@ravensrod @TheBreadmonkey @HeatherMJ
Depends who makes it. I know people (I use the term loosely) who call hot water with milk a cup of tea.
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@TheBreadmonkey my news is that I’ve just woken up and read this thread and while it’s fresh for me my contribution is in danger of being old news. The headlines:
We get our bloobs from JA, the argicultural collective-farmer’s market. They taste good, we add them to plain yoghurt. People say they’re good for your eyes. Freeze them as the season comes to an end. Don’t bother to unfreeze them. They’re like tiny ice ball treats.
Our tea pot has a blend of Earl grey, Kenyan and Lapsan Suchon (sp?) leaves and a single Yorkshire Tea bag. Cover pot with 2012 Team GB Olympics cosy. Steep for three minutes. Milk first.
And so to breakfast. Take care.
@TheBreadmonkey I no longer news and I stop following people who news too much. I go and sit in our garden with a cup of tea and spy on the neighbourhood cats instead. Plus, I have taken to reading books again, writing in notebooks and generally avoiding everything. Have made this my only social media now as well.
@TheBreadmonkey
I'm in Aarhus, Denmark, for work and all morning I admired the sunshine in the reading niche of my beautiful appartment. I listened to excellent music while doing so, danced a bit, had great coffee from down the street and had the best time looking forward to the rest of the day. All before work!
Make that the news.
Really loved your post, Ben!
@TheBreadmonkey this thread is glorious. #thenewsatBen
@twoowls73 @TheBreadmonkey
Two new chickens had porridge for the first time today. They loved it
#TheNewsAtBen
@twoowls73 @TheBreadmonkey In further news, I drove my school bus this morning, picking up the children, getting them there safely, returning to the depot, and then drove my car home without mishap. No animals were harmed in the making of this post.
@TheBreadmonkey in my #thenewsatBen today: Dog has best day ever, again! Sun shines and creates lovely sparkles through morning dew. Slippers toasty, and not overly chewed by dog.
@ravensrod @TheBreadmonkey @HeatherMJ
Depends who makes it. I know people (I use the term loosely) who call hot water with milk a cup of tea.
@Fragarach @ravensrod @TheBreadmonkey @HeatherMJ I'm ashamed to admit this, and I hope you're all the kind of people who wouldn't judge someone for the sins of their parents.
My parents make tea with a single bag. My Dad has a normal tea, then they uses the same bag for my Mum's. We call hers homeopathic tea.
@Fragarach @ravensrod @TheBreadmonkey @HeatherMJ
My grandmother used to drink what she called ‘pearl tea’. It was hot water with a little splash of milk and a tiny bit of sugar. Zero tea involved. Lighter even than the top left example.
@Fragarach @ravensrod @TheBreadmonkey @HeatherMJ
I'm in the "If you're going to adulterate tea with milk you deserve whatever cheap teabag you get" camp.
@Fragarach @ravensrod @TheBreadmonkey @HeatherMJ “Tannin Salon” is also “ADHD Tea” as in “forgot I had a cup steeping”
@Fragarach @ravensrod @TheBreadmonkey @HeatherMJ I think I sit somewhere between Werther's Original and He-Man and that's my happy tea place
#tea
@TheBreadmonkey I want the job of writing a column in the back discussing home-made jam recipes.
I must have a go. I remember my mum making a bunch of strawberry jam and I've always thought that it's basically just fruit and pectin and time? But I've never actually tried.
@TheBreadmonkey @TazPoltorak It's a shame it's not online anymore but I heard a thing years ago of Timmy Mallett messing about with a jam making machine that I think was his mum's.
@TheBreadmonkey making jam can be so easy! Not long ago I got 1.5 kg of plums, added 1 kg of sugar, waited for the juice to appear, then heated the pan to simmer for 5 minutes and let it cool down. I repeated this 3 or 4 times (you can leave it on the stove all day to cool), and now I have the most amazing plum jam. Been enjoying it myself and sharing with my neighbours, who also approve.
@TheBreadmonkey I sometimes think about how The News is an abusive partner, and how the industry is so entrenched, and so wealthy that we've normalised opening a firehose of misery into our faces every day.
They know that positive news doesn't sell, so they'll drop the ocasional 'nice' story in for some kind of balance, but 95% of what they deliver is horror beyond our comprehension. And we flock to it because otherwise we'll be uninformed in the eyes of our peers.
But, like, it ain't normal. At least, the sheer volume of it we have these days. Go back 500 years, and The News was what was happening in the handful of villages and towns around yours. Now it's war, and famine, and violence from across the globe, all the time.
So yeah, I tend to actively avoid the news these days. It's not worth the headache.
@DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey ironically I read this toot while the chorus "bad news" by Rilo Kiley was playing on the radio, and my wife has just had some bad news.
Think I'll skip the actual news today.
@DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey Years ago, if I read the news at all it was things like the Quirky section on Ananova. I knew pretty much nothing about politics or anything important but could tell you there was a woman in Africa somewhere who started to just eat ice. I kind of wish I could go back to being oblivious about stuff but I can't.
I revealed today that I call blueberries 'bloobs'. That's the only real news you need.
@TheBreadmonkey I will now subscribe exclusively to The Ben. £1m pounds a month is the cost, I assume?
You know it, baby!
