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.

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[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 :)