Well, I did it. My version of a tea book which is based on the Tea with Ainee blog; extracted as best could from my blog to do with tea reviews submitted on steepster.com; tea places that I visited and partook in, and some favorite tea items that I have shared online are included in the book; some, not all tea items.

Strangers make fun of me or I imagine this; well the proof of this book is here; my hobby and it does not pay.

The book’s title is Teatime because I wanted it to be different than the blog’s title; similarly is the cover very different from the tea image used repeatedly on teawithainee. How’s that saying that says something to the effect: ‘Papa’s got a new bang’ which I take to mean a new face or some new ideas or ways to understanding…well, a New Year, a new face, yet an ending to a long time coming of age to do with tea. My computer crashed when this all began, losing quite a bit of material; then after starting the blog again, I tired of not having viewers and I deleted the blog and restarted it many times; I stayed the course back in 2016 until 2024 when I posted the last post of a ‘teacup puzzle’ that I had acquired from having attended a book sale at the Franklin Free Public Library; again thank you to the many libraries who may know of my tea blog turned into a desire for a tea book.

Viewing the back cover

My old publishers at Xlibris helped me to accomplish this dream and I must thank them as well. I am only sorry that I never had readers and I may never have readers since the Internet is quite vast and this littlest blog like mine can easily get lost from not having anything of interest to share; lacking pizazz or such.

I am happy to put this behind me. Where we reside when out walking there's this residential area named Tea Party Drive, they probably have bloggers/vloggers as well so I am sharing this rock image here

---------------------------------Thank you!