Pukman @ WinK: the community that time didn't forget

I like Earl Grey tea very much, and recently came across Earl Grey tea from the East India Company. The East India Company is famous for its trading, political, and military activities in the 17th to 19th centuries, but I hadn't realised it still existed, so I bought the tea with interest. I later found out that the makers of this tea are actually a company founded in 1987, with no link to the original East India Company. But that doesn't matter because the tea was great!

Most Earl Grey tea gets its distinctive flavour from bergamot oil. According to the company's research, however, that oil wasn't known in the early days of Earl Grey tea, and they suggest that neroli oil (oil from the flowers of the bitter orange tree) is likely to have been the original flavouring, so that's what they now use in an attempt to recreate the original tea.

It looks like the best place to find out about different kinds of Earl Grey tea is the Tending Towards Tea site.

I assumed the Terminator series was over, once the star became Governor of California, but I just found a trailer for a new Terminator movie. Christian Bale, who is also the star of the recent Batman movies, plays the main John Connor role. I'm not sure when the movie is due to come out, still less when it will come to Japan, but I'm looking forward to it!

I've just seen an interesting movie preview, a kind of spoof of 007 movies. The movie is called Get Smart, and it stars Anne Hathaway from the Princess Bride movies.

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