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18 October 2011
Blending Breakfast Teas (Part 3)
So how to get us started? Well, I decided to start at the end first and to work backwards, so I tried to work out what were the types or styles of tea that we wanted to come out with as products. Basically, we were looking for light, medium and stron...
Read more10 October 2011
Blending Breakfast Teas (2)
These developments in tea blending style are best described through the developments in the composition of the standard household tea blend over the years. These show how the blends became more complicated, even as they became less complex in flavou...
Read more06 October 2011
Blending Breakfast Teas (1)
I have been doing some research while trying to create a range of Breakfast Tea blends to complement our very popular English Breakfast Tea. This has partly been a matter of curiosity as I like, in a slightly anoraky way, reading old books on tea, s...
Read more03 October 2011
Food Waste, Food Poverty And Fareshare
Food waste is criminal, so it is brilliant when you hear or read of charities like FareShare that collect and distribute surplus food from retailers that would otherwise be thrown away. FareShare works closely with companies like M&S, Nestlé and...
Read more02 October 2011
The Sound of Northumberland
I have been to listen and watch Kathryn Tickell twice over the last month, once in Ripon and then at the Sage with her new show, Northumbrian Voices with her band and her dad - actually her dad, Mike Tickell, also came to the show in the Holy Trinity...
Read more07 September 2011
Kaffee Und Kuchen In Munich
The other thing I always remember about trips to Bavaria and especially Munich was the cakes, or Kaffee und Küchen, either with my Granny or Aunts or in the posh cafés in the centre of town. So we indulged with a visit to Kreutzkamm, but did not get...
Read more03 September 2011
Four Days In Munich - Some Traditional Restaurants (19 - 22 August 2011)
I went to Munich with our eldest, Jay, the other weekend ostensibly to show him Germany and visit my aunts and uncle. However, we managed to sneak in a match at the Alliance Arena between FC Bayern Műnchen and Hamburger SV, where Arjen Robben, Basti...
Read more25 August 2011
Is There Any Need For Sustainability?
I have recently read Tim Jackson's "Prosperity Without Growth - Economics for a Finite Planet". It proposes that we refocus how we manage our economies to take into account the limits on the earth, but is rather vague exactly how we should do this -...
Read more24 August 2011
Another Poem By Yeats - The Second Coming
Another poem by Yeats, The Second Coming, was written in 1919 after the First World War and is a slightly depressing poem. While about war - whether the First World War or the earlier Prussian War - it hints at the destructive power of humanity whet...
Read more11 August 2011
St Wilfrid's Procession In Ripon (30 July 2011)
Today was the annual St Wilfrid Procession through Ripon. This celebrates our city's patron saint, St Wilfrid, who was one of the great northern saints and important people of early Northumbria. He is very unlike the ascetic Irish (Celtic) saints t...
Read more09 August 2011
Aldborough Agricultural Show (24 July 2011)
After a couple of weeks away, we return home to glorious weather; blue skies and really hot. Normally, we are still away this weekend, so we generally miss the local show - the Aldborough and Boroughbridge Agricultural Show - which is gentle like th...
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