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You may wish to peruse my collection of recorded classes or glance at a new one. To do so visit my website here: paulcouchman.co.uk And enjoy these sweet-smelling narcissi. My favourite flower. Yours too?

May I invite you to my historic kitchen for a spot of tea? Happening on June 26th and I'd be HONOURED if you attended. Info below. Can you make it? eventbrite.co.uk/e/taking-tea-o…

Who needs to go abroad for a holiday? Not me. The beauty of Mousehole lies before me. Would you like to visit?

The simplicity of the early nineteenth-century staircase inside the Egyptian House in Penzance. Does it soothe you too?

I present to you the simple delights of a tea garden at the Yorkshire Stingo Tavern as seen in the late eighteenth century. A rural inn on the Marylebone Road. Do attend before the late 1960s as it will be demolished to make way for a motorway bypass near Paddington Station.

A good story? True? The first cup of tea made in England was drank where Buckingham Palace now stands. The Earl of Arlington imported the first pound of tea for 60 shillings in the year of the great plague. Gaze upon Arlington House, replaced by Buckingham Palace.

I wish to travel to Bristol in 1805. To visit Issac James of 10 Wine Street. He sells tea. 'You can't buy better than of me, Both Black and Green, in printed papers, Most excellent against the vapours' Join me? p.s. My tea class starts soon: eventbrite.co.uk/e/taking-tea-o…

Do you find yourself DRAWN to servants' places in National Trust properties? I obsess over tiny details and think about how I could incorporate into my own home. Behold delightful brown/black/white in Saltram's kitchen nr Plymouth. Do you share my enthusiasm for the artisan?

Crime I could cope with...

Ok. I may have gone a bit overboard when I planted sweet Williams this year, but what a delightful abundance to have. Are you a sweet William lover too?

Paul Couchman - Regency Cook I do. I I find the utilitarian simplicity and superb craftsmanship of the servants quarters far superior to the bloated gaudiness of their bosses

I wish to retire to Saltram Castle. A room where visitors in the early 1770s may have paused during their perambulations round the garden and sipped on tea. Would you join me?

Every week I sit at my desk and pen a few words on history and food. You may like them sent to your abode, by horse & carriage (or by more modern means). To do so please visit my website: paulcouchman.co.uk and scroll down. Regular reader already? Do let me know.

I feel like partaking of afternoon tea at the White Conduit in Islington, London. 1786. Hot loaves and butter every day, milk directly from the cows AND a seven foot high fence to prevent 'being in the least incommoded from the people in the fields'. Sounds perfect. Agree?

Imagine. You are in a tea-shop and you are given a bad cup of tea. I have some words from a Tea Treatise from 1785 for you to use to describe it. I particular like 'odd smell' and 'flaggy'. What are your favourites?

Tea cures all? "What morbid evils prey'd on Sylvia's frame, Till the young Doctor with his nostrums came, T'was he that caused & he must cure her grief And his sweet Cordial soon insured relief" From the British Museum Collection. Adore? p.s. Look out for the strange squirrel.

What could be better than a silver cow from which to put your milk into your tea? A George III example made by cow-jug specialist John Schuppe can be yours for a ridiculous sum of money. I'm tempted. Are you?

Paul Couchman - Regency Cook A friend of my dad's was a dairy farmer and stalwart of the Jersey cattle association. On his 70th birthday they gave him a silver cow creamer. He was very touched, but, being a very down to earth bloke he said he was puzzled as to why the milk came out of the wrong end.

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