(written by By Sara Ledwith for Reuters.co.uk)
“Well I think we should all sit down and have a nice cup of tea, and some biscuits, nice ones mind you. Oh and some cake would be nice as well. Lovely.”
The British Library may have raised academic eyebrows when it decided that a Web site with this mission statement should be archived among those that may be of social significance, stamping it a modern classic of British popular culture.
By ERIN Middlewood Columbian staff writer
You probably already know coffee: It’s that dark liquid found in a travel mug or a paper cup, procured from a drive-through or maybe your preprogrammed home coffee maker, slurped on the road or at least on the go.
Now meet tea: Fragrant amber steaming in a china cup, poured from a teapot after steeping long enough for you to catch your breath, sipped slowly between tidbits of conversation with a friend.
Hi Guys
For all you enthusiastic teapot collectors out there, Paul is planning to have a Christmas Signing Day on the 11th November.
Paul is going to have a good old clear out of his Design Studio and the Vault stock so there will be some pretty impressive teapots up for grabs in the auction. I will give you pictures and information on the teapots available in due course.
We plan to have the usual raffle and signing by Paul and his team for you all on the day.
Paul is also planning to produce two special teapots just for the day.
Malaysia plans to push the boundaries of space travel, by making a cup of tea.
Malaysia will send its first astronaut into the heavens aboard a Russian rocket next year and attempt for the first time to make the nation’s favorite hot drink, teh tarik, in space.
“The physics experiment is to see what happens to teh tarik in space,” Haniff Omar, head of Malaysia’s astronaut selection program, told reporters in all seriousness on Monday after two Malaysian men were short-listed to make the trip.
A small teapot stolen from a former Queenstown Mall restaurant makes a surprise comeback next week.
Local artist John R McCormack, who swiped the green teapot, has produced a 15-painting series based on what it “heard” while sitting on a table during the Westy’s Restaurant era – 1980-1994 – and beyond.
He’s called the exhibition “Before We Were Millionaires”.
It will open at Skybar on September 8 and prices range from $600 to $4000.
“Anybody who dined in that era, who had property here, will now be a millionaire, whether we like it or not,” McCormack says.
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