The Green Light

You know what's brilliant about this title?
That it refers to both Harry Potter (Avada Kedavra) and to The Great Gatsby which I recently watched.

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning ——”

And I must say to all those people who didn't like the movie, I thought it was quite brilliant. The voice overs, the energy, the costuming it was almost my imagination come to life.

And to Leonardo Dicaprio, well darling you haven't aged a day since you last starred in a massive period movie, that being Titanic.

That being said, I'm curious as to how many people actually read the book before watching the movie because I might just poke my nose in the air, once more as I'm won't to do (but that may be because that my fringe has gotten so long it's eating my face but the time is never right to get it cut. I feel like Lucius Malfoy and his wig. I'm going to develop a crick and have arthritis before I'm 20) and say 'Why yes darling, I read it at the age of 15, it was quite the enchanting book and Fitzgerald just has a way with words doesn't he?'

In other news, the exercise regime is currently...on hiatus. I suppose that would be how you put it.

We currently feel and look like this cat called Snoopy from somewhere in Asia that reminds me of a loaf of bread

Exams and final assessments came along and we were like, when the assessment period is over. But now we need to start running for city2surf so we need shoes of quality to pound the pavement. Another brilliant excuse is that it's winter and it's too hard to get up and out of bed when it's so much warmer under the covers.

So now the lazy habits are taking over. Such as I've finished Sherlock Holmes and I have begun Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, it's one of my 'OMG! $6 for a Vintage Classics book? Oh my, keep your bloomers on darlings.'

I've also decided to report on my experiments with The T2 trials of blooming/blossoming tea leading to what is called Chrysanthemum Burst.

Chrysanthemum Burst. I'm too lazy to take pretty pictures these days, especially as I'm always in a mobile device and truthfully the image quality just isn't up to par.

It's the photo from the T2 site, but it looks much more... Exciting in real time. One of the things I think T2 are forgetting with this is that, one of the influencing factors for the blossoming tea market is the beauty which they haven't quite managed. It's looks very bland, sure it blooms but it's all muted greens and white. The others ones I've tried are all lovely, with bright yellow flowers or spots of pink.

The flavour is strong, it flavours more teapots than they claim unless you like the heaviness because to me, tea is a refreshing, it flavours the water. You take a sip and the taste washes across your palate, hinting at something more, something deeper, more subtle. Then you swallow and it goes down smoothly and warms or refreshes you. It's not like coffee or soft drinks where it's an explosion in your mouth.

I don't know how many cups I brewed simply refilling my pot and waiting for it to steep to perfection every time.

Side note for your entertainment: Second picture of Snoopy the cat which reminds me of Michael Ling and the captions just fit him to a tee.