To me, America is like a great white shark. It’s sleek, it’s big, it’s an inevitable part of life, it’s at or near the top of the food chain, and, particularly in certain parts of LA, there’s an awful lot of very […]

I remember a scene from my childhood as though it were yesterday. I must have been 8 years old, and it was time to catch the train back to school for the term. With my straw boater at a rakish angle and my maroon […]

Last week, there was a day where I didn’t have a good day. Lady Devotea did not have a good day either.

In fact, it was early on in a succession of challenging days.

Now I don’t want you to think it was […]

The other day I got asked a simple question about tea, requiring a yes/no answer. And it was this: “I’m anaemic, should I switch to herbal tea?”

This was on Quora, where I’ve previously had a great deal of […]

In Star Wars, (the first one made that was really the fourth one, as opposed to the first one, which they made fourth) there’s bit when Darth Vader casually drops in the saucy fact that he is, in fact, Luke […]

At my “peak”, for want of a better word, I posted over 100 blog posts in one year. But lately that has tapered off a little.

I say ‘a little’, but this is my fourth post for 2019.

I know it’s been hard for […]

A visit to Pheonix Tea was on the cards again, but this time, not the wonderful Phoenix Tea of Burien, Washington State, USA, but Phoenix Tea of Hong Kong.

Google Maps suggested walking in a strange loop out of […]

As someone who doesn’t take milk in my tea normally, I’m nevertheless drawn to the various forms of milk tea as a moth is to flame.

So, just to recap the last 300 blog posts, I’ve drunk thousands of cups of tea […]

If you are a regular reader, or a casual reader, or you’ve read .001% of my stuff, you’ll know that I’m a tad anti-teab*g.

Well, perhaps more than a tad, given that I have previously advocated setting fire to […]

Taste is a very individual thing, and it amazes me that people try to regulate it, or define it, or pretend it doesn’t matter.

Here’s an example: Vegemite.
If you are Australian. you’ll know that Vegemite is […]