As I leave home today to travel to Chicago for the House Wares show there, I am sad that I shall not be in London for the memorial service on Monday next week for my lovely friend Amber McCarroll who so sadly died from cancer at the end of last year. Amber and I did so much together… read more...

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My travels to promote the FINE T machine with Meyer Group took me two weeks ago to the ‘Ambiente’ International Home & Housewares Show in Frankfurt. The skies were leaden, the town white with snow as our coach pulled into the vast car park on my first morning there, and as our group made its way through miles… read more...

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The positive news about the success of new tea shops, tea bars and tea e-businesses around the UK continues with more new companies opening in several locations outside London.

Liverpool’s Brew opened in the summer of 2008 with its slogan “Letting the tea out of the bag!” (echoing Yumchaa’s demands during their street demo of two weeks ago to “liberate… read more...

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Yesterday evening, I ran a tea class for six 8 year olds who make up the Cookery Club at a local school and towards the end of the hour we spent together, one of the boys looked up at me over his beaker of Assam tea and said, “I’ll remember this moment!”. Such a grown-up thing to say… read more...

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