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Archive for 2011/06


A ray of light in dark times

Having now been through 3 big earthquakes, people in Christchurch know the problems they are facing and quickly slipped back into the routine: assessing damage and breakage, liquefaction cleanup and driving at 20 km/h through broken streets. This time around, the adaption to the circumstances happened really fast. It is amazing, how adaptable people are.

Hit by earthquakes (mark the ‘s’!) again, but still doing alright

As you might have already heard, Christchurch was rattled again by two large earthquakes this afternoon (the first one at magnitude 5.5, the second one at 6.0). Lost a few (fortunately almost empty) tea containers again, but apart from that (and a small amount of liquefaction), we’re alright. I actually wanted to write about more […]

New Darjeeling First Flushes and a new Assam black tea

As announced last month, we had a shipment of new Darjeeling 1st flush teas coming. The first two have finally arrived and I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce them alongside a new addition to our offerings of high quality Assam black teas. I expect the new stock of the outstanding Arya Ruby First […]