Jasmine tea (Chinese: 茉莉花茶; pinyin: mòlìhuÄ chá) is tea scented with aroma from jasmine blossoms to make a scented tea. Typically, jasmine tea has green tea as the tea base; however, white tea and black tea are also used. The resulting flavour of jasmine tea is subtly sweet and highly fragrant. It is the most famous scented tea in China...
‘You be very careful how you fool about with that stuff. Did I ever tell you about poor Buffy Struggles back in ‘ninety-three? Some misguided person lured poor old Buffy into one of those temperance lectures illustrated with coloured slides, and he called on me next day ashen, poor old chap – ashen. “Gaily,†he said. “What would you say the procedure was when a fellow wants to buy tea? How would a fellow set about it?†“Tea?†I said. “What do you want tea for?†“To drink,†said Buffy. “Pull yourself together, dear boy,†I said. “You’re talking wildly. You can’t drink tea. Have a brandy-and-soda.†“No more alcohol for me,†said Buffy. “Look what it does to the common earthworm.†“But you’re not a common earthworm,†I said, putting my finger on the flaw in his argument right away. “I dashed soon shall be if I go on drinking alcohol,†said Buffy. Well, I begged him with tears in my eyes not to do anything rash, but I couldn’t move him. He ordered in ten pounds of the muck and was dead inside the year.’
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion. The opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that stea...
Update: Yay I finished it! I'm pretty excited about this piece, as I have wanted to paint Totoro for quite some time now. I had SO much fun painting this one, making it as magical and cute as I pos...
Tea time between friends.
Media: Personal tea pot and textures For the years of comfort, thank you tea! Prints are still available!Â