Tea Appreciation Society – We love tea
Tea Appreciation Society
Put your love of tea to the test with Cravendale
May 20th
Our friends at Cravendale are committed to the perfect cup of tea. They know we all have our individual traits and tastes in tea making and as members of the Tea Appreciation Society, they need your expertease to complete their “MakesThe Best” survey.
Ten randomly selected tea experts who complete the survey will win a Tea Appreciation Society gift set and a month’s supply of Cravendale to enjoy the very best brew.
Bottoms up,
Love from everyone at the Tea Appreciation Society & Cravendale Milk
TEArrific prizes from the Tea Appreciation Society
May 13th
The Tea Appreciation Society are giving away some TEArrific prizes!
Artist Melanie Chadwick has kindly offered some of her wonderful designs to give away to coincide with her I ♥ Tea exhibition, which runs until the end of May at the Here and Now Gallery, 41a Killigrew Street, Falmouth. There are zines, tea-towels, framed originals, painted plates and mugs all on the theme of Tea at the exhibition.
To be in with a chance to win some of Melanie’s pieces of I ♥ Tea art simply sign up to our periodical newsletter – enter your email address in the box on the top right of our website. The winners will be picked at random and announced next Thursday. (Open to UK residents only).
PRIZE ONE
- 1 Fine Tea Tea-towel – colourway-Pink RRP £9
- 1 Fine Tea A4 Signed Print on Somerset Textured Paper RRP £12
PRIZE TWO
- 1 Teatime Treats Tea-towel -colourway Yellow RRP £9
- 1 Teatime Treats A4 Signed Print on Somerset Textured Paper RRP £12
PRIZE THREE
- 1 Original Framed Artwork -Tea’s a-brewing Watercolour and pen and ink RRP £25
Artist: Melanie Chadwick
Website: www.melaniechadwick.com
Blog: www.mellybeeillustration.co.uk
Twitter: @mellybeeblog
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mellybeeillustration
Tea Trivia Infographic
Apr 21st
We really like this info-graphic from Canadian graphic designer Laurissa Barnes-Roberts of BR Creative
If you are an artist or graphic designer, or simply handy with a pencil and you would like more people to see your work, you can submit a contribution to the Tea Appreciation Society by emailing shayne@lovetea.co.uk
A chance to win tickets to Royal Wedding campsite Camp Royale
Mar 29th
What do you think ‘Kate’ is saying to ‘Will’ in this picture? For a chance to win one of five £150 pairs of tickets to London’s royal wedding campsite Camp Royale (plus travel, courtesy of National Express) just post your answer on the Yorkshire Tea blog before 2pm on Wed 6th April.
From Thursday 28th April to Sunday 1st May, this special campsite on Clapham Common will offer 10,000 happy campers a unique way to celebrate Kate Middleton and Prince William’s wedding.
For £75 per person for 3 nights, Camp Royale will have 24 hour security, hot showers, dedicated family areas, and a giant screen to watch the wedding on, of course. Yorkshire Tea will be offering free cups of tea every morning from a special tea tent.
Our Man in Rajasthan
Mar 20th
Our man in Rajasthan. Owen Terry.
Jaisalmer Rajasthan to be precise.
He grabs the day by the horns with a magnificent cup of English Breakfast tea
Tally Ho Binky!
Slalom Tea
Mar 13th
This beautiful sunshine makes me want to put on my roller blades and do the tea slalom like our friends at Yorkshire Tea did in Miami!
That’s after I’ve had finished relaxing with my brew sat in the sunshine…
A spring in your step
Mar 7th
No need to use a studio today, the light outside is magnificent. Spring is here folks.*
Grab a cup of your finest brew and head outside. Tell your boss I said it’s OK.
*Northern Hemisphere
Tea and Kittens
Feb 27th
The Daily Mail and Daily Express are popular UK tabloid newspapers.
When using the internet in the UK it’s almost impossible to avoid occasionally accessing the website of one or the other, even if one finds their political and social outlook unpleasant or offensive. This is usually caused by accidental forays into the danger zone often caused by clicking on URL shortened links.
KittenBlock is a Firefox add on by Tom Royal and is designed to solve this problem. It performs one simple function: if the browser is directed to either website it will be redirected instead to a selection of photos of cups of tea and fluffy kittens from http://www.teaandkittens.co.uk
There is no override option, and there are no options to configure. The extension can be disabled in the usual manner should the user wish. Although why you would want to do that is beyond us…
Tea on the open road
Feb 4th
Our friend Martin Dorey is a man who loves life as much as he loves his tea. His first book, The Campervan Cookbook, contains an entire section devoted to elevenses and the perfect cuppa in a camper. In fact, getting a brew on is a recurring theme throughout his enormously popular celebration of life aboard a classic VW camper. What better way to greet the AA man than with a cup of steaming hot tea? Indeed.
Last summer – as a result of the book – Martin spent 5 weeks driving around the UK in search of the very best in camper van living for a new BBC2 TV series, One Man and His Camper Van.
The show follows Martin around the country as he cooks, forages, fishes and has fun in his 1970s classic camper. In total the van covered 2500 (virtually) trouble free miles on this odyssey to find the very best in camper van food. It’s an adventure filled with moules on the beach, lobsters on a cliff top, bilberry jam in a camper van and all kinds of other gorgeous goodies.
So why not join us on our big fat virtual sofa with a mug of your favourite tea to share Martin’s adventure when it hits our screens on Monday 7th February at 6.30pm. We think you might just ♥ it.
Tea Appreciation Society co-founder Shayne House will be working with Martin to extol the virtues of The Tea Appreciation Society and all it means in Martin’s new book coming soon. So watch this space…
Martin’s camper van dashboard wears Tea Appreciation Society I ♥ Tea mug. Available from our online shop: Tea Appreciation Society online shop.
Bag yourself a bargain!
Jan 25th
Pssst, don’t tell everyone but we’re having a TEArrific sale…
So bag yourself a bargain while you can at the Tea Appreciation Society shop
Chin Chin!
