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Glad you’re on the mend.

We do take for granted how easy life is today. Look how I can comment on letters between two folks in the UK instantaneously.

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Thanks, Carissa. Yes, a very good example! 😀

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Mar 14Liked by Terry Freedman

I hope you feel better soon, and your cats are keeping you good company, and your tea is perfect in every way, every time. Love the part about Jane Austen's wardrobe - my library doesn't have that particular book, so I'll suggest they get it. Your girlfriend in your wonderful drawing looks concerned . . .

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Thanks, Mary. Yes, Minty and I are an item.

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Loved this letter, Terry, although I resent the implication that I do not habitually keep a stock of teabags on standby, because I DO! I'd been trying to order more for weeks....

Loved the Tommy Cooper joke - see, prepositions are so important!

It seems that an eighteenth century Rebecca having to buy fabric for her dresses would have soon been bankrupt. #heightist 😠 Loved the ready-to-wear link - really interesting.

I learn so much from your letters, Terry - thank you. ☺️ Brace yerself, though - I'm in the process of drafting my pithy response.... 🤭

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Thanks! Re: your pending response: gulp

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Forgot to mention: a bag of 600 - SIX HUNDRED - teabags was delivered to my door on Tuesday. I'd given up on trying to order tiny packets and pulled out the big guns in a fit of pique. Serves me right.... 😉

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Correction - it's 400! Barely ANY, really.....! I don't know why I'd thought it was 600 - it's the scale of the packaging that's made me giddy! Sorry!

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Fake news rears it's ugly head yet again.

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.....along with dodgy apostoph-use......! 😉

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600? You're serious about this, aren't you

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ARRRRGHHHH!!!! No, it's 400!!!!! I've just checked. Turns out I AM a deep-faking bot after all...... I'm so sorry!

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I rest my case

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Soz, m'lud! 😔

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😃

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Yup. Photographic evidence (no, not deep-faked) will prove it. 🤣

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Anything can be faked, Becks. In fact, how do I know that YOU are not a bot?

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🌀🤖😵‍💫

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Just as I thought!

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Mar 13Liked by Terry Freedman

Here at Casa Cummings, we don't drink a lot of tea but during our trip to Ireland, we noticed that every Airbnb we stayed in had an insta-kettle on the countertop. My wife became so enamored with them we had to buy one the moment we got home. We still don't drink much tea.

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Casa Cummings: 🤣 Every hotel room in Britain has one, there'd be riots otherwise! You still don't drink much tea: LOL

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Either the British army dropping in or the Sons of Liberty seizing it and dumping it into American seas, or simply a case of the local Indian store running out of the Tata Tetley brand, one must be armed with plenty of those loose luscious brown leaves at home—wrapped tightly in a bag ideally—so they don’t wander off into the wrong hands, or waters and help us have a merry afternoon.

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Lol. So you're another bag lady? I am surrounded by philistines

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Well, every lady is a bag lady;) but I am definitely a spoilt by modern convention tea bags lady as opposed to loose leaf kind;)

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Plebians. I am doomed to spend my time with plebians. Very true about bag ladies and women. I'd better not say any more. 🤣

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