We tried to go to Congelton farmer's market today but we got the wrong day and it was a flea market instead. Never mind. We had fun browsing and each of the kids brought home a new toy, so it wasn't a wasted trip.I was busy in the kitchen all afternoon making 24 cheesey potato scones, 10 portions of chicken soup and a large batch of gooseberry and marrow chutney.
It's encouraging to see a lot of people have voted in the poll on this page challenging you to only boil as much water as you need. The challenge was inspired by Andy Hamilton on Selfsufficientish.com. He emailed the customer service people from Typhoo, Yorkshire Tea, Tetley, PG tips and Twinings to suggest they include advice on their packaging or adverts not to boil too much water, and he asked other people on the Selfsufficientish forums to do the same. I emailed them and got replies from Yorkshire Tea and Tetley. If you're sitting at the computer with a few minutes on your hands (and I'm guessing you do - you're not reading this blog for your work are you?) why not click on one of the links which will take you directly to a "customer comments" page and ask them to advise tea-drinkers to help save the planet. Coffee drinkers beware - we're coming after you next!
2 comments:
I find that a full kettle is insufficient for my admittedly enormous teapot. A full kettle just about fills the pot, and we take our first cup out, refill the kettle about a third full, boil it and top up the teapot, after which we remove the thingy with the tea-leaves in.
This pot provides three people with as much tea as they want for a couple of hours. We use a tea-cosy and of course, as the tea-leaves have been removed, the tea doesn't get stewed.
Loverly!
Flippin' 'eck, Geri! That's a lot of tea!
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