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@rjpress @BotleyMills Thanks Richard!

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✨ TEA NEWS ✨

We’re moving… online!

Our Lymington lease is wrapping up, so we’re packing up the wagon and heading to online pastures in a workshop at the gorgeous @BotleyMills

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We’re here in Lymington until July 14th with…

🫖 Teaware discounts!
🫖 Basement sale!
🫖 Reduced paper goods!
🫖 Tea shop fixtures & fittings!

🎺 🎺 🎺

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Form an orderly queue, Earl Grey is back!

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Our favourite time of year.

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Have you seen any pigs in the New Forest yet? 🐷 Did you know that around 600 pigs and piglets get released on to the forest each autumn for pannage season?! https://t.co/IzFISKvKDV

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Good morning, New Forest!

A beautiful day for #Lymington market 🍁 We’re here enjoying the autumn sun from 11am - 4pm

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*COVID UPDATE*

Tea lovers, it finally found me! The shop will be closed for the next few days while I rest up, and aim to be back on Tuesday Sept 13th.

I’m on the honey and lemon - any other suggestions?

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@parcelforce Hi Val! Blimey! I rang ParcelForce back in Sept about these invoices that kept turning up and was advised I had nothing to pay - thought I’d double check as they kept arriving. Glad I asked!

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@parcelforce Hi! We’ve been receiving the attached in the mail regularly for the last few months. Certain they’re a scam so thought it best to flag them up. Could you confirm if this is the case? Cheers!

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Tomorrow! Tomorrow!

The tea shop is BACK and ready to keep you in good tea

Now open Weds-Sat from 11-4

See you in the morning, Lymington!

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Listen up you lot! We’re back and it’s brilliant. Please PLEASE follow the rules, or I will transform into Bernard Black and drink wine in the corner all day. Thank you.

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@hotcook1965 @The_Blue_Cross Thanks so much Sandy. He came from The Blue Cross! They’re so brilliant x

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@OliversSherbs Same!! Yes. I was thinking of writing down things I wish I’d said in the past and practice them so they’re easier to find in the moment.

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Donate! Share! Give what you are able and shine a light for @ReclaimTS

https://t.co/18pvy0aipg

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Shopkeepers, meet & greeters, sales assistants, servers, and any women in public-facing roles endure this on the regular.

We need change.

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The man who sat there doing nothing is, to me, just as bad as the harasser.

Don’t be that guy.

Read, learn. Fellas, I guarantee you will start to see the world as women do. And then you can be part of the solution.

Women are doing all we can. We need you to step up.

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Yesterday over on the TGT Instagram I shared some stories about my experiences with harassment. I’ve been asked if I could put these stories and resources somewhere more permanent 👍

In summary, what I talked about was:

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I also shared a story about when I was waiting for a train and man began harassing me. There was another man sat right there next to us. I was literally looking to him for help, and he just... sat there. Refusing to meet my eye.

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