Well, Christmas is over now and I feel fat, bloated, and just generally stuffed. Excellent! That’s exactly how Christmas should be. For the most part everything went well, although my mom and brother were in the middle of a big fight and that was brought up a couple times.
Ultimately, my tea haul was the following:
- Pack of 20 DAVIDsTEA Filters
- A large, fine mesh tea ball (perfect for my teapot or for oolongs which require lots of room to expand)
- 50g of Jessie’s Tea
- 50g of Guava Cadabra
- 30g of Oh Canada!
- 30g of Mango Lassi
And, for other things I wound up with:
- A shiny ditto, non cheated (on Pokemon Y)
- $100 grocery card
- About 15 little packets of grape jelly and marmalade
- ‘The Game of Things’
- A “spa” basket
- Breakfast out at the Broadway Cafe (it’s a relatively expensive specialty cafe)
In regard to the jelly/marmalade packets, my brother felt bad that he hadn’t been able to afford a proper gift for me so when we went out for breakfast he stole a whole bunch for me – since I love grape jelly on toast and marmalade in my hashbrowns. It was kind of thoughtful, I guess – and just like my brother.
Since I now have 50g of this, I didn’t feel like I needed to hoard the sample I received a while ago from VariaTEA . So, this morning the rest of the sample from her was dumped into the brew basket of my timolino and prepared that way (not sure how much leaf there was – probably at least 1 1/2 tsp) in boiling water, for five minutes. This tea travelled with me for all of our morning shopping.
I got lots of coconut taste, but found the lavender was a little lackluster, although I could tell it was there and would much prefer something a but underwhelming to something over the top and perfumey. It’s also a possibility that the lavender just didn’t carry well in the timolino – I’ve noticed a fair amount of floral flavours are not at their strongest when in it.
Overall, it was a very nice and gentle start to the day (much appreciated – today was the kind of day I had to ease into) although I do think I slightly regretted not having picked something with caffeine in it. Come to think of it, I didn’t get any teas with caffeine…
I may have slipped a sample of Oh Canada into the swap package I sent you last week. So when that arrives you will have just a bit more than 30 g.
Sounds good – I’m always up for more maple/caramel/toffee tea :)