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Years ago, an otherwise very pleasant Englishman said to me, "You'll never make a proper wife because you don't know how to make a proper cup of tea." I thought, what an odd thing to say to someone you've just met.
Now that I DO know how to make a proper cup of tea, I get it. There may be dishes in my sink, and the laundry is reaching the ceiling but there is a proper cup of tea in my hands. I am going to make someone a proper wife someday!
So, what small, insignificant achievement are you proud of?
Well, I'm still hopeful that they'll put "He kept his lawn neatly trimmed." on my headstone.
[Truth be told, I don't expect that there'll be any headstone, and I occasionally chide (?) my neighbours on shaming me into mowing my lawn. Otoh I do point out to my wife the times when I get my driveway cleared before my across-the-street neighbour does hers.]
Insignificant?? O-nay eh-way!! Proud of?? Probably not.
I think most others would consider my achievements [cough, hack, cough] with the banjo pretty insignificant, but to me they're no mean feat.
Edited by - Owen on 01/26/2025 06:34:33
I had a tea coach or tea teacher. We had an office assistant who had recently moved from Ireland to Kansas for great job her husband got in Wichita. She preferred not to drink her tea alone, but punctually she did everyday at 11:00 am. She always asked if I would join her. By eleven I mostly likely had already knocked off a pot of coffee, and would head for lunch at 11:30. She taught all the proper manner of making and drinking “civilized” tea. Her words not mine. She would buy Twinings bags, for the office, but at home they used loose leaf in the teapot. Brad
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Originally posted by AndrewDAnd don't forget "Pot to kettle, not kettle to pot".
Heaven forfend!
Well, given that I'm the product of two US Floridians, I was raised on sweet tea, and still brew it myself, especially in the summer. Not iced tea or hot tea. So to me it's a bit of a foreign world. I can't remember the last time I had a cup of hot tea, but I wouldn't be averse to it in the proper setting.
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Originally posted by chuckv97Oh yeah, tea cup & saucer were the rule for my Ma &Pa. An uncle used to pour some in his saucer, blow on it, and drink it with loud slurps,,, ugh
That was the refined way of doing it when tea was an expensive luxury in the 18th C. Which is why early saucers were deep, more like bowls. Of course when tea became cheap it was derided by the upper classes as being common.
Oh, what I want is a proper cup of coffee, made from a proper copper coffee pot.
I might be off my jot, But I wanna proper cup of coffee from a copper coffee pot.
Iron coffee pots, tin coffee pots, they're no good to me!
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot,
I'll have a cuppa tea.
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Originally posted by rinembI had a tea coach or tea teacher. We had an office assistant who had recently moved from Ireland to Kansas for great job her husband got in Wichita. She preferred not to drink her tea alone, but punctually she did everyday at 11:00 am. She always asked if I would join her. By eleven I mostly likely had already knocked off a pot of coffee, and would head for lunch at 11:30. She taught all the proper manner of making and drinking “civilized” tea. Her words not mine. She would buy Twinings but mostly Barry's bags, for the office, but at home they used loose leaf in the teapot. Brad
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Originally posted by manderYears ago, an otherwise very pleasant Englishman said to me, "You'll never make a proper wife because you don't know how to make a proper cup of tea." I thought, what an odd thing to say to someone you've just met.
Now that I DO know how to make a proper cup of tea, I get it. There may be dishes in my sink, and the laundry is reaching the ceiling but there is a proper cup of tea in my hands. I am going to make someone a proper wife someday!
So, what small, insignificant achievement are you proud of?
I can FIX stuff, most stuff, some of the time.
And sometimes, it's a small thing, but it beats tossing stuff into landfills.
There's a place west of here, where the municipality piled their city's waste into a gigantic hill, sodded it over, built a ski slope. The locals call it Mount Trashmore, but the adverts call it something like Olympia.
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Originally posted by BanjoLinkIt ain't proper unless it has been saucered and blowed. If you don't know what I am referring to then you just ain't educated on tea ....... especially in New England where most cup plates were made in glass factories there. Anybody here know what a cup plate is and what they were for?
I thought that in New England they preferred their tea bobbing around in the Atlantic??
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Originally posted by TexasbanjoI haven't drank hot tea in years. Used to all the time. Got away from it for some reason.
Give me a good, hot cup of coffee anytime, no cream, no weird stuff, just coffee with a bit of sugar to take away the bitter taste.
You and I have similar tastes, thats exactly how I take my coffee.
I haven't had a cup of tea in years, I got so sick of 'Nato tea' (white with sugar) served en masse at every opportunity in the Army, that i never had another 'cuppa' since I left
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