Quest for Tea

Here is another post on my favourite non alcoholic drink, I hope you don't mind. You may remember a tea company I blogged about back in 2016, called Jollybrew. Jollybrew sadly got bankrupted, or disappeared suddenly: the website ceased to exist and they suddenly got silent on social media. I think it was around 2019. I was really sad: once it was everywhere around here, in local shops and cafés, then suddenly Jollybrew was gone. But two days ago, as I was browsing through my blog, I clicked on the old link to Jollybrew and lo and behold, it lead to a new tea company, called... the Journey Tea Company. So it appears that they resurrected the old Jollybrew into this new entity, also based in Thame (lovely town by the way). And they must have at least some of the same blends. So now I have a new quest: find products from the Journey Tea Company.

Gincident

It's Friday, so it is time for drinking alcohol and for a bit of fun. I thought I would share a humorous chalkboard which I saw in the town of Thame, which we visited a few weeks ago. It was a lovely place, full of charm, and we want to visit it again. And there was this chalkboard on display, which I found funny enough to photograph. Sadly I cannot remember in front of which business it was. I don't drink gin very often, not since my year in Liverpool anyway (read the details here). It is not my poison of choice. Nevertheless, I can easily imagine how a "gincident" can be like. In any case, it is now the word of the day.

Un gros lièvre?

Nous sommes allés à Rumsey aujourd'hui, une chocolaterie/café situé à Thame. Ce fut une belle visite, mais c'est sur un détail précis que je veux bloquer ce soir: ce lapin en chocolat. Enfin, ce lièvre car semble-t-il il s'agit d'un lièvre. Un "gros lièvre" en chocolat à £29.95. Faites le calcul en dollars canadiens. Je ne veux pas être méchant, parce que le personnel était très gentil et ce fut délicieux, je suis persuadé que le lièvre en chocolat l'est autant. Mais dans les proportions saguenéennes et même québécoises, c'est à peine un lapin (ou un lièvre) moyen. À ce prix-là, on aurait quelque chose de deux fois plus gros, et je le crois, d'aussi bon. Je n'ai donc pas acheté le gros lièvre. Cela dit, au moins il n'a pas l'air d'un cousin de Bugs Bunny. C'est un lièvre quasiment réaliste, proprement artisanal.