October Sipdown Challenge Prompt – World Smile Day
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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?
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I did a bit of googling, and it looks like he wrote a series of stories to be put in the Lost Malawi tea cannisters. I suspect they were incorporated into one of his many short story collections, though I haven’t been able to find more information. You could contact the owner of Rare Tea Company, and Alexander McCall Smith also has a contact page on his website. I’d love to solve this mystery! :)
I googled, but didn’t find anything definite about which stories were in the tins. I will contact Rare Tea Co. and ask, as they were the ones who sent me the link to the news article about it back when I read Smith’s book that mentioned their shop. They are very responsive and quick, so we should have an answer soon!
Yay! I also asked the tea geeks on TeaForum if they knew anything about these stories. Hopefully one of these sources will come through!
Good luck and speedy recovery from your operation!
Thank you, Michelle!
I did a bit of googling, and it looks like he wrote a series of stories to be put in the Lost Malawi tea cannisters. I suspect they were incorporated into one of his many short story collections, though I haven’t been able to find more information. You could contact the owner of Rare Tea Company, and Alexander McCall Smith also has a contact page on his website. I’d love to solve this mystery! :)
I googled, but didn’t find anything definite about which stories were in the tins. I will contact Rare Tea Co. and ask, as they were the ones who sent me the link to the news article about it back when I read Smith’s book that mentioned their shop. They are very responsive and quick, so we should have an answer soon!
Yay! I also asked the tea geeks on TeaForum if they knew anything about these stories. Hopefully one of these sources will come through!
Good luck and speedy recovery from your operation!
Thank you, Michelle!