This thought prompted by remembering how one person was commenting on how the particular snack bowls seemed to “live” on the tea table that they’d seen and how it must be because drinking tea stimulates appetite etc and couldn’t event consider that putting snacks out for your guests is just a normal hospitality thing (at least within my family’s culture).
I don’t even practice gongfu tea myself but if someone comes round there will be snacks on the table ready.
Joined a tea (primarily Chinese tea) discord because I had a discount code for some tea website and they had a discord and it is fascinating how white the vibe is, particularly since my experience with tea drinking (particularly gongfu tea) has primarily been with my Chinese family and like… it’s not a huge, serious, formal deal. It’s just hanging out, drinking tea.
@alpine_thistle I saw this and thought of you! There is a zoom option if you want to attend (tho not sure how timezone will pan out for you etc) https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/Event/the-strange-joyfulness-of-bonhoeffers-prison-letters
1. Lol, to have a job
2. BEng Computer Science/Software Engineering
4. Database wrangler for a charity
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Today is a bangers and mash kind of a day
Finished my end of year film round up yesterday and only now remembering to share it. Next up, do my hair and then eat custard.
https://blog.herdivineshadow.com/2025/01/2024-films-and-stuff/
https://blog.herdivineshadow.com/2025/01/2024-films-and-stuff/
Not me looking at the Universal Scrobbler subreddit and the “cancel subscription” posts and being like “I’ve got premium but no subscription, what’s going on”
and now finally, after years of wondering about this, have finally realised that I paid a one off $5 YEARS ago instead of going for a monthly $1 and this is why