Jasmine Tea

I am a huge fan of tea. I can do English PG tips with a slosh of milk, naturally, but what I do really love is some Chinese tea. Many of my friends tell me that they don't like green tea - 'it's too Bitter' they claim, having sampled a cup of well stewed tea made with a 'green tea' bag. I find that sort of green tea bitter as well. In reality, green teas can be wonderfully smooth and sweet, the trick is - tea leaves. Even the poorest street sweeper in this land has a flask of tea made with leaves. The country simply would not function without thermos flasks of hot (and tepid) tea.

I have decided to log my tea experiences here, since i very often buy some tea, happily drink it and enjoy it very much, whilst forgetting completely what it is called, or where I bought it.

Jasmine tea is a very good place to start, the jasmine flowers mixed in the tea make it lovely and flowery. My most recent purchase of jasmine tea is all rolled into little balls, it looks really sweet as it unfurles in the hot water. I bought it from Carrefour, where there is a tea seller squeezed in between the dried beans and nuts and the flower stand.

Who really wants to know?

I was talking to A*** the other day, and he was very dissmissive of blogging. I was surprised, as being a creative writing graduate I would have thought he found it relevant and interesting. I think what he really meant was that he felt other peoples lives were not interesting and that anyone writing a blog about themselves perhaps had some inflated sense of self importance. It's a point. It made me think too, as I actually struggle - if I'm honest - with the whole blog thing myself. I mean really beyond my immediate family - who is THAT interested in little old me?

So, part of my new year resolutions is to make this blog less about me and more about other stuff. What the 'other stuff' will be - well that remains to be seen.

graffiti

graffiti, originally uploaded by Miss P's photos.

This graffitti is from a fire escape in Antwerp. The graffiti it's self is pretty boring, but what i really like is the colour of the door.
whenever i'm out i always feel compelled to take random pictures like this, for some assumed future purpose - Ideally inspiration. The only problem I find now is that I actually rarely use the pictures. As part of my new years resolution, I have decided is to do something with the pictures. even if I just stick them here - at least they have been useful for something.