John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

It's the very English fist bump, don't you know

Indeed. 

As seen here. 

Resetting the kettle

I just put the kettle on for the fifth or sixth time today ... I'm not actually sure. When I have a chance to do some extended writing, I make a lot of tea. Yes, I'm primarily a coffee drinker, but making tea is as much about getting up, stretching my legs and thinking something out as it is about getting the next caffeine hit. (It definitely, though, is about that caffeine hit.)

The image above was spotted here. 

 

How did I not think of inventing this first?

Tea rex ... the tea infuser in the shape of a dinosaur. Brilliant. 

Not sure who the market might be, but I'm sure there's an interesting cross-section of a) very young children and b) their grandmothers. 

As seen here. 

 

Can't you just tell when he's under pressure?

At Britannia Teas in St. John's, Kelly Jones has decorated the upper walls with vintage magazine ads about tea. They're certainly from another era, and this one makes me sea: an appeal to wives to calm their husbands by replacing "his hot mealtime drink" with tea.

Coffee and tea on the road

"Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?"
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Almost 150 years after Thackeray's death, you have to wonder how much has changed. (Yes, you can find a decent latte in every major airport, but I can't count the times I've had rotten coffee while on the move.)