This cannot go on

[mi_guida]

Every time I go to Monoprix, whatever for, I come back with a different kind of tea[1]. They have very many. I now have much tea. I feel like a dirty philistine, though, as it's all in teabags and not leaf. The trouble is, I don't have the airtight jars to put leaf in - bags, I can keep in ziplock labelled bags and carry it round with me in my rucksack to and from Paris.

When I have my own home I'm living in for more the 3 months at a time, I shall buy such jars and leaf tea.

I want to hold teaparties again. I had such lovely tea parties in the first year, and I even won our term-long Afternoon Tea competition. People here don't like tea very much, though. Next year, I shall hold tea parties. I have a lovely big sitting room and I shall send round pidge invites a week in advance (and then email everyone to remind them, if people are like my previous guests used to be with bits of paper beautiful invitations, and then I shall prepare and lay everything out beautifully and then people can come and descend on my room from 4pm and all will be wonderful.


I could have made this horribly dramatic, but I've had gin and now had tea and I'm gently prodding law, so I couldn't be bothered really. But it's the thought that counts, right?

[1] I also come back with milk, but that's because I always need to buy milk. Tea is not necessary in quite the same way, in that I have already got a shelf full of it.

Comments

[maramaria.livejournal.com]

If you decide to join a support group for tea-buying addiction, call me. I might want to join. I have an entire kitchen cabinet full of various teas, while my fridge has a carton of milk and a dried-out half a slice of bread. Sort of.

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

Will do. It is becoming a bit of a problem, in that I'm literally running out of space on my shelves (next to my desk, where my kettle is!) to keep it all on.

My fridge tends to have milk, bread (most of the time) and cheese. It's sort of balanced, right?!

[maramaria.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, I think I do actually have a piece of cheese lurking at the back of the fridge. It appears I have all the food groups I need: carbs, carbs and teine.

I do need to invest in a new kettle though. One that actually holds more than a cup of water.

[mi-guida.livejournal.com]

Woe! 'Tis an insufficient kettle. Mine here holds 7 cups; however, my kettle of joy that I had to leave in England held 12. What is more, it was not a normal kettle: it was like a miniature catering urn, in that you didn't pour, you pressed down on a pump and the hot water came out of a spout. Also, once it had boiled, it stayed on "Warm" i.e. just a little below boiling until you actually turned it off, so I never had to wait for water to boil... bliss.

It was also joyous because I could lift off the lid and sit a round pyrex dish over the boiling water and hence heat of tins of food sauces over the boiling water. It kept me fed through my first year at University :)