On this, my alleged writing day, I have important business. Yesterday morning, the teapot broke. Fortunately I have some emergency teabags to hold me through until I have bought a new one, but this is a big issue. Particularly after … Continue reading →
The Day Job Project from Heck has been woefully behind on every aspect of my life. I’m having a hard time catching up. So, today you get a post from 2010 on tea. Enjoy. As most of you probably know, … Continue reading →
As most of you probably know, the English drink tea. Tea was introduced in England after 1650. I’m sure that most of us have read a historical in which the phrase “a dish” of tea is used rather than the … Continue reading →
Those two words, plus Let’s Pretend… are part of the essential writer’s toolbox (or those of the average six-year-old, meaning that writers haven’t quite grown up yet). So I like to play a game where I try to translate everyday … Continue reading →
Because I am jet-lagged, this post will be weird. I apologize in advance. I’m having my morning tea right now. This will hopefully help my jet-lag. (I just returned from England, which means an eight-hour time difference). Plus, the night … Continue reading →
On Saturday, I partook of your charming American custom of “Mother’s Day” by attending tea at a lovely little tea shop with my hostess, her mother, and various other ladies. (My own dear, departed mother would have loved this holiday, … Continue reading →
William Cobbett, round about 1821, wrote: The drink, which has come to supply the place of beer has, in general, been tea. It is notorious, that tea has no useful strength in it; that it contains nothing nutricious; that it, … Continue reading →
Now stir the fires, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, … Continue reading →
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Lord of Misrule by Gail Eastwood
The Wallflower's Mistletoe Wedding by Amanda McCabe
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