THE FIRST MONTHLY MOST-EXCITING-VISITOR-TO-THE-WEBSITE-THIS-MONTH AWARD

Wow - what a rather exciting number of exciting-visitors-to-the-

website-this-month there has been!

Through the technological wizardry that is so easily accessible

these days (most technologies now being stocked in your local

grocers) we have been able to matriculise and verificulate that

we've had visits from Athens, Olomouc (it's in the Czech

Republic) and one from an unspecified place in America

(I know! America! That's the one that's in all the films!).

However, despite the heavy competition, we are very proud to

announce the winner of our first monthly (likely not to continue)

most-exciting-visitor-to-the-website-this-month award.

We would like to award our first monthly most-exciting-visitor-to-the-website-this-month award to...

...the mysterious visitor from Wombwell, near Barnsley.

Please get in contact to receive your very* special** prize*** that actually exists!****

Our consolation to everyone else, but please be comforted in the fact that we are chuffing chuffed that ANYONE is looking at our site. We would like to thank you for doing so and implore you to carry on doing so as our web shop is imminent*****

All the best, a very bappy new year to all you bakers and a very happy new year to all the rest.

xxx

*not very

**ordinary

***disappointment

****is entirely fictional

*****fingers crossed

Tea's the season to be jolly.

Pigeon.

It had really feathery feet.

MARKETRY. Not marquetry. Nor a marquetry market. Althought there might have been some marquetry at some of the markets.

It's Chai time we got round to doing this

Seeing as we had rather a few requests for our chai recipe this weekend in Carlisle, we have digitalised it and uploadered it for your own personal usage - find a link for it on our homepage.

It's ALIVE!

We have just completed our first weekend of trade. Carlisle, my nizzle, was the destination. And it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. We got lots of interest in and recommendations for the tea house. We learnt of teas we have never even heard of. And met some wonderful people. Three areas of life that people are guaranteed to be lovely - Tea People, Bee People, and Market People. I would like to add Beardy People also, but not enough scientificy research has gone into that.

Market graft is tough, and has left us all a bit spent. Especially as we have been bagging allll day again in preparation for Wednesday at Newcastle market. But it's a nice tired. One that makes you fall asleep as soon as our head hits the pillow, and not wake up 'til your annoyingly soothing alarm tone starts a gently crescendo-ing 'til you can ignore it not longer and have to start the getting up procedure.

Please, Newcastle-ers, come and see us on Wednesday or Saturday or Sunday. We'll be around Grainger Street. Hot chai, and 50 odd kinds of tea, all served with something resembling a smile, depending on how rainy/bollock freezing it is.

There will be some pics up, but i am not the one blessed with beholding the images.


Lots of love, oh blog readers.

Pre-graft

Logisteacal Nightmare.

Logistic companies make me livid! Apparently they class an 18 tonne Lorry as "Small". I class Chubs as small, not an 18 tonne lorry. Tea couldn't be delivered here so we had to ask some very good friends of ours to guard our tea with spears until the evening. I bicycled to Wylam town centre, to the Toll House and gave my autograph to a toothless, very canny gentlemen. Just incase you do not understand my story I have drawn a diagram. B-dog and the toll house residents ferried our tea to QB HQ. I was very thankful of our friends but still livid with the logistics company.Morals of the story...Logistics companies are annoying, friends are amazing, you get a muddy face when cycling really fast along the black track. Amen.

Ribbed, for your pleasure.

We have just recieved lots of ribbed cups for our market customers to drink lovely tea out of over the next few weeks. Oh the excitement!!!Things are coming together slowly but surely.