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Whisky certainly helps attain the proper orientation for looking straight up.DRT wrote:I did not say that tea was the only thing I drink whilst looking straight up. Whisky tends to help with that.
You make it sound so tawdry. It's not a 'flat' it's a studio. It's like Studio 54! All covered in silver, up all night, Andy's here, Candy's here, just doing whatever we like whenever we want.DRT wrote:Daniel might be on to something here and not just rambling away like a lunatic in his Berlin flat.
)I think I can picture it, but I can't decide between a scene from The Young Ones or the party scene in Crocodile Dundee.djewesbury wrote:You make it sound so tawdry. It's not a 'flat' it's a studio. It's like Studio 54! All covered in silver, up all night, Andy's here, Candy's here, just doing whatever we like whenever we want.DRT wrote:Daniel might be on to something here and not just rambling away like a lunatic in his Berlin flat.
I will tell you some more complaints about this library when we're in the Mosel.djewesbury wrote:Except librarians. Librarians always find something to complain about ("oh the stacks are so far away" etc etc etc).
(Sorry André!
I somehow knew you would!AW77 wrote:I will tell you some more complaints about this library when we're in the Mosel.djewesbury wrote:Except librarians. Librarians always find something to complain about ("oh the stacks are so far away" etc etc etc).
(Sorry André!
I know, I've heard that Otto on the front desk is really up himself, and Hienrik never pays his tea bills and is no better than he ought to be if you know what I mean and Herr Direktor was caught with that tramp from accounts on the Christmas night out!AW77 wrote:I will tell you some more complaints about this library when we're in the Mosel.djewesbury wrote:Except librarians. Librarians always find something to complain about ("oh the stacks are so far away" etc etc etc).
(Sorry André!
One thing about it is that everyone who works there is very friendly, which is no mean feat in Berlin. This is a city where, if you speak German to them, they wearily reply to you in English; and if you speak English, they angrily reply to you in German. They're like that. But in the library they've been very helpful and friendly. Probably they all know nobody can touch them because they have the photocopies of Herr Direktor and that tramp from accounts (I think he pressed the 'Scan and Send To All' button by mistake, hit it with his knee..).LGTrotter wrote:I know, I've heard that Otto on the front desk is really up himself, and Hienrik never pays his tea bills and is no better than he ought to be if you know what I mean and Herr Direktor was caught with that tramp from accounts on the Christmas night out!AW77 wrote:I will tell you some more complaints about this library when we're in the Mosel.djewesbury wrote:Except librarians. Librarians always find something to complain about ("oh the stacks are so far away" etc etc etc).
(Sorry André!
Berliners are the rudest people you can find in Germany. (Second come people from Bremen, I think). So they're rude not because you're a foreigner or English, it's simply because you just bother them at all. They're rude to me everytime I'm there, too. And if you watch closely, they're rude to each other as well. Next time you should go to the south (Bavaria) or the west (the Rhineland). People there are more friendly. Sometimes I think that religion is one factor here. The west and south are traditional catholic areas. But this may just be a coincidence that has nothing to do with it.djewesbury wrote:This is a city where, if you speak German to them, they wearily reply to you in English; and if you speak English, they angrily reply to you in German. They're like that.
It is easy to reconcile this in your head. If you bought a cup of tea from a cafe you would pay between £1-£4 for the privilege. That means Tea Pigs are up to 1/15th of the price of Tetley.AHB wrote:Try your local supermarket, but (leans in conspiratorially and whispers) look on the top shelf.
Try Tea Pigs or a similar brand. And be prepared to pay something like £4 for 15 teabags!
What price a decent cup of tea? Even unto half my kingdom, well four quid should be alright.DRT wrote:It is easy to reconcile this in your head. If you bought a cup of tea from a cafe you would pay between £1-£4 for the privilege. That means Tea Pigs are up to 1/15th of the price of Tetley.AHB wrote:Try your local supermarket, but (leans in conspiratorially and whispers) look on the top shelf.
Try Tea Pigs or a similar brand. And be prepared to pay something like £4 for 15 teabags!
Cheaper than a horse.LGTrotter wrote:What price a decent cup of tea? Even unto half my kingdom, well four quid should be alright.DRT wrote:It is easy to reconcile this in your head. If you bought a cup of tea from a cafe you would pay between £1-£4 for the privilege. That means Tea Pigs are up to 1/15th of the price of Tetley.AHB wrote:Try your local supermarket, but (leans in conspiratorially and whispers) look on the top shelf.
Try Tea Pigs or a similar brand. And be prepared to pay something like £4 for 15 teabags!
Today I am finishing the last of my packets of Prince of Wales tea. Very nice. I can see why you recommended it as it is very similar to the keemun loose leaf tea that I enjoy so much. Thank you!AW77 wrote:If you like Keemun, try Twinning's Prince of Wales tea:Glenn E. wrote: Keemun and Yunnan are my favorites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_tea_blend
http://www.twiningsusa.com/templates/pr ... oupGuid=70
That's my favourite black tea. It's curiously not on the UK market, which I discovered some years ago while looking for it in Twinings' tiny shop on the Strand. The people there told me that they just produce it for foreign markets.