Afternoon tea

Sunday, 4 May 2015 - Towards the end of my full-time National Service stint, I started attending French lessons at Alliançe Français, and made some nice friends there. I don't know what prompted this, but one day two of them gave me a tea infuser, as well as some tea leaves. That sort of sparked off a low key interest in tea that continues to this day.

This photo was taken 3-4 years after the event. I ended up using that same tea infuser for years. Eventually I even brought it to the graduate student office with me when I was doing my MA. In those days I drank so much tea I actually got acid reflux, without understanding what acid reflux was or suspecting that the tea might have been the cause of it. All I knew was I had a lot of work I needed to get done, and the tea helped. Really quite silly.

At some point the slits in the glass infuser started to get chipped. I think it was sort of inevitable, the thing being designed the way it was. And so then I threw it out.