Tis the season to be jolly and to drink more beer and wine. It is Christmas party time! And it only seems like yesterday I threw up after one too many raspberry and lemonades. Too much sharing? Scenario: A) You have been conned into taking the sober driver seat. You and your relations are travelling…
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A plastic-free Christmas? Is it even possible? No, not absolutely plastic-free anyhow. All I can aim for is a severely plastic-reduced Christmas. I will avoid goods wrapped in excessive amounts of plastic, reject plastic kitchenware, toys, storage ideas, plastic wraps, plastic hair accessories, cosmetics … I will need to be on my guard because plastic…
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It is the 2nd week in November: The week in which I learn I am able to purchase interesting teas without going on-line. Our local Asian supermarket, located in the industrial area, has increased it’s tea line. I know this ‘breaking news’ has direct impact on few persons, fewer persons than the whole population of…
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Remember, Remember the fifth of November; The gunpowder, treason and plot ..
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At The Hunger Monger they serve fish … so what has this to do with tea?
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Now and then I see Mr Ogawa as he walks home from his store in the city. Mr Ogawa walks by way of the waterfront, following a line of Norfolk pines planted uniformly between opposing lanes of traffic. The pines’ knobbly roots have heaved up the road so that it undulates like corrugated…
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Taking a cup of tea is as good as hanging a sign over my door: Back in five …
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“The most important thing is fun. Life is too short to be serious. If I had to put our development process into words, it would probably be “Learning by Laughing.” – Peter Guest
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I am deep in the south where the weather and the tea is, well, robust.
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Lan Yuan is the name given to Dunedin‘s Chinese garden. The garden, enclosed behind high walls in Dunedin’s central business district, is typical of the Confuscian scholarly garden made for reflection and escape from the outside world, or in this case, escape from New Zealand. It commemorates the Chinese contribution to the city as many…
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