TB75: Baker Street Blend

Does anyone have Gerry Rafferty flashbacks when this tea is mentioned???
Just sayin… :)

Aww, now I feel nostalgic!

Okay, thanks teawing! Just youTubed it and played it for the kids. Youngest heard the opening and asked if it was a 70’s version of Mr. Saxobeat. Um…no. She listened to the whole thing, fell in love with the sax, and is now downloading it for our iPods! Sniff, sniff, sigh!

LOL!!! So glad to have a positive (?) impact on the younger ones…
I started to comment the other day but got distracted, when you mentioned it again today, like a flash, my mind went straight to it AGAIN. Classic Sax riffs for sure!

I just got some of this in the mail! Thank you, ashmanra!

Gee thanks … there goes the soundtrack in my head, too!

Teawing: Youngest just asked me to say “thank you,” as she has Baker Street on repeat.

It came as a shock to my mother when she discovered I was taller than her. She saw our reflections in a window as we were standing next to each other. Then she realised that she was wearing indoor shoes and I was just in socks… :)
How old are your children? I’m beginning to suspect that they’re older than I had initially imagined.

Youngest is 13 but I am pretty short! :)

Oh, and hubby is 6’4" so naturally there was a good chance I would soon be the shortest person in the house. Oldest daughter obliged me by only getting one inch taller than I am. And it IS quite a shock to start to fuss at your kid for not doing their chores and suddenly realize you are looking UP at them!

I thought so. For some reason I imagine she would be around ten-ish. No idea where I got that from. I expect it’s the same sort of thing that makes me get ideas about what people I’ve never met must look like, (You, for example, must surely have dark hair) and then get surprised when I see a picture of them and they don’t look at all like I thought.

@ashmanra: Please tell your youngest that the pleasure is all mine, I am glad she had her musical horizons expanded by this. And, thanks are in order to you as well, the Chai sample arrived late yesterday, I have a quiet Chai front porch evening planned tonight! I will post about it later.

Lastly, now that we have your youngest appreciating some good 70’s music, it might be time to move into the 80’s, dare I say, some New Wave music of my formative days??? ((off to look for tea references)) :)

So sorry to hear about your leg. Get well soon!

Wow, I have never even tried to resteep this! Good to know!

I’m thinking the Keemun actually pops thru more-so in the 2nd infusion :)

I have totally got to try this one.

I am intrigued by the name – reminds me of an old Gerry Rafferty song. (Dating myself)

I got a big bag of this from Doulton and was shocked when my youngest daughter loved it. I will have to get more from Upton before I run out!

I didn’t think I would like it, but it’s good!

@Azzrian I thought Sherlock Holmes, which may date me back somewhere in the 1800s

@Azzrian-a few months ago wee went through the whole Gerry Rafferty thing and now my kids have him on their iPods…all because of this tea. LOL! But yes, our first thought was Sherlock Holmes as both my daughters LOVE to read the books! The new series ain’t too shabby, either!

Oh, Amy ho, I thought I was following you? I was wondering why I had not seen your pretty lama face : )

sometimes Steepster does that, it has unfollowed some of my peeps before. Welcome back, Tea Fairy. :)

Magnifico!

I was so into Sherlock Holmes and mysteries growing up. :-)

I was a Nancy Drew gal myself :)

Oh and Nate The Great going back even further. LOL :)

Dating myself here but my all-time best all time kid Christmas gift ever was a crate full of ALL THE TRIXIE BELDEN MYSTERIES. (There weren’t that many at the time :o) Geeky fourth-grade heaven!

I don’t know that series. For me it was more Sherlock Holms, Nate The Great, and Choose Your Adventure books. I guess you can sorta tell how old I am too.

(wrinkling, sagging, and greying even as I type)

Ummm… what’s self control??? lol! I also just had to say I’m quite a bit like you in my tea drinking based on your last paragraph- although I think I probably add milk to my chai more often than you do. My only other exception is Numi’s chocolate pu erh… but that’s pretty much chai like cuz it has cinnamon and nutmeg.

Hmm, the entire point, for me, of adding milk to chai is to take the sharpness off the taste of the spices. Since that sounds like what you’re doing with the chocolate pu erh, I declare your milk usage valid! (and I’m sure you deeply care about my validation :D )

Actually not really. I just do it cuz it tastes good. The spices are way too light in the Chocolate Pu Erh to be anywhere close to sharp. It just depends if I want a milky texture or not, and if I’ve had my one serving of milk per day. (Even if I drank chai all day I’d only use a total of 1 cup of milk). A mark of a good chai (and a good tea in general) for me is that it could always be drank clean.

Amen to that last sentence!
And now, I quietly freak out because looking at your tealog has enlightened me to the fact that there exist such things as beer tea and bacon tea.

Oh yes… and their goooood! I’m dying for a vegetarian to try the bacon tea (all ingredients are vegan).

Those $1 Upton Tea samples are addicting…I love this tea in the morning w.a little milk and sugar…

Awww thank you for the kind words about that post. I’m working on another one along those lines soon. Glad you enjoyed it.

Good! I was hoping to see more of those.

Yup in the works. As you know those kinds of posts are not the easiest to just crank out.

Don’t I know it, dear. Don’t I know it. By the way, I made mention of your fictional works in my new blog that just went up…now.

I did see that. I was hoping to turn up as a cat in one of them with a penchant for puerh!

This sounds awesome just by name (and possible Sherlock Holmes reference alone). I might have to add this to the ‘Teas to Order from Upton’ list.

Wifey Woman, send me your snail mail and I can pop a packet in the post tomorrow!

I can’t send you a message. I think you have to be following me too in order to do that. Thank you for the offer as I’d really like to try it!

I thought I WAS following you! Sorry! Situation amended now! :)

I’ve had a similar experience of shifting taste bud allegiance as well. Would you say this is your favorite Lapsang Souchong that you’ve tried? I generally don’t like smokey teas (especially Keemun, gross!), but so many people have been posting about Lapsang Souchongs that now I just have to try one.

@CHAroma- I prefer Upton’s Lapsang Souchong Black Dragon.

I think Upton is a stand up company. They deliver extremely fast and their service is excellent. And they have an encyclopedic selection of tea. I will have to try this one.

Upton is wonderful. Their prices are really good and the selection is phenomenal.

Upton is what introduced me to tea leaf. A friend directed me there (and I believe this was my first from them). I absolutely love this tea. I just got a new batch from them and have been enjoying it this morning. It says afternoon but for me it’s a morning tea.

I love Upton also, I have about 12 of their samples now.