Showing posts with label Manchester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manchester. Show all posts

07 June 2008

Scruffy!



While we're at it... Yesterday I was taking about my mug but the question is: what do I put inside my mug? Would you be surprised if I were to tell you it is filled with tea? But a cuppa should not contain any crappy kind of tea. One of my long time favourite has to be the pyramid PG Tips whose history dates back to 1869 when a certain Arthur Brooke opened his first shop in Manchester. I do not think anyone would fall of their chair if I were to tell you that my new favourite tea is also mancunian. Mr Scruff, a DJ whom I have long respected (one of his sets at the Music Box in Manchester remains one of my most enjoyable post-Hacienda nightclub experience), had the good idea to start his own brand. And let me tell you objectively, it is the best English Breakfast tea ever (from Assam, India of course)! It also comes at a GBP 7.99 bargain in a bundle of four lovely packaged boxes (for 200 bags) or in even fancier tea caddies. You have to visit his store at MrScruff.com or you can buy his tea in a few selected Selfridges at the Manchester, Birmingham & London Stores.

Mr Scruff's tea website is here
Buy his tea at those place
Mr Scruff's great music is here

11 February 2008

Happy Monday



Now that everything has gone digital, kids probably do not know and understand the thrill that Mondays used to be. It has always been the day of new record releases in the UK and I remember queuing in front of the shops before they opened to grab those magical new and beautiful records. I still continue to buy my dose of vinyls through Piccadilly Records and it is always a pleasure to coincidentally receive my record boxes on Mondays. I am also double happy today as I also received the limited American Music Club tour CD 'Atwater Afternoon'. I am now off the computer as I have quite a few things to listen to and keep me busy!