Comments on: Teabags and Sugar http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/ nice of you to drop by. tea? Tue, 13 May 2008 04:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6-bleeding By: Sean Kavanagh-Dorsett http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-55346 Sean Kavanagh-Dorsett Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:10:57 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-55346 These are things I meditate on daily as owner of Tea & Sympathy, a place for tea time in the West Village of Manhattan. This month, I'm trying to get the mayor to recognize the west village, home to the largest concentration of Brits in the Big Apple, as "Little Britain." Such a moniker will be in the spirit of neighbourhoods like Little Italy and Chinatown and become a welcoming place for Londoners and Britons alike. Sign the petition at http://www.campaignforlittlebritain.com! (deadline is May 1!) Check us out on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x96FrakUPfs These are things I meditate on daily as owner of Tea & Sympathy, a place for tea time in the West Village of Manhattan.

This month, I’m trying to get the mayor to recognize the west village, home to the largest concentration of Brits in the Big Apple, as “Little Britain.”

Such a moniker will be in the spirit of neighbourhoods like Little Italy and Chinatown and become a welcoming place for Londoners and Britons alike.

Sign the petition at
http://www.campaignforlittlebritain.com!
(deadline is May 1!)

Check us out on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x96FrakUPfs

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47717 Rich Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:47:20 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47717 Hi Ozzy, it's home grown-ish. It's based on a gravatar plugin but it adds an override so I can add avatars for people I know - this has proved handy with the long <a href="http://site.gravatar.com" rel="nofollow">gravatar</a> downtime. Hi Ozzy, it’s home grown-ish. It’s based on a gravatar plugin but it adds an override so I can add avatars for people I know - this has proved handy with the long gravatar downtime.

]]> By: ozzy http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47663 ozzy Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:30:20 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47663 Hey what's that avatar plugin you're using? Are those gravatars? Hey what’s that avatar plugin you’re using? Are those gravatars?

]]> By: Tom S http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47321 Tom S Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:40:30 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47321 Christ you can tell you're a student! Christ you can tell you’re a student!

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47148 Rich Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:22:19 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47148 /me blushes. It's the new haircut, right? /me blushes. It’s the new haircut, right?

]]> By: Stefan Kirchner http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47133 Stefan Kirchner Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:11:43 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-47133 Hi Rich, As one of the UK’s most influential bloggers, we’d like to invite you to enter the <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro/article.html?in_article_id=36648" rel="nofollow">Ask.com Best of Brit Blog Awards</a>. If so, then more information can be found at Ask.com. All the best, Stefan Kirchner, Ask.com. Hi Rich,
As one of the UK’s most influential bloggers, we’d like to invite you to enter the Ask.com Best of Brit Blog Awards.
If so, then more information can be found at Ask.com.
All the best,
Stefan Kirchner, Ask.com.

]]> By: Lesley http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-44440 Lesley Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:07:52 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-44440 Our teabags go on the compost heap.... can you compost sugary bags? I think you might become a target for ants. Our teabags go on the compost heap…. can you compost sugary bags? I think you might become a target for ants.

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-44318 Rich Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:10:32 +0000 http://boakes.org/teabags-and-sugar/#comment-44318 There's another experiment to be done too, the 'reboiled water' issue has always bugged me. I've heard several people say that reboiled water is no good for making tea "because its got less oxygen" which has always seemed bonkers to me, what with water being made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one oxygen atom per molecule there would appear to be an abundance of the stuff ripe for release at boiling point. It seems obvious, but has anyone ever actually tested it in terms of flavour (which I'm supposing could be measured in terms of some measure of tea parts per million)? There’s another experiment to be done too, the ‘reboiled water’ issue has always bugged me.

I’ve heard several people say that reboiled water is no good for making tea “because its got less oxygen” which has always seemed bonkers to me, what with water being made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one oxygen atom per molecule there would appear to be an abundance of the stuff ripe for release at boiling point.

It seems obvious, but has anyone ever actually tested it in terms of flavour (which I’m supposing could be measured in terms of some measure of tea parts per million)?

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