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Tea-ny Tiny Tea Cosy!
 Well, I don't know about you guys, but all I can say after the first week of Vegan Mofo is just 'Phewee!!!'. I made the (un?)wise decision of picking up the blog bundle for my Google reader and suffice to say, for the first time in my life I know what Talking Heads meant when they sang about being on 'The Road to Nowhere' - Hah!So many fantastic blogs, so few hours in the day! On the bright side, as I'm skimming the top of my Google reader like a patient cook skimming the froth off the top of my pan of beans, I'm coming across some brilliant blogs that I was completely unaware existed out here in the blogosphere. It seems like there's the twenty or so blogs you know about and about another six hundred or so lurking round the corner waiting to surprise you with their wit and inventiveness! One such blog - quite literally around the corner from me as the blogger is based in my old stomping ground of Manchester - is 'Tea and Sympatico'. Not only has Caroline got a great name for her blog but she's also part of The Cake Liberation Front (seriously, where am I when these movements happen?!!) and she knits the cutest vegan teacosies. She's the kind of girl I like to imagine my McGonnagle will grow up to be like - compassion, cupcakes, knitting, it's all good! Now, I'm quite partial to a cup of tea, as you all know, and I've got a little thing about having to brew my tea in a teapot, even if it's only for one cup. Must be the way I was raised - and when I say 'raised', I actually mean 'must be the way I married a tea-gulping monster' where it's easier and less time-consuming to brew a pot of tea than make individual cups. So recently I acquired a very cute, single-serving teapot that's the perfect size for making me a nice strong mug of char, or making enough tea for me and the kids to take afternoon tea with one of my car-boot sale tea sets.  Little teapot next to Big teapot, for comparison purposes.But, of course, I was lacking the obligatory tea cosy for it, meaning that it cooled down too quickly. Teapots - like babies - should be kept at a constant temperature to get the best out of them. Let them get too cold, and they quickly begin to stew and get bitter. (Yes, babies too.) Lo and Behold, Caroline understands this, and makes baby-tea-cosies as well as regular-sized ones perfect for slipping over a single-serving teapot like my own.  Awww!I ordered one, it arrived promptly with a few nice teabags thrown in for good measure -  Thanks very much!and needless to say, I am very, very happy.  Looks like a babies hat - for a teapot!I love the opportunity to give a fellow blogger a boost, so if you're partial to perfectly-warm tea and craving something quirky to brighten up your plain old teapot, I suggest you give the Tea and Sympatico folksy shop a try! Talking of babies, I became 'Auntie Dee' for real for the very first time over the weekend when my brother-in-law and his wife had a gorgeous little boy. I'm sure you'll all raise your cup of tea with me to welcome Baby Harry into the world. Though with all these tyro-tea drinkers in the family now, I might need to get myself a bigger teapot...  related searches : Tea
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