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This apparently is just what I need today.

On the other side, there’s a family of six plus several tenants who all seem to be running some sort of surveillance operation from their house throughout the night. All night long, their house is lit up from multiple screens inside. There are also people coming and going all the time, and their devices are in motion.

Between the two sides, I am woken repeatedly and kept awake for hours at a time. Not by noise but rather by electro-magnetic frequency of all these devices at close range.

If anyone has any suggestions, I am all ears.

It would be awesome if I could block their signals or jam their devices in my proximity, but it is illegal in my country, so it is not possible to purchase items which do this.

Sorry about the rant. It’s been a long long haul and I am not in the best of health to begin with.

Anyway, this tea was good. Milky floral good.

Ok, this one is FAB.

I had approached it with trepidation, given my unfortunate even painful experiences with Boston and Apricot. This order came from H & S’s Canadian distributor. It was my first ever order of H & S teas. Because both of those teas tasted off, somehow synthetic and unpleasant, I was concerned that all my teas in this particular order were tainted, either in my order box or from the storage facility.

I was unfamiliar with all their teas aside from Paris, which someone shared with me through either a swap or the GCTTB.

I refuse to believe that Boston and Apricot are supposed to taste the way these do. And I refuse to give up on H & S. Yet. I am guessing that I will order a sample of both Boston and Apricot one day directly from them to check what is what.

yep, I like this one a lot. Honeyed berry malt on a punchy base.

I can absolutely see this tea as one on permanent rotation.

I don’t know. The scent of the steeping tea and the first couple of sips were promising, but now, false synthetic flavours are coming through on the pleasant true apricot. I don’t know whether this is contamination at the warehouse or during shipment, or if that is just the tea.

On the other hand, I used a DT’s perfect spoon, as I always do, to measure the leaf. Perhaps it was too much leaf. Though the tea does not taste too strong.

Or perhaps I am just spoiled with Anne’s teas. Maybe that’s it. But people seem to like H & S blends, so I don’t get it.

Roasty toasty and Anne’s chai spices. Really good. Much prefer it to the previous houjicha versions such as Gingerbread Houjicha.

Also, I must really store my teas beautifully because this was lovely. I do NOT think this was from 2016. Was there a more recent version?

Beautiful true peach. No ginger that I detected though this has been hanging around for a while. the lack of ginger doesn’t trouble me at all. Delightful cup.

In other news, I wasn’t able to dine in a restaurant today because I had forgotten my vaccine passport. I had gone to pick up some takeout and, on a whim, thought that I would have a bowl of something there as well. It was such a lovely day. Oh well.

And it’s a sipdown!

Not quite sure how this one came my way. I remember tart/sour and I remember a roastier sort of oolong.

Thank you to the person who passed it along for me to try. This blend of flavours is not really working for me.

So, this was actually a mistake because I had thought that I was pulling out a different tea to steep. All good, though.

I’ve been staying away from rooibos and honey bush for a long while now. Just have found myself veering towards black, green, white.

The absence has been good for me, apparently, because I am quite enjoying this one. A bit formal, a bit tart, a bit berry. Haven’t checked the ingredient list or the description, but I suspect lavender, hibiscus, berry, and vanilla to tie it all together.

Also, does anyone know what’s going on with FB?

This has been another BIG favourite of mine from 52teas. Someone wonderful commissioned this tea from Anne based on a Korean sweet brown sugar fried pancake dessert. Whoever it was must have described the dessert perfectly because then Anne captured all the essential qualities in this tea. Really well done!

Apparently, the base of this tea is gone and unavailable forever, so that’s that. But really excellent memories remain. Maybe one day, who knows.

And it’s another sipdown!

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