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[perlmonger]

Yesterday morning, I placed my bi-monthly-ish tea order¹ with Gillards. Dreadful website; excellent service.

Yesterday evening the bit of Teh Intarweb that houses our servers and provides our DSL (but not our cable) suffered a small but perfectly formed death (still no confirmation, but it seems that a major router or switch decided to wave its legs in the air). The bits got swept up and stuffed back into the series of pipes in the early hours of this morning, and all seems well now.

This morning, my tea arrived. Huzzah! But one packet short and with a handwritten addendum to the delivery slip: “Sorry no Darjeeling First Flush until new season’s arrives”. Arse! I’ve about half a (125g) pack left from last time; it’ll have to stretch.

¹ 125g Jasmine Chung Hao, 375g Fine Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe Assam, 250g Ceylon Orange Pekoe, 250g China Lapsang Souchong, 250g Russian Caravan, 125g Darjeeling First Flush. Oolong and green tea I get elsewhere.

Comments

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

> 375g Fine Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe Assam

As they say... "oooh, I've just come".

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Is lovely stuff.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Dammit. I may just have to place an order with Gillards - they were our mainstay for tea and coffee when we lived in Bath.

[spride.livejournal.com]

No Keemun Imperial? Shame on you.