Week Two - Tea Blog-a-thon.
March 23 - March 29
Litera-Tea
Share tea from the perspective of literature. Post a tea quote, a verse or poem, or story. Tell about a favorite tea book. This would be a good time to share how you use tea to encourage others. Do you minister to others by sending them tea themed cards to friends and shut-ins? Or another way you use 'tea' to share joy with others? I know some of you do --- so tell your story!
I have a number of lovely books on afternoon teas, some of which have already been mentioned by others on this thread, so I have selected two of my favourites to show here: "Taking Tea With Alice". This photo was taken from the Amazon.com website, as I have given my copy to a friend!
This is another gorgeous book "Victorian Entertaining" Here is the cover and two of the pages inside:
Finally, to finish off this post, here is a poem a friend wrote to me inside a card:
When the world is all at odds, and the mind is all at sea,
Then cease the useless tedium and brew a cup of tea.
There is magic in its fragrance, there is solace in its taste;
Laden moments vanish somehow into space.
The world becomes a lovely thing! There's beauty as you'll see,
All because you briefly stopped to brew a cup of tea.
posted by Gina E. | 1:46 am
15 Comments:
Hi Gina,
Taking Tea with Alice sounds like a lovely book --- and is one I haven't heard of before. I'm interested in knowing more about it. Does it contain recipes, decor ideas, a story? It has a beautiful cover and looks like a lovely book.
Enjoy a great day! Thanks for your post.
LaTeaDah
Beautiful Gina!
I love the poem your friend wrote...
http://happywonderer.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/tea-week-two-litera-tea/
Oh, what fun! I quoted the same poem in my Litera-Tea post. I also enjoy my copy of Taking Tea with Alice.
For links to many books on tea yoou may find this post interesting:
http://oakrisecottage.blogspot.com/2008/01/links-to-tea-books.html
Ohhhh, I just love the poem that your friend sent to you...I think your friend is right.
Gina, what a great quote your friend wrote! I must look up that book!!
I love the tea poem, too. Glad you're in on the blog-a-thon.
Lovely books! And a sweet poem! Thanks for sharing!
What a beautiful poem, Gina. I've enjoyed my brief peek at a couple of your blogs. I am happy that you embroider such lovely things. :-)
I have the second book and was really excited when its author came to my town. I had him autograph it.
Both books look intriguing! The poem was absolutely lovely!
The Alice tea book is a nice one and I'll have to look for a copy of the book on Victorian Entertaining.
You might consider changing the settings for comments to allow people who don't have Blogger blogs to leave comments. You are blocking everyone else right now with the settings you have chosen.
I see one other person with a WordPress blog has had trouble leaving you a comment and my comment won't link to my blog because of the settings you have selected.
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Thank you to everyone who has left a comment here, and also to those who emailed me when they couldn't comment here due to the way my blogs are set up. I have no intention of changing that set up, as when I first started blogging and allowed all and sundry to comment, I got some weird stuff! So, if you don't have a Blogger account, you can either email me direct, or not comment at all - doesn't bother me either way.
what wonderful ideas for more tea books and the poem says it all!!!
I loved the poem at the end of your post! Thanks for sharing!
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