Chinese, Chá rén (茶人), literally “tea person“, that succinctly sums up someone who’s life seems to revolve around tea, and no-one better represents the concept than Master Lin Ping Xiang.

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Monday Musings

The fruits of three pre-lunch pots of tea…

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Quote of the Day

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Broken Cup, Empty Leaves

The teacup bears the scars of a collision with a much larger gaiwan, a trauma it was never going to recover from.

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Party Tea

Summer in Scandinavia can feel sometimes like a “blink and you’ll miss it” affair.

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A Different Sort of Cliff Tea

Every tea event is unique in its own way – the hundreds of variables concerning water, leaves, people and the tea drinking environment could never be replicated.

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Les Grandes Vacances

It’s that time of the year again, when Clan Teaist decamps to our place in the country for our summer holiday.

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Spreading the Word

The world of tea is vast indeed.

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Quote of the Day

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Start As You Mean To Go On

In his classic novella “The Langoliers” Stephen King describes the usually unseen world that exists either side of the present moment.

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