So, we’re taking a little break from the sencha reviews today because I had a bit too much caffeine and need to stop for a couple of days to get my gastric under control, but I have some good news: I managed to get my brother to try a tisane!! He’s really not a tea… Read More I made my sibling try Detective Conan Tea!
If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen me share stories from this hilarious book. Ask the Past is a collection of some of the weirdest (and not so weird) advice found in various books. There’s not much to say about this, but I wanted to share some of my favourite pieces of… Read More Book Review: Ask the Past by Elizabeth P. Archibald
We’re at tea three and about one third of the way done with this series! I’ve been enjoying all the sencha and am really looking forward to doing a mass-comparison session once I’m done with the individual reviews. This third tea was chosen by the entirely scientific process of opening the tea cabinet and picking… Read More Tea Review: Hokumei by Hiraoka-en (Sayama Tea #3)
This has been on my TBR list for a while (I think because of Bookstagram? Or maybe I saw it in one of the blogs I follow? Maybe both?) so when I finally managed to go to the library earlier this month when they re-opened, I hunted (and found!) a copy to read! I was… Read More Book Review: The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda
Instead of doing one mega-post and potentially missing out on stuff at the end of the year, I thought I’d do a mid-year update (I know, I’m late!) on what I’m listening to! While I can’t really get into audiobooks for some reason, I listen to so many podcasts and am always looking for more.… Read More Mid-Year Podcast Updates
Yes, we’re back for another Classic Remarks, hosted by Pages Unbound! I’ve been preparing for this since June, when I reread both The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy. This week’s prompt: During her life, Frances Hodgson Burnett received more acclaim for Little Lord Fauntleroy than for The Secret Garden. Today the reverse is true. What do you… Read More Classic Remarks: Why is The Secret Garden more popular than Little Lord Fauntleroy?
I am drinking these teas at a good pace! Hopefully I can keep this up without aggravating my gastric (people with high caffeine tolerances: I want to be you when I grow up). Today’s sencha is from the Musashi-kaori cultivar and comes from Masuoka-en. First Impressions Interestingly, the tea is pretty tightly packed for this… Read More Tea Review: Musashi-Kaori by Masuoka-en (Sayama Tea #2)
As someone who’s made her fair share of relationship missteps over the years, How to Have a Better Relationship with Anybody intrigued me when I saw it on NetGalley. It’s a look at relationships from a Christian perspective, and I found that it complemented God’s New Community and The Meeting Class quite well. While those… Read More Book Review: How to Have a Better Relationship with Anybody by James Hilt
I hope you guys like sencha because my tea posts for the next two months are going to be all about sencha (and one about matcha)! My teas from Sayama have arrived and I realised that I ordered…. nine different types of sencha! All are from different cultivars and I think only two are from… Read More Tea Review: Fukumidori by Ohnishien (Sayama Tea #1)
According to WordPress, this is my 1000th post! The first post appeared in 2014 when I was blogging about my life in Japan (this blog has undergone many changes, including a move from blogger to WordPress). I don’t know if it’s my true 1000th post, but I still thought it would be fun to celebrate… Read More Childhood Favourites: Was Five Run Away Together inspired by the Secret Series?
