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Remember that job I interviewed for last week? Got it! Aww yeahhhhh. Alternate weekends at the IWM, here I come!

(Here’s hoping something with an actually sustainable number of hours actually pops up soon though, I can’t live on alternate weekends. I’m scarily poor.)

Tea, though. Tea is good. And while I’m not big on most white teas on their own, I do enjoy a good white tea with the right kind of stuff. Yay, white tea and stuff! First of all, they’re really not kidding when they say the TARDIS pouch is dimensionally transcendental – there’s definitely an extra ounce in there. Well played, Adagio! Secondly, once I’d opened the pouch, the first thing that hit me was a wave of clean and bright peppermint. On closer inspection, I found the fragrance to be underscored by the presence of subtle, soft blueberry. The taste is light and clean: there’s a sort of floral delicacy that sits behind the mint, and a quiet blueberry sweetness that follows. Because it’s so delicate, this is the kind of blend that even an unstoppable sweet tooth like me can enjoy with or without sugar, though I do find that a little sweetening teases out the blueberry flavour just a little bit more. It’s beautiful warm, but also an excellent candidate for drinking on ice. Clean and comforting, and just makes me feel all happy inside, like the familiar hum of the TARDIS console room itself, the hatstand by the door, the incomprehensible collection of buttons and lights and levers, and that bit that goes ‘vworp vworp’ and moves up and down to tell you you’re currently travelling through time and/or space. Tastes like home.

I am a big dork.

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carol who

Sami you do such a great job describing the tea that I feel as if I am there with you drinking the tea. I did finally get some of the DW teas from the Adagio sale, so I won’t harass you anymore about your huge varieties of DW. I haven’t tried any of them yet. I’m waiting for the perfect time when I can really sit and enjoy them. I don’t want to just throw them in a tumbler and go. :D Oh BTW, congratulations on the job!

K S

Congrats – hoping it turns into more hours and less poor!

TeaLady441

I love that the tardis teas have bonus tea!
Also congrats on the job! Fingers crossed that something else turns up, but maybe it’ll lead to something steadier?

Sami Kelsh

Thanks guys! :3

(Doctor Who tea is the best kind of tea)

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carol who

Sami you do such a great job describing the tea that I feel as if I am there with you drinking the tea. I did finally get some of the DW teas from the Adagio sale, so I won’t harass you anymore about your huge varieties of DW. I haven’t tried any of them yet. I’m waiting for the perfect time when I can really sit and enjoy them. I don’t want to just throw them in a tumbler and go. :D Oh BTW, congratulations on the job!

K S

Congrats – hoping it turns into more hours and less poor!

TeaLady441

I love that the tardis teas have bonus tea!
Also congrats on the job! Fingers crossed that something else turns up, but maybe it’ll lead to something steadier?

Sami Kelsh

Thanks guys! :3

(Doctor Who tea is the best kind of tea)

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My Time Lord name is the Brewmaster. Currently working on People Of Who, an exhibition of portraits of the people who made Doctor Who happen. Professional dilettante. Literary enthusiast, frustrated sometime writer. Knitter of things.

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