Tea and Cakes

Righty-ho.

Tonight I’m busy getting my KTE package ready to send off, so here are a few places to go and visit.

I listen to a lot of podcasts on my commutes, and one of my favourites is Quirky Nomads. I have similar political and religious views to Sage (ie left leaning and athiest), and Quirky Nomads can always put me in a good mood no matter how frustrating I’ve found my day (sometimes I need a reminder that not everybody is small minded). Anyway, a while ago Andrew Page, an Irish blogger, posted up a booklet he’d found written by nuns here in the 1960’s on How to Choose a Wife. It sounded like something that Sage might like, and you can here the resulting episode here. Yay!
(Chris: This episode (I think it was this one) also featured a Good Name for a Band)

There’s also a new episode of Cast-On up, which is always fabulous news, and is especially welcome as Sticks and String is on a brief break between series. Brenda and David both have lovely calming voices which help make sitting in traffic enjoyable, plus both podcasts are about knitting, so it’s super soothing.

Of course, sometimes I feel like learning on the commute, and for that I turn to Matt’s Today in History. Snippets of history - short enough that I can keep focussed, but long enough to fit in loads of really interesting facts and explain situations.

Naturally, every now and then you need to listen to something that’ll make a person snort tea out of their nose with laughter. Quirky Nomads has done that (metaphorically speaking - laughing out loud on public transport is always a great way to draw attention to yourself), and for a combination of tea-snorting* and yarn pr0n there’s nothing better than Lime n Violet.

Happy listening.

Update: Check out the PG 300 trailer.

*I now have a vision of hardcore tea addicts furtively approaching dealers who hang around on street corners calling out things like “Earls, I got Earls” then brewing up and snorting tea out of delicate saucers.