Let your PERSONALITY be your BEACON
Sia – ‘Some Act’
Sia’s Loose Leaf Tea Our last article, All You Need Is Less, was inspired by the Netflix documentary about the Minimalist Movement gathering a significant following across The Pond. We saw how people are being encouraged to declutter their lives and indeed their minds from compulsive consumerism. Such excesses they have realised, directed by Big […]
The Magic of Hongoram!
It was this time last year, only much darker and certainly colder. The Promoter was deep within ‘The Forest of Innovation’, where wood and trees look too alike to decipher, developing the pioneering and fun Personal-a-Teas concept. There was so much to learn! Countless ‘balls were being juggled through the air’. He had gathered a […]
Stranger Things: The Nostalgic Onslaught Continues
Nostalgia, noun 1. A yearning for the return of past circumstances, events, etc. 2. The evocation of this emotion in a movie, book, creative medium 3. Longing for home or family, homesickness Ref: Collins English Dictionary So, what is it about nostalgia? Why does it seem that we do indeed, yearn for past circumstances? […]
Ghostbusters: The Personal-a-Teas Analysis
Ghostbusters (2016) went on general release last Monday (11.07.16) through cinemas across the country. It is not a remake of the 1986 original, more like a loosely held ‘baton-carrying’ exercise. Firstly, one must give a nod of positivity to director Paul Feig for making the new ghost-fighting team all-female. A brave decision. Did it work? […]
Inspiration Comes from the Unlikeliest Places
Inspiration comes from the unlikeliest places. Last weekend, there was the local majorette competition and two of my daughters, Sophie and Jessica were part of the competing: Team Liberties. One aged 9 the other aged 6, respectively. We, the Promoter’s Family, were also due to travel up to Dundalk for the mother of all parties, […]
Just Like Dublin Bus… Three come along at once
The focus of this (mini-) part of the recent trilogy of articles about Two Pups Coffee on Francis Street seeks to provide budding entrepreneurs, who wish to get a foot-hold in the ever expanding coffeehouse market, some valuable advice from two proprietors, operating at the cold-face of a business start-up. For this, the Promoter interviewed […]
An Excellent Netflix Documentary
The ‘Personal-a-Teas’ concept at its core is a fun study. However, it has also provided this Promoter with the opportunity to bring to your attention a very serious predicament being forced upon innocent communities across the Mexican / US borderlands. Cartel Land is an excellent documentary from Matthew Heineman and The Documentary Group. It is […]
Loose Leaf Tea
“Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.” ― Lu Yu, Classic of Tea: Origins and Rituals Admittedly Loose Leaf Tea is the umbrella expression for the family of teas that are, well, not in […]
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