we met some very lovely teapigs fans on Sunday at the tea party - Alex, Karen and Kit. As well as helping us raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care, they drank as much tea as they could, took some really good photos (Karen), and then Alex wrote about us on his blog which we think is pretty cool and very current (and not just because he's written nice things about us either!)...

go on, take a look here:

meet Alex!

So we had a lovely tea party at Whole Foods Market on Sunday - many thanks to those of you who came along, was great to meet you! We manged to raise £190 for ">Marie Curie cancer care as part of their Blooming Great Tea Party appeal - hooray!

We also sold lots of packs of teapigs summer flowers - and 50p of every pack sold goes to Marie Curie too. We'll let you know how much we've raised in total when the campaign ends on 12th July.

Check out the photos of the tea party (and scrummy Whole Foods Market cakes) here

We're having a tea party! On Sunday 28th June at Whole Foods Market in support of the Marie Curie Cancer Care's Blooming Great Tea Party appeal...

Please come and join us for a cup of your favorite teapigs tea and cake. ALL proceeds go to helping Marie Curie Cancer nurses provide more free care to people and families across the UK affected by a terminal illness - how can you resist?!

Details:
Sunday 28th June 2009
10am to 2.30pm
1st floor cafe, Whole Foods Market, Kensington High Street
Tickets £5 - Includes a cup of teapigs and a scrummy Wholefoods cake. Available in-store.

Sorry to be doom merchant but did you know that a world without bees would be a world without humans? Why? They are the planet's ultimate pollinators- causing flowers to produce seeds, nuts, fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately for a number of reasons the world bee population is in decline. I was fortunate to listen to a fascinating talk by Gerald Cooper, a beekeper, at last year's howies Do Lectures and recomend you do the same by clicking here. Some great advice he gave to help bees is to let your lawn grow wild. Instead of mowing, leave a portion (or all) to grow into meadow and stop using pesticides and fungicides. I've done that (it's also a great excuse to be lazy and not mow the lawn at this time of year) and here's the result. A happy bee in clover.And for those of you with a sweet tooth, honey is a great sweetner for tea. Especially summer flowers. (posted by Nick)

bee on my new meadow

It's men's health week and if we didn't need any more encouragement to drink tea click here for some more reasons to be cheerful. If you're not male and reading this please pass on to someone who is. (posted by a healthy feeling Nick)

good effort but not sure if the cigarette is part of the advice?

Lou and I had a great day-of-fun (!) on Friday that started with a trip to the Whole Foods Market on Kensington High Street to play around with the first ever teapigs window display... hooray! can you tell we're excited?

So if you find yourselves in the general vicinity go and take a look in the window. You'll even get to see a picture of Lou picking tea in China - no small thing since she hates having her picture taken or being in the public eye generally (which I guess is why her sun hat hides her face in the China pic). Hopefully she won't hate me for posting this photo... our very own tea taster (face and all) in the teapigs window at Whole Foods Market.

Click here to see more pics from our day of fun!

Thanks to all of you who visited us at last weekend's Hatton Garden Festival. We had a few little gems to sell ourselves, the jasmine pearls proved popular. Diamond geezers. (posted by Nick)

'ello sunshine

Time to dust off the old bike in the shed and get pedalling. National Bike Week starts Saturday 13th June. Click this link to find out all about it. As they say on the site get on your bike and "get more out of life". Not quite sure whether they are endorsing the World Naked Bike Ride but I can see what they may mean. (posted by Nick)

Nick is in Hull today, I am thinking a visit to the latest teapigs stockist in Ibiza might be required...

If you are on hols this summer and happen to be in Ibiza pop into bar passion for a brew.
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Don't know if you've heard of teatunes before... it's a lovely wesbite set up by Ben and Dan to provide discussions and news on two of life's greatest things - music and tea.

This month they've put together a competition where you could win some teapigs teas (which we think is the bestest part) but also the album from The Divine Comedy's spin-off project - The Duckworth Lewis Method - 2 weeks ahead of it's release... Now, we're not quite as cool as Ben and Dan so hadn't heard of them before but we think they sound rather good - I think they sound a bit like the Beatles and Nicole (who is much more clued up on this kind of thing) reckons they sound a bit like the Left Banke. Click here to enter.