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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-12-21 07:01 am

In winter I get up at night

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 [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks in New York City in the early afternoon, after which we hope to interface with [livejournal.com profile] 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!

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-12-23 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
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.