happy tea friends

I found myself a keen observer to two of my favourite people's "little tea stand" today when I brought my Mango on a walk-about. Everyone, meet Tim and Alethea. The baby is Nathalie who was not part of the tea making team, but is so totally adorable that I'm putting a picture of her here anyway. The other girl with Nathalie is my little sister Ann. Ok, let's get down to flower-tea making...


Ok, first, you must take your order from your customer. In this case, customer means Mango- my I'll-consume-anything-that-looks-remotely-like-food retriever. So after your customer orders- or in our case, pretend ordering you set about gathering flower-tea leaves. They can usually be found at the side of the road. Well, that was where we found today's stash anyway.


Second, you go load up on water. It needn't be boiled, really. Then you pour the water into the pool of flower-tea leaves.


Following that, you go find a stick (choice of a long stick or short stick- either ways it works) for swirling the flower-tea leaves about. Or you could stomp on the leaves ala wine pressing, we're not fussed really. :)

And you get flower-tea!!!