In winter I get up at night

[sovay]

It is barely even thinking about dawn outside: the sky is a kind of drowned jewel-blue through the trees. Tomorrow will be the solstice.

I do not understand what the hell misguided upgrades Livejournal has decided to inflict on my comments pages—although it renders individual posts of mine essentially unreadable, which will not switch me to Dreamwidth, it will take me out of online interaction entirely if someone doesn't fix it—but I'll have to deal with it when I get back. I'll be out of internet ambit for most of the day: I am meeting rushthatspeaks in New York City in the early afternoon, after which we hope to interface with handful_ofdust in time for tonight's reading at KGB Bar. There's no point in bringing my computer on a day trip, so I'll be carrying a computer bag full of books. What else is technology for?

(My current music is no longer visible on my main journal! Seriously, what does that serve?)

Finish tea, catch a bus. Happy Hanukkah!

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Happy Hanukkah! Safe travels, and I hope you have a lovely, lovely time in NYC. That reading sounds brilliant--if I lived in the city, I'd definitely be going.

I don't like this new comment page thing, either. I hope it doesn't drive you from online interaction, cos I'd miss your posts rather a lot. I've got an account on DW, but amn't much good at keeping up with both, and most of my friends are still here on LJ so I've stayed here.

Finish tea...

At first I thought you'd written "Finnish tea", and I was going to ask what was in Finnish tea and if it was easily found in your part of the world.

[sovay]

At first I thought you'd written "Finnish tea", and I was going to ask what was in Finnish tea and if it was easily found in your part of the world.

I have no idea what's in Finnish tea. Lingonberries? Somebody on my friendlist must know.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what's in Finnish tea. Lingonberries?

I googled "Finnish tea", and turned up on the one hand, a recipe (such as it was) for tea with sugar and Koskenkorva vodka and, on the other hand, a blog post about Nordqvist Uskollinen Ystävä (Faithful Friend), which is, alas*, black tea with peach, orange, and pineapple.

A pity, really--I was rather hoping to discover a fascinating blend with smoked pine needles and juniper twigs, or something like that.

I've seen tea with lingonberries in Newfoundland, where they call them partridgeberries.** And, to get a little closer to Finland, in Stockholm they make a wonderful tea called Söderblandning, which has marigolds and other things. I find myself wishing it were non-caffeinated, because I'd be curious to hear what you would think of it.

*For the sake of your drinking it, I mean. The caffeine wouldn't be a problem for me, although it sounds a bit over-sweet for my tastes.
**A lot of Scandinavian berries seem too grow there--cloudberries are called bakeapples.