Today’s tea is a rich golden colour. Thyolo White Peony:
To create this tea, each pluck is three leaves and a bud. Gathered together, the leaves are dried in partial sun and shade, before being finished in the tea factory’s air drier.
3 TBS is crazy. I use 1 teaspoon.
A pair of Eastern Rosellas has been taunting me for weeks now. Today I finally “caught” them. 🐦
Not actually a floor mop. Sasha on the floor in the early morning. I’ve finally been able to get her in for a groom next week. 🐶
Early in the piece I didn’t think my first loaf of bread made with our new Kitchenaid mixer would work out very well, but it looks fine fresh out of the oven. Basic Bread Recipe. I haven’t tasted it yet…
This was a simple read — an easily solved murder mystery, a bit of romance. Always on Duty: Companion Novella (A Klondike Mystery) by D. B. McNicol. 📚
These clouds seem rather opinionated. ☁︎
I’m not a Royal watcher, but Princess Anne seems like the pick of the bunch. Princess Royal to visit New Zealand:
Princess Anne is travelling to Aotearoa at the request of the NZ Army’s Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals, of which she is Colonel in Chief, to attend its 100th Anniversary celebrations
Today’s tea: Yunnan Yellow —
It has a heady and exotic fruity and floral aroma, a thick mouthfeel with intense marmalade and papaya notes and hints of eucalyptus and walnut.
Hmmm, tastes like tea to me. 😆
Sasha on another barky morning. Surely she can’t know it’s the anniversary of her brother Oshi going away and never coming home again… 🐶
Apparently, according to Sasha 🐶, 01 February is The Day of Barking. Not sure if this is a National or even International event. In any case, I’m hoping it’s one of those morning-only things… 🥺
Today’s tea: Kyobancha
This soothing tea is perfect for a cold day or as a night-time tea. March 2021 harvest.
I’ve tried a couple of times to give blood, but they won’t let me. That could change — Ban on blood donation … likely to be lifted:
A ban on people giving blood because of mad cow disease is likely to be lifted later this year … The ban … applied to anyone who had lived for six months or longer in the United Kingdom … between 1980 and 1996.
Ooooh, I never knew this Backing Up MarsEdit:
MarsEdit stores all its data in a folder in your home folder. To open the MarsEdit data folder, hold the option key on your keyboard while selecting the Help menu at the top of the screen, then select “Open MarsEdit Data Folder.”
The unusual mystery writer conceit in Secret Sleuth Box Set (Books 1–2) [dead link] by Patricia McLinn took a bit of getting used to, but the books were a good read. 📚
Enjoyed the hunt in Graves On The Fens (DI Nikki Galena Series Book 14) by Joy Ellis. 📚
It arrives in the morning. An old-fashioned airmail envelope addressed to Detective Nikki Galena. Inside, on a single sheet of blue airmail paper, are three words: You failed me.
Today’s tea: Himalayan Evergreen Autumn, Nepal:
Grown at 1850m, these leaves were hand-plucked on the sunny morning of 30 October 2021, then quickly withered, pan-fired, rolled and oven-dried. The result is a delicate tea with a citrusy, buttery fragrance
A neighbour called and said she was watching the Matuku-hūrepo | Australasian bittern nearby so I rushed down to join her. My first time seeing this extremely rare and cryptic bird. 🐦
Status: Native, Nationally Critical
Bitterns are extremely cryptic and rarely seen.
I’m copying 325 blog posts from Publii to Micro.Blog via MarsEdit. AppleScript helps a lot. I was stuck on choosing the right blog. @danielpunkass sorted it:
tell application "MarsEdit" make new document set current blog of document 1 to blog "Waikawa News" end tell
On 20 September 2013 there was an enormous thunderclap right above our house in Wellington. Next day when I was walking the dogs I noticed a tree only some 50 metres from our house (and above the level of our house) had been hit by lightning.
There is thunder rumbling round. So glad Sasha can no longer hear it (and react to it with terror).