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But first: a tea review.

sugarpunfairy wanted a post, and I am on lunch, so tea seems appropriate.

stitchinmyside, didn't you want to have a tea tasting party? I think that is an excellent idea.

I know one of the big resorts does a "tea matching" to their tasting menu if you don't want the wines. How West Coast is that?

Here's a new thing for me: Lady Grey tea. I am a fan, though not exclusively, of Earl Grey. Never really saw the point of Lady Grey. It seemed too much like an excessively cute spin-off tea. Then I bought some randomly at the Gathering Place. It's just a hole-in-the-wall store/restaurant behind work, but something about it makes me want to take home the odd assortment of things they heap on their shelves. Their sale bin contains things like like black light makeup. Their baby congratulations cards play strangely ominous classical music.

Really liking the Lady Grey. It claims to be "lightly scented with bergamot and other citrus flavours." We will bypass the odd matching of "scented" and "flavours". I will not demand that you explain to me what makes bergamot "citrus". I'm sure it's all accounted for somewhere. The point is, I can drink it without milk, unlike the Earl, whose more forceful brew tends to make me retch if drunk on an empty stomach.

Of course really no one should be drunk on an empty stomach.

As you were.

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