The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

Tea? Is that Tea Leaves, or, Tea Bags?

made in tea pot, or, in the cup?

A few years ago we were visiting our daughter in Edinburgh and met up with a couple of friends who were visiting too.
We went to a small independent cafe, I ordered Coffee and one of our friends ordered Camomile tea.
Our seats were adjacent to the counter and we could overhear the owner guiding the young girl, who must have been new to the job, through the intricacies of making a "proper" Turkish coffee. When the Camomile tea arrived, it was served in a large transparent glass teapot filled with fresh camomile flowerheads steeping inside. There was some sort of metal spiral in the spout to prevent blockage. Our friends, having expected the usual teabag/ seeds in a teabag were astonished. They said it tasted wonderful, we visited again before we headed back from Edinburgh and I tried a pot myself. I'm not a tea drinker, but it tasted sublime.

 

[Dave7]

Is the word 'serendipity' ??
Neither of us eating......just picking at things eg mugshots, can of rice pudding, slice of toast .......that is just one of those in a day.
Yesterday........by coincidence we both felt we could enjoy a ready cooked chicken. The only place to get one is Tesco so we decided to go 1st thing tomorrow.
10 minutes ago the doorbell rings.......its MrsDs sister WITH......a cooked chicken .
We had not mentioned it to her, she just brought it out of kindness. How weird is that ?

 

[Paulus]

Tea? Is that Tea Leaves, or, Tea Bags?

made in tea pot, or, in the cup?

Too many options for some people.

 

[Dirk]

Tea and coffee are very serious subjects you know.

I don't drink coffee........

 

[Dirk]

I have just launched the LRE (lets rejoin europe) party. Would you be interested in membership ??

Feck off!

 

[ColinJ]

Up twice is better than wetting the bed.
Only imo of course.... others might prefer a warm, wet bed

Bubble support dog peed on the floor of the attic bedroom this morning! I was in the room below and caught the smell of disenfectant coming under my door... Bubble pal was cleaning the carpet and the smell was wafting down to me. All good now though.

I had taken the hound for a late walk round the block so we thought he would be ok first thing this morning, but he obviously got a bit confused at his new environment.

We just took the dog for a walk round Todmorden's lovely park.

I see a lady I know said she fell on her arse trying to run in the park and loads of warnings coming in about black ice.

Our park still had a lot of slushy snow and melting ice. It must have been really treacherous a couple of days ago! We normally like to walk up onto the wooded hillside at the back of the park but it wouldn't have been safe today so we stayed down in the valley.

At least we didn't have flooding to put up with this time... (This picture was taken a couple of years ago. The park has been landscaped to serve as an emergency flood pond to help protect the town.)

Support dog is now sleeping off his walk draped across his mistress's lap. She is enthralled by the final of The Apprentice (2018). I refuse to listen to it and have made her use my headphones!

We have similar where I live but also more motorhomes on single track roads. Last summer was a nightmare.

Having experienced an aggressive English 4x4 driver try to knock me and my bike into the sea from the singletrack road on the west side of Mull, I can imagine how bad it must have been!

 

[oldwheels]

A few years ago we were visiting our daughter in Edinburgh and met up with a couple of friends who were visiting too.
We went to a small independent cafe, I ordered Coffee and one of our friends ordered Camomile tea.
Our seats were adjacent to the counter and we could overhear the owner guiding the young girl, who must have been new to the job, through the intricacies of making a "proper" Turkish coffee. When the Camomile tea arrived, it was served in a large transparent glass teapot filled with fresh camomile flowerheads steeping inside. There was some sort of metal spiral in the spout to prevent blockage. Our friends, having expected the usual teabag/ seeds in a teabag were astonished. They said it tasted wonderful, we visited again before we headed back from Edinburgh and I tried a pot myself. I'm not a tea drinker, but it tasted sublime.

So we are not all heathens who live up here then?

 

[Dave7]

Feck off!

That's 2 maybes then........a positive start for LRE.

 

[Mo1959]

A few years ago we were visiting our daughter in Edinburgh and met up with a couple of friends who were visiting too.
We went to a small independent cafe, I ordered Coffee and one of our friends ordered Camomile tea.
Our seats were adjacent to the counter and we could overhear the owner guiding the young girl, who must have been new to the job, through the intricacies of making a "proper" Turkish coffee. When the Camomile tea arrived, it was served in a large transparent glass teapot filled with fresh camomile flowerheads steeping inside. There was some sort of metal spiral in the spout to prevent blockage. Our friends, having expected the usual teabag/ seeds in a teabag were astonished. They said it tasted wonderful, we visited again before we headed back from Edinburgh and I tried a pot myself. I'm not a tea drinker, but it tasted sublime.

Many years ago when at the festival with a friend we went into a little place that did lovely Thai food and had tea like that too. Agree, it was very nice.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Tea? Is that Tea Leaves, or, Tea Bags?

made in tea pot, or, in the cup?

I'd prefer my tea made with tea leaves in a tea pot, my Good Lady won't have that, wants tea bags made in the cup, so thats how we have our tea.

 

[numbnuts]

Just got back from a walk bloody freezing out

 

[pawl]

Lol.....I tried a cafetiere for a while, but have to admit I actually prefer instant.

Your penance is two rounds of toast spread thickly with Marmite.🤪🤪🥰

 

[welsh dragon]

It's warmer here than it has been.

I have been playing with leather

 

[Mo1959]

It's warmer here than it has been.

I have been playing with leather

Poor Brian!

 

[welsh dragon]

Poor Brian!

He isn't here. He went out. I think he was scared for some reason