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Friday January 30, 2009

Tea from Cornwall ?

On the BBC "One Show" last night Carol Thatcher toured a Tea plantation in Cornwall. It turns out the area where it is is exactly the conditions the tea shrub likes. The main problem is the time it takes for the shrub to grow to a decent size. The craziest part of this story is they export some of their crop to China

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R.I.P John Martyn

It was announced yesterday that John Martyn had died aged sixty. His best music was the work he did with his wife at the time, Beverley who has a fantastic voice. Those two albums are the "Road to Ruin" and "Stormbringer". He kept touring and producing albums after he split up with Beverley and some of the solo stuff is pretty good.

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