Category: Musings

  • Flummery

    Our search is to define a 21st-century high tea. It’s no longer about cucumber sandwiches, and tea with cold or hot milk, but it is something different. We are not trying to replicate a traditional English afternoon tea but we are challenging them to find the 21st-century high tea . Dilhan C. Fernando Dilhan C.…

  • Tea Tasting & Pairing, According to Betty Kloster

    Betty Koster is a Cheese Connoisseur who has some opinions about how to taste and pair Tea with Food. Here are some of her thoughts on this topic… It is acknowledged that we have the ability to discern and identify the four tastes of sweet, sour, salt and bitter. We can also taste umami, called…

  • Water Quality and Tea

    When it comes to Water, my views on the, “Evil Empire” are well and truly known. This leaves the questions: Are there any local options, and what are they? Further when it comes to tea, the quality of the water can significantly impact the flavour of the brewed tea, and its appearance, especially with black…

  • Forty Days and Forty Nights…

    Forty Days and Forty Nights…

    “’A period of Forty Days signifies the completion in the realization of an event.’ (Fr. Charles Nicholas Baz) When something, specifically an event, is practiced and remembered for 40 days, it makes it real and present in our daily lives. It becomes sealed in our works and etched in our memory…” (source: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/40-days-and-40-nights-in-the-bible-importance-today.html) Is this real…

  • Day Thirty Four of Lockdown

    Day Thirty Four of Lockdown

    Still no news, still locked down. Today my focus was my website. For some days, My webserver capacity had been exceeded. After some scurrying around, and destroying some subdomains in the process, I found the cause was old website backups. Deleting those, I was finally able to move forward. I’ve uploaded, finally, the images for…

  • Natural Art

    Natural Art

    Yesterday, its rained heavily; at one point beating against my window.Bored out of my mind I took a photo of the rain on the window. Reviewing it after, It has quickly become one of my most favourite images: the rain has pushed the entire background into a blur, from dynamic rivulets of water splashing, pooling,…

  • Content with Content Creation in this new Societal Media Space?

    Content with Content Creation in this new Societal Media Space?

    When I was a lad, in the late 60’s to mid 80’s of late last century, The Media consisted of Broadsheets and Magazines (print media) Radio, and TV. Public discourse and input into political discussion took place through broadcasts, Letters to the Editor, Town Hall meetings, and the Ballot Box. With the exception of Letters…

  • What Happened to Tsc Tempest Photography?

    What Happened to Tsc Tempest Photography?

    Nothing. We’re still here. Quietly working on a major project which produces almost daily updates. That Project? “Today’s Tea” is the working title. Tsc Tempest Photography took off in a major way when I started freelancing in Hanoi, Vietnam. After 4 years in Hanoi, I and my family relocated to Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg is a…

  • Havin’ a bit of fun

    Havin’ a bit of fun

    I decided to play around with an old Australian Folk Song, “Flash Jack from Gundagai,” and wondered what if someone parodied it as a jingle for Bundaberg Rum? #Bundaberg, #BundabergRum, #BundyRum, #FlashJackTheBunndyGuy,

  • MoMA – Seeing Through Pictures

    MoMA – Seeing Through Pictures

    Well today, I finally completed an Online course with New York’s, Museum of Modern Art and I am very happy to have completed it. The course was hosted (delivered) by Cousera who’s Support Services have proved to be outstanding indeed. The course itself was well structured, with ample video resources and written resources. The written resources DO…