The History of Tea in Scotland We are really proud to be a Scottish, independently owned tea company. Scotland has a rich history and so does its capital city – Edinburgh. We love being based in Edinburgh (although we ship world wide) and enjoy interacting with all the tea lovers
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Well, hasn’t Black Friday gone a bit mental this year? It’s more like Black Friday Week. Black Friday is a challenging concept for small, independent businesses like ours. It’s impossible to compete in the epic battle of the discounts and that’s not what we’re all about. Did you know that
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“Sereni – tea / The absence of stress while drinking tea” Have you ever thought of drinking tea as a way of slowing down or decreasing stress? This week is all about self care. Monday was Chicken Soup for the Soul day, today is National Kindness Day, Saturday is
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Wellness with eteaket & Carole McMurray On the 1st of November we hosted our latest Wellness with eteaket event. We were joined by Carole McMurray who is a regular in our Tea Room but is also an expert in Primordial Sound Meditation. This month we tasted Silver Needle, Orange Oolong
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Five fun ways to use Pumpkin Chai this Halloween. It is the spookiest week of the year and we are very excited. Our Pumpkin Chai Black Tea has been flying off our shelves and if you have managed to get your hands on some firstly well done and secondly we
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The Power of Tea this National Arthritis Day This week has been a big one. Wednesday was World Mental Health Day, Thursday was the International Day of the Girl and today is World Arthritis Day. It was also National Curry Week which made us think about the power of Turmeric,
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Wellness with eteaket & My Ayurveda Scotland This month we had the pleasure of learning about Ayurveda from Louise Dodds. Louise is one of the only Ayurvedic specialists in Scotland. Her talk was both life changing and mind blowing. We started with tea. This month we tasted, Lemon and Ginger,
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National Fitness Day has arrived and it’s a great excuse for many of us to get moving. For this blog we asked our TEAm to share with us how they like to get fit… enjoy. Fitness is something you can progressively build on and you can have fun along the
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I realised this morning that it’s exactly 10 years ago since Lehman Brothers collapsed, leading to the most traumatic economic experience of our lifetime. That means that it’s exactly 10 years ago that my husband Stewart, rabbit Dave and me packed up all our belongings in our little blue car
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Shh. It’s National Quiet Day. I can hear what you’re thinking, quiet? Is there such a thing? There seems to be noise everywhere these days. Whether it’s the constant ringing of phones, screaming of kids, constant chatter in your own head or the noise of information overload, this constant immersion
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