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What-cha English Breakfast

This tea arrived on my tea table in the form of a 7 gram sample that was kindly included in a recent purchase I made over at What-cha.

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2009 Meng Song Bamboo Sheng

I’d had my beady, thirsty little eye on this tea for a while, and while I was ordering an aged Oolong over at House of Tea I thought that this’un might as well come along for the ride.

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2001 Aged Oolong

If you read enough blogs and hang out in the right on-line forums then you can’t help noticing certain trends in the tea world.

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Summer 2018 – Introduction

It’s summer again, and we’re off on our hols!

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Himalayan Secret

Note – this post was started at stupid o’clock one midsummer’s morn when my creative juices and decision making processes alike were under the twin influences of sleep deprivation (cause:cat) and an awful lot of sheng Pu-erh, so if it … Continue reading

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Jeju Do Sejak

Regular readers might remember that some time ago I popped over the Öresund strait and paid a day visit to Copenhagen in search of interesting leaves and cool tea toys.

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2015 Nepal Himalayan Flowery

My stash is quite modest compared to some folks – I guess that on average I have about 20-something teas in at any given time – and yet sometimes teas still get bought, sampled, and then quietly forgotten about.

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2011 Man Nong Shou

This was yet another purchase from perennial favourites House of Tea.

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Beast Blend 444

Part of my stash lives in a chest of drawers in our kitchen.

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Bamboo Shoots Guildford

During our Easter 2018 trip to England we made a day trip to Guildford.

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