tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post3176746372609183927..comments2023-08-04T21:25:23.543+01:00Comments on A Heron's View: Bitter and Red TeaA Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-65334561158193951692010-04-23T21:25:32.726+01:002010-04-23T21:25:32.726+01:00My thanks to one and all for your comments. Rooibo...My thanks to one and all for your comments. Rooibos is a very versatile herbal tea & is as far as I know the only one that can be be drank with milk. We like to let it brew for 15 miutes or so to strengthen the flavour, it can also be added to stews/soups etc and another use is to apply it cold to sunburnt skin.A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-29775674089019863082010-04-21T16:25:05.023+01:002010-04-21T16:25:05.023+01:00Rooibos is the only tea I drink. Having lived in b...Rooibos is the only tea I drink. Having lived in beautiful SA for 20 years, it was simply the tea to drink. Luckily it's available in every supermarket here in Holland...the Dutch connection, I suppose. I love it and normal English tea just doesn't it it for me anymore.<br /><br />Now I want to read the ladies' detective agency booksnow. My soul longs for Africa more often than I care to admit.Nice mmories and moving poetry too. Thanks Mel!<br /><br />Like Anne Marie, I am also a Cider lover when it comes to somethin stronger than Rooibos.Vallypeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08309284606572565277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-51617862356883557542010-04-20T11:39:54.953+01:002010-04-20T11:39:54.953+01:00I've not tried red tea yet, but I have been co...I've not tried red tea yet, but I have been contemplating reading the books you mention. In 1980 I was in the last year of school, deciding whether to go to France fruit picking or not ... I decided against it in the end.<br /><br />Shirl xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-60479630858010858182010-04-20T00:38:43.975+01:002010-04-20T00:38:43.975+01:00I was taking a sales course when Lennon was killed...I was taking a sales course when Lennon was killed.....The next sales course I did, the twin towers came down, I was thinking about a sales course in July.....<br /><br />Only kidding....<br /><br />When the flavour of booze fills yer senses 1st thing in the morning......<br /><br />Well.......?????????itahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11363226280668299287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-17716797371557038892010-04-19T22:31:28.585+01:002010-04-19T22:31:28.585+01:00Hey - I'm a fan of AMS too, but not that tea, ...Hey - I'm a fan of AMS too, but not that tea, I'm big on green tea and camomile tea. Re JL, I was sitting in a Hillman of some kind outside Naik's Newsagents in Cotteridge whilst the BF, later to become husband, went in for ciggies. Nowt to beat infusions from hops and apples though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-74445820379576924792010-04-19T00:52:56.031+01:002010-04-19T00:52:56.031+01:00Rooibos & a good ale just happen to my fav lux...Rooibos & a good ale just happen to my fav luxuries! <br /><br />Thank you for your messages on my blog. I love reading your blog, your writing throws up such strong imagery! I can almost smell that little old Welsh pub! <br /><br />hen<br />xhenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14862469963939581449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-24104198397626355732010-04-18T22:41:57.344+01:002010-04-18T22:41:57.344+01:00Hi Heron,
I am more of a cider girl than a beer fa...Hi Heron,<br />I am more of a cider girl than a beer fan, though I know my father had one of those dimpled glasses when we were little to enjoy his pilsener. I don't think I have ever had red tea, as the style here in Canada leans heavily towards orange pekoe, which is a grade of black tea. I am also a fan of vanilla tea, which has just been delivered from Mauritius to me by my visiting mum. I am also a great fan of an orange peel, cinnamon and clove brand from the US, which I've ordered as you can't get it here.<br /><br />Toronto has a lot of pubs, many of whom are English and Irish style, but I believe it is also the place with more coffee shops per capita in the world. I might want to verify that, but it's amazing how many there are.<br /><br />xx<br />AMAnne-Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05960236584908811801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-74181801017521313602010-04-18T21:35:25.794+01:002010-04-18T21:35:25.794+01:00P.S. I was up some scaffolding, chopping stone as ...P.S. I was up some scaffolding, chopping stone as usual, when you were in the P.H., listening to the death of Lennon. Where were you when Kennedy got whacked?Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-44143896809100204142010-04-18T21:30:45.434+01:002010-04-18T21:30:45.434+01:00The Pack Horse is more than a memory for me, thoug...The Pack Horse is more than a memory for me, though I hardly ever go there these days. In your day, it was renowned for cider, but these days it's gone down the Gatsro route - still a nice place though. I have a friend who was badly beaten up in the car park for placing his glass on the Shove-Ha'penny board, which was kept in tip-top condition by a bunch of alcoholic locals then.<br /><br />Roobosh (as I like to call it) is a good tea, especially after a night in the Pack Horse.Tom Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979590950587415840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-77210532559248578332010-04-18T19:29:48.666+01:002010-04-18T19:29:48.666+01:00Lovely memories, interesting spring seems to do th...Lovely memories, interesting spring seems to do that to me too- Ah and poetry - and I will have to get some 'red tea', always did like it and have none here, in the bonny hills of Dorset.Stringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01498712028223889219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-78606813900507099262010-04-18T16:10:32.780+01:002010-04-18T16:10:32.780+01:00What a coincidence.......I have just finished my d...What a coincidence.......I have just finished my delicious cup of Rooibos, 'red bush', first introduced to me on a trip to beautiful South Africa 18 years ago! The country pub and half a cheshire cat is calling..........Ericahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09065005779326623357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-28233423446262621542010-04-18T15:18:45.366+01:002010-04-18T15:18:45.366+01:00Through one's student years, the pub' beco...Through one's student years, the pub' becomes a second home. Later it becomes a refuge. I very rarely visit pubs now (when I'm in the UK), but love the idea of them. A good friendly 'local' is a wonderful place; it's where people meet and discuss.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.com