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My wife turned me loose at the Buck Factory Clearance sale.
Well, within reason anyway.
So I picked up a few pieces (see thread in Buck Knives forum).
But of those I got, the "Father's Day" piece was the Buck Paradigm Avid. At half price.
It's not a Sebenza, but it's a fine piece of hardware, a quality addition to the stable.
And that would have been enough.
But my wife finally pulled a surprise on me that I didn't see coming at all.
She ordered an actual English-and-made-in-England Brown Betty teapot, a personalized tea chest, gourmet tea, and a honey pot.
This teapot will replace the Brown Betty that I bought some twenty years ago at a Gloria Jean's in Las Vegas, and whose glaze has finally begun to fail, resulting in a tiny amount of leakage from the bottom. Darn thing would probably be good for another ten years if I hadn't put it in the microwave a couple of times before I understood that earthenware teapot in microwave = BAD JUJU!
Tea is one of those habits I picked up during my years in England, and the proper celebration of tea with a proper teapot, actual boiling water, and a fine tea is now a part of "the me I like to be." It's one of those reasons that, irrational as it may seem, I believe Britain is worth saving.
Wife evidently knows part of me better than I thought.
Well, within reason anyway.
So I picked up a few pieces (see thread in Buck Knives forum).
But of those I got, the "Father's Day" piece was the Buck Paradigm Avid. At half price.
It's not a Sebenza, but it's a fine piece of hardware, a quality addition to the stable.
And that would have been enough.
But my wife finally pulled a surprise on me that I didn't see coming at all.
She ordered an actual English-and-made-in-England Brown Betty teapot, a personalized tea chest, gourmet tea, and a honey pot.
This teapot will replace the Brown Betty that I bought some twenty years ago at a Gloria Jean's in Las Vegas, and whose glaze has finally begun to fail, resulting in a tiny amount of leakage from the bottom. Darn thing would probably be good for another ten years if I hadn't put it in the microwave a couple of times before I understood that earthenware teapot in microwave = BAD JUJU!
Tea is one of those habits I picked up during my years in England, and the proper celebration of tea with a proper teapot, actual boiling water, and a fine tea is now a part of "the me I like to be." It's one of those reasons that, irrational as it may seem, I believe Britain is worth saving.
Wife evidently knows part of me better than I thought.
