Fannish 50 #29: Tea

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I was trying to come up with more topics for this challenge and it brought me to tea. So, in thinking about tea, and in thinking about these Fannish 50 posts, I was ruminating on criteria.

One, have a ficced about it?

Yes, I wrote an entire 12-fic. 100+k word genderswapped BBC Sherlock Holmes series with a tea theme: Twelve Cups of Tea.

Two, do I have merch/fannish items about it?

Yes, yesterday I finished a really beautiful 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle from Cobble Hill. There are quotes from various people about tea.



Three, have I written poetry about it?

Yes! I did this concrete in April for National Poetry Month.



I've read a lot about tea, growing and preparation. The boys' father's family grows tea in Rwanda. I am pedantic about the word 'tea.' Herbal infusions are not tea. I like chamomile and peppermint infusions but they aren't tea (to me), but I don't get obnoxious about other people using the word for tea imprecisely. I grew up drinking iced tea. I like black tea with sugar. I can drink Earl Grey and other black blends, like English Breakfast. But my favourite tea, the only one I drink actually, is Twinings Ceylon Orange Pekoe Black Tea. I like green tea, too. I've tried all kinds of blends and infusions. One of my prized possessions is a tea catalogue from the French teahouse Mariage Freres. They sent me it after I ordered a bunch of tea. I often look at it even though it's about 10 years old. I asked the boys' father to pick me up some of their teas on the way back from Africa through Paris, but the truth is my $4 box of tea from the grocery store is the best for me. Fancy teas aren't really worth it. I've also made cookies with Earl Grey. And bought Earl Grey chocolates. I've been to Sri Lanka and it was a wonderful experience.

Tea!



Fannish 50 #1: Sherlock Holmes
Fannish 50 #2: Many Fandoms - Fannish Items I Own
Fannish 50 #3: Agatha Christie
Fannish 50 #4: Museums
Fannish 50 #5: Hard Boiled Detectives
Fannish 50 #6: Steampunk
Fannish 50 #7: Facial sheet masks.
Fannish 50 #8: J-hope of BTS
Fannish 50 #9: Collage materials
Fannish 50 #10: Holiday blend coffee
Fannish 50 #11: Inspector Rebus
Fannish 50 #12: Postcards
Fannish 50 #13: Jigsaw Puzzles
Fannish 50 #14: Holmesian Poetry
Fannish 50 #15: Miniature rooms
Fannish 50 #16: Jeeves & Wooster
Fannish 50 #17: The ocean
Fannish 50 #18: Audiobooks
Fannish 50 #19: The Tuesday Murder Club series by Richard Osman
Fannish 50 #20: Chocolate
Fannish 50 #21: BVM
Fannish 50 #22: Bees & honey
Fannish 50 #23: Agust D/SUGA of BTS
Fannish 50 #24: BTS
Fannish 50 #25: Snoopy
Fannish 50:#26: Detective Kosuke Kindaichi by Seishi Yokomizo
Fannish 50 #27: Jimin of BTS
Fannish 50 #28: The language of flowers

Comments

[smallhobbit]

What an excellent subject to be fannish about! And I do like your jigsaw.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! You have the perfect icon. It is a great puzzle but now I am out of new puzzles. :( I realized when I did my last clean that the container I keep my old puzzles in was bumped or something and there's a handful of random pieces in the bottom. So I may have to do my old puzzles and figure out which pieces they go to. I have a lot of autumn puzzles. More than I realized. They are all handsome but it's a lot.