Word game: Last letters link

[jil]

Do you also know the correct

dosage

for the medicinal teas?

[pommystuart]

Isn't it

generally

1 spoon per person and one for the pot?

[leelaht]

What size spoon? If too strong (ie it puts hair on your chest) you might turn into a

lycanthrope!

[Randi]

perish

the thought!

[pommystuart]

Just the thought of meeting a lycanthrope let alone turning into one sends a

shiver

down my spine.

[leelaht]

Ergo

use a smaller spoon

[jil]

That's

good

advice

[leelaht]

Odso!

why didn't I think of it earlier... you could use a bigger pot!

[pommystuart]

That is not

so

bad considering obso is obsolete terminology.

[jil]

I think we need a tea

sommelier

[Randi]

A tea sommelier sounds very

erudite

[pommystuart]

An erudite tea sommelier to

test

the tea sounds like a great idea.

[leelaht]

I hope the erudite tea sommelier decides to

stay

a while.

[Randi]

Unfortunately, the erudite tea sommelier decided to go to the Middle East to investigate whether the worshipers of the Mesopotamian goddess

Aya

had any tea-drinking rituals.

[pommystuart]

I wonder if we would find Aye sipping tea and rejoicing under a

Yaxche

tree?

[Randi]

Probably not since Aya's homeland is in the eastern

hemisphere

and the yaxche is native to the western hemisphere.

[leelaht]

International Tea Day is observed annually on May 21, according to the United Nations. The concerning

resolution

was adopted on December 21, 2019,

[pommystuart]

Probably not since Aya's homeland is in the eastern

hemisphere

and the yaxche is native to the western hemisphere.

touché

[Randi]

https://www.un.org/en/observances/tea-day
The tea industry is a main source of income and export revenues for some of the poorest countries and, as a labour-intensive sector, provides jobs, especially in remote and economically disadvantaged areas. Tea can play a significant role in rural development, poverty reduction and food security in developing countries, being

one

of the most important cash crops.

[leelaht]

Here is why we need an erudite tea sommelier...

A tea plant will grow into a tree of up to 16 m (52 ft) if left undisturbed, but cultivated plants are generally pruned to waist height for ease of plucking. The short plants bear more

new

shoots which provide

new

and tender leaves and increase the quality of the tea. Only the top 2.5–5 centimetres (1–2 in) of the mature plant are picked. These buds and leaves are called 'flushes'. A plant will grow a

new

flush every 7 to 15 days during the growing season. Leaves that are slow in development tend to produce better-flavoured teas. Several teas are available from specified flushes; for example, Darjeeling tea is available as first flush (at a premium price), second flush, monsoon and autumn. Assam second flush or "tippy" tea is considered superior to first flush, because of the gold tips that appear on the leaves.