Ya-Ya’s Tea-Board

Thank you for all your concerned emails and best wishes. I’m trying to answer all of you in due time, but things are rather chaotic in Christchurch the morning after the 6.3 quake yesterday and this way I can reach most of you simultaneously.

We are doing o.k., but many people who live or work in the CBD weren’t as lucky as we were. A few buildings have completely collapsed and due to the the time the earthquake hit (about 1 p.m.), a lot of people were affected in the central city. Our thoughts and love are with those who have injuries or deaths amongst their families and friends. We have only incurred minor damage to some of our tea stock and teaware. We have quite a bit of mixed green/black/oolong and white tea leaves on the floor of our storage area. While we don’t usually sell blends, maybe I should create a Special Edition “Quake Blend”? It would consist of some very fine leaves, but the result would be rather random…

I haven’t been to the areas affected the worst, but to give you an impression how much Christchurch resembles these “End-of-the-World” Hollywood scenarios, have a look at the picture at the top of this post. It was taken just 100m down the road from our house this morning. Scary stuff…

Alright, I better get back to cleaning the house and getting the trailer loads worth of silt (a product of ground liquefaction) out of the backyard.

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