Sipdown!
October Sipdown Challenge Prompt – World Smile Day
Should I really count this as a sipdown? Yes, I should! I was out of this tea for three hours before the post delivered my new one plus an Earl Grey as a little friend for it. I received this tea for Christmas last year as well as their Chinese Emperor’s Breakfast and I fully intended to wait until Christmas to restock, but they ran that free shipping weekend and I caved.
Boy, did this ever put a smile on my face today. I had to go to the hospital early for my pre-ops but was back home by 7:40 am, just in time to make a lovely breakfast and a huge pot of this. Two teaspoons, three steeps, and yes, it was quite a lot of tea. I smiled all the way through every cup.
This is a truly great breakfast tea to me. It is strong enough and yet does not require milk or sugar. I keep promising myself that I will try it with milk to bring out the chocolate notes as they suggest but I love it SO MUCH just as it is that I can’t bring myself to change anything. Maybe now that I have refilled my tin I will give it a try.
Does anyone know where we can find the exclusive story by Alexander McCall Smith that was put in the tins as a promotion many years ago?
