One thing I didn't foresee was the headache!
But, I suppose once we had decided to give tea and coffee the elbow symptoms of Caffeine Withdrawal Syndrome were going to hit some time or other. Mrs Y and I are suffering in proportion to our use, I'm a real tea toper and still have a throbbing headache 48 hours after the last cuppa, whereas Karen is more abstemious and came out of it after 24. Having said that, cynics might think that sounds suspiciously like man-flu.
Tea and coffee were all part of the difficulty of defining what actually is "local" or "Kent". In the end we decided that, as we were doing this for just a week or so, we had to be purist about it. Even buying, as we do, tea and coffee from the estimable Kent & Sussex Tea & Coffee Company based at Pluckley didn't cut the mustard, the raw materials are from out of the county and had to go.
Thank the Lord that alongside Moor's and Pawley Farm juices, Shepherd Neame beer and Throwley, Tenterden and Biddenden wines aren't off limits.
After a few days limbering with the occasional all-Kent meal we are now fully local and in the next epistle I'll give the low-down on what form that is taking.
I can see a home brew of Nettle tea coming on!
ReplyDeleteHeart-warming stuff, Laurence - well done, on all our behalves (? behalfs).
ReplyDeleteThe next thing, apart from a feature by you in Kent Life, or some such, should be a page of panel ads in such a periodical on Kent food products, and where to buy them. I think perhaps exclude wines, as there are plenty of them, and the issue's food rather than drink.