On Monday we had our first rehearsal for the Trout Quintet, which we’re playing in November. The rehearsal was, for some reason, at 10am, which is not a time when I am usually attempting to do anything more complicated than chewing muesli. Additionally I’d been drinking some wine with the cellist until about 1am the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'tea'
Trouting and Further Exercises
August 14th, 2010 · Lifeblog, Music
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Multi-Talented Tea
June 17th, 2010 · Craft, Jewellery, Lifeblog
The blog post that I was originally planning to write today contained a certain amount of rage, directed at a man who emailed me at around 10.30pm last night and started trying to book me to play a horrendous background-music-for-a-business-lunch gig at 11.30am today, but who dithered about and stopped replying to my emails despite [...]
Tags:Craft·dye·how to dye white things to ivory·lace·morons·rage·refrigerators·sheep·tea
An Interesting Cup of Tea
May 27th, 2010 · Lifeblog
Here is a packet of tea that my sister sent to me from Thailand. The tea is in the form of blobs, which are dried flower heads:
Pour boiling water over the tea:
Steam comes off:
The flower begins to open:
The flower centre pops up like a sea monster:
Fully opened amazing-flowering-cup-of-tea: