Jar-bs a guddun.

Sample Jars Are Go!

- for tea samples, not anything else.

Ank-shus.

Big things are afoot. Things are a big foot. Are things a big foot? A short begonia gift. A shit fart goo binge. If a tobogganer's hit, a fat hog riot begins.


Anyhoo, the big things i am referring too are the construction of market stall beginning. Assembled is the gazebo. Assembled are our ikea shelves of dubious stability. Assembled-ish is the market front. We have flyers, stickers in the making, big banner in the making, business cards in the post, sampler jars in the car, a hob, pots and pans, cups and special recipes.



But no tea.

Not for a few days, or so the logistical experts say. Harrumph.

Success!

Lo and behold, a way was discovered! Prototype, fresh off the press. It will be used in a videographic way. But here is the audio just for now...




xxx

Jingle.

The Quilliam Brothers theme song is being worked on. I tried to post version 1.1 on here, but i can only do movies or photos. How frustrating! Mother flipping idiot holes! It promises to create images of radiant beams shooting through the deep night of this region, whilst we become aware of gigantic shadows which, rocking back and forth, close in on us and destroy all within us except the pain of endless longing—a longing in which every pleasure that rose up amid jubilant tones sinks and succumbs. Only through this pain, which, while consuming but not destroying love, hope, and joy, tries to burst our breasts with a full-voiced general cry from all the passions, do we live on and are captivated beholders of the spirits.

Or maybe that was Beethoven's 5th.


Monday is Tea-Day. The arrival of our 130 kg of wrinkly leaves and other bits of dried nature. Then this tea-dious wait will be over.

Tea punning is fun, give it a whirl. Best answers get a snog from Ronnie Corbett*.




Sleep well, you bloggy fellows.

*not true.

Christmas Markets

Although this has been mentioned, it was only in passing. So, here is a Public Service Announcement:

WE WILL BE ATTENDING 3 SEPARATE CHRIMBOBULAR MARKETISATIONS.

THEY ARE:

CARLISLE - 5TH AND 6TH OF DECEMBER

NEWCASTLE - 9TH, 12TH AND 13TH OF DECEMBER

ALNWICK - 19TH DECEMBER

PLEASE COME AND FIND US TO PURCHASE LOOSE-LEAF TEA (62 FLAVA-FLAVS OF BLACK TEA, GREEN TEA, FLAVOURED BLACK TEA, FLAVOURED GREEN TEA, FRUIT MIXES AND HERBAL BLENDS)

AND

CUPS OF TEA, INCLUDING SOME LOVELY HOME-MADE CHAI (WHICH HAS ALL GINGER AND CINNANINININININAMON IN IT).

End of Public Service Announcement.

(Disclaimer : this Public Service Announcement was sponsored by CAPITAL LETTERS)

life choices.

Daddy

Or

Chips?

We are not...

...these guys: http://www.quilliambrosexcavating.com/

But we do loik big traht'ers.

reading this...

1767 'labourers are losing their time to come and go to the tea table; nay farmers servants are even demanding tea for breakfast with the maids. As much superfluous money is wasted on tea as would maintain 4 million more subjects on bread.'

-bready subject maintainance seems slightly harsh. Surely the wealthy land owners could spare a cup of pg tips and a 5 minute break in the hard labour? mind you, avid blog readerators, builders these days do somewhat take advantage of the tea break. Next time, i'm just going to give the plasterer a crusty bit of hovis, see if that doesnt get him grafting quicker.

In other news, the tea was put in the post today, so we are excitably awaiting its arrival.

Brews 4eva IDEMT xxx

Eine kleine nacht pic

-Yes, yes, many teas indeed. After umm-ing and ah-ing, and many other noises of the most deepest of thinks, we came to a decision (or Tea-cision, if you will. I won't). We had limited ourselves to an initial choice of 50 teas from every corner of mother earth, but we only went and discovered 12 MORE CORNERS, and simply had to choose more teas. So 62 was the final count. This is, of course, set to grow further as the Tea House grows. We will be listening to everybody's brew suggesterations in the future, so let us know of any wonderful concoctions you have sampled, and we will endeavor to locate something similar.

-Bremen was super, quiet as a mouthless mouse, but super. Ever walked down a busy street and have keine sprechen flying between people? Bizarre.

Big sausages, check.

Great facial hair, check.

Big foamy beers, check.

Efficient tram system, check.

Bremen - the Tea capital of Europe.

Last weekles we went to Bremen in Germany so as to test lots of teas for to sell in the coming wotsits, particularly at Christmas markets in Carlisle (5th and 6th December), Newcastle (9th, 12th and 13th December) and Alnwick (19th December).

Whilst there:

- We slurped about 250 types of tea.

- We got caffeined to the nines.

- We nearly vommed.

- We ate a few sausages.

Not necessarily all at once, but not necessarily exclusively.

Above you should see some photoids that start, but hardly come close, to demonstrating the amount of teas there were to taste.

Twittlesticks

We have increased our techno-status 2 fold by signing up to the world of Tweetoids - twit us on http://twitter.com/quilliambros for a more condensed version of what you'll find on here.

Welcome/Wilkommen/歡迎/добро пожаловать/recepción/환영/υποδοχή...

...to this here Electronical Blog-Displaying Folio. Or "EBDeF" as all the trendy people with so much on in their lives that they have to shorten words are calling it. Thyre sum crzy cts mn. Wrd.

We're a business that has been around now for at least a week. We import loose-leaf tea and we're now embarking on a project that will provide a place for people to drink said loose-leaf tea. It will be an ultra-cosy, mega-friendly, super-groovy, groovily-super teahouse, but WAIT! As well as having a variety of cosy places for tea-drinkers to drink tea in, it will also have a gallery for artists to art in, a little stage for musicians to music on (and listeners to listen off) and a little cinemarey room for film buffs to buff films in. We hope it will become a place that people will feel comfortable in and make it their regular haunt (ghosts need not apply - unless you're the ghost of Karl Marx as we would really like to compliment you on your beard. And your social theorising. But mainly your beard).

Anyway, that's the idea and this EBDeF will serialise the progress of the Teahouse until its up and running - then it will become a device for showing the world our groovy friends what we made and what they did in our teahouse. Perhaps not what they did in the toilets.

In the words of How 2, thats How for Now. Over and out,

All at Quilliam Brothers (all 3 of them).

PS Incase you were wondering, Quilliam Brothers is made up of 3 brothers. Their surname is Quilliam.

PPS It rhymes with 'William'.