Purposeful Ramblings Through My Mind

There's a little direct sales company, brand-new, offering home parties in Hamilton (and only Hamilton.) It's called Steeped, and the Literacy teacher hosted one at school today.

I'm hosting one in July. Folks, this is really good tea. Their pots and infusers are good, too. So if you're local and like tea, plan for July 13th, at three o'clock, for Sunday Tea at my house.

I ordered Earl Grey à la crème, Irish breakfast, and After Eight. (Chocolate mint flavoured tea - yum!) I can't wait until it comes.

It's probably not going to make Twinings' perfect cup of tea, but it has all the features I was looking for, including a pretty design and a spout that doesn't drip.

I may still order that dragon one, though. It was cool.

My teapot is ill. Very, very ill. I believe it is unlikely to survive much longer. Specifically, it has a hairline crack, darkened by tea that has seeped through it for months, all around the base. This crack is visible from the other side, and it's tea-coloured there, too. The small puddles set off my warning bells, and they're tolling a death knell.

I'm not particularly attached to this teapot. My mother gave it to me, because it always dripped for her, and I needed one. It drips for me, too. Teapots, unlike cats, do not change their drip habits to reflect changes in the household. I put up with it. I poured my tea over the sink. I mopped up drips.

Why, you ask, would you need a new teapot at this time of year? The answer: iced tea. Powdered iced tea doesn't appeal to me. It has a slightly gritty texture which drives me crazy. I need a teapot that holds about one litre of tea when full to the brim, and I'd like to get one that won't drip.

I'm going to start my search at Homesense, because I also want something I'll enjoy looking at every bleary-eyed morning for the foreseeable future, and Homesense usually has things that I like. But it occurs to me: I have never bought myself an everyday-use teapot, other than one little plastic dealie that poured more tea on the counter than in the mug, even when I was holding it over the sink. So it's going to be a bit of an experiment to find one that doesn't drip. I wonder if they'll let me test the teapots with a bottle of water over a sink?