Dec 9

Today’s tea is Mint Melody, a green tea with lots of mint added to it. It smells far more of mint than tea, which is probably inevitable with something as aromatic as mint. Luckily, we’re pro-mint, which not everyone is. And it does taste quite strongly of mint, even seconds after steeping. The green tea gives it a nice, rounded quality though. It’s not all mint, like some teas we’ve had in the past, and it’s not a weird cocktail of tea-like herbs someone threw in a sachet with extra sugar. It’s very seasonal. Sort of like. drinking an After Eight, but without the chocolate.

Talking of seasonal, the tree is up, and so’s today’s poem. If you don’t know Brian Bilston, you’re about to become addicted . He’s a genius at light verse.