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Mar. 20th, 2008 06:15 pm
perlmonger: (pete)
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.

tentacles

Dec. 30th, 2006 02:38 pm
perlmonger: (planet)
earth returnWhy do I mentally read Oolong tea as Ooloi tea?

In other news, a few days back, one of the cats threw up on (amongst other things) the pig that went to Goole. [livejournal.com profile] ramtops took it away to wash while I cleaned up the other deposits on the study switch, shelves, various cables, my desk, my iPod,... The thus enmoistened pig lost its squeak, which would have been a tragedy, but having spent a day or two drying on the rack over the hallway radiator, the squeak is back! Huzzah!!

Oh, and we’re in the midst of a much needed couple of weeks off work. Not much to say: relaxation, too much good food, [livejournal.com profile] ramtops made mince pies and sausage rolls (go her!), [livejournal.com profile] kalunina here to visit, boozy evening with Pat and Dave WANOLJ, walks in Brissle and around Long Ashton. That sort of thing.

As noted elsewhere, we’re having our usual open house on Sunday night; mail either of us on our LJ addresses if you feel inclined to join us.

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