Hello Bob - how nice to hear from you and to welcome you aboard my newsletter. I hope you will enjoy future editions, I have one for Sunday that may amuse you. It keeps my Bain ticking over. Best wishes for the 2025 "sky dots".
Richard, I haven't read much of your writing to date but it is most enjoyable on a winter's day - a winter's tale, in fact. The tea is an extra. You need lots of patience to do this, a bit like hawkwatching (I'm hoping to make you a person that gets his kicks from looking at dots in the sky). It's about to start - next month, weather permitting. Mabel will be with me in spirit! Bob B
Dog Vomit! 😂 we had that the first year we moved to northern Oklahoma! What the heck is this stuff? A google search turned up just that name. Will never forget.
Oh yes how we need handymen to the earth! And handywomen, too. Let us share the ways in which we mend earth's wounds and support her many splendored things. Such a good post from special quotes and detailed lists and close looks at female finches, to how one likes their tea. I like a spot of soy milk in my black and green blend. :-)
A very nice compendium! But what this about tea and biscuits!? One would think you're British! Down here in our benighted Yankland (as opposed to England) it is comme il faut to have coffee.
Some things are bred in the bone and tea to start the day and tea tot end the afternoon are obligatory ... but coffee for breakfast, before lunch and (decaf) in the evening are all good too.
This might amuse you Richard. I copied this from CNN.
"Orwell had robust opinions on totalitarianism, surveillance, censorship and class struggle. He also had things to get off his chest about treacle tarts and cups of tea. “How can you call yourself a true tea-lover,” he cried in “A Nice Cup of Tea”, his 11-point plan for brewing a textbook cuppa, “if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it?”
With “In Defence of English Cooking” Orwell railed against Francophile foodies, instead extolling the virtues of kippers, Oxford marmalade and new potatoes slicked with melted butter and mint. A keen baker, he also jotted down his own recipes for plum cake and Yorkshire puddings. Biscuits, the author insisted, were “better and crisper in England.” "
Hello Bob - how nice to hear from you and to welcome you aboard my newsletter. I hope you will enjoy future editions, I have one for Sunday that may amuse you. It keeps my Bain ticking over. Best wishes for the 2025 "sky dots".
Richard, I haven't read much of your writing to date but it is most enjoyable on a winter's day - a winter's tale, in fact. The tea is an extra. You need lots of patience to do this, a bit like hawkwatching (I'm hoping to make you a person that gets his kicks from looking at dots in the sky). It's about to start - next month, weather permitting. Mabel will be with me in spirit! Bob B
Dog Vomit! 😂 we had that the first year we moved to northern Oklahoma! What the heck is this stuff? A google search turned up just that name. Will never forget.
Oh yes how we need handymen to the earth! And handywomen, too. Let us share the ways in which we mend earth's wounds and support her many splendored things. Such a good post from special quotes and detailed lists and close looks at female finches, to how one likes their tea. I like a spot of soy milk in my black and green blend. :-)
Thank you Sandy
A very nice compendium! But what this about tea and biscuits!? One would think you're British! Down here in our benighted Yankland (as opposed to England) it is comme il faut to have coffee.
Some things are bred in the bone and tea to start the day and tea tot end the afternoon are obligatory ... but coffee for breakfast, before lunch and (decaf) in the evening are all good too.
This might amuse you Richard. I copied this from CNN.
"Orwell had robust opinions on totalitarianism, surveillance, censorship and class struggle. He also had things to get off his chest about treacle tarts and cups of tea. “How can you call yourself a true tea-lover,” he cried in “A Nice Cup of Tea”, his 11-point plan for brewing a textbook cuppa, “if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it?”
With “In Defence of English Cooking” Orwell railed against Francophile foodies, instead extolling the virtues of kippers, Oxford marmalade and new potatoes slicked with melted butter and mint. A keen baker, he also jotted down his own recipes for plum cake and Yorkshire puddings. Biscuits, the author insisted, were “better and crisper in England.” "
He was a man after my own heart - those are all "soul foods".