We Brits are super into tea. We're very particular about it. It's so "British" isn't it? A cuppa with your breakfast, another with your mid-morning garibaldi. Tea and a Twix while you ruminate over a thorny issue.
But what if I told you that tea is even more Burmese to the Burmese than British to the Brits?
Here is a nice way you can support Burma while it goes through this period of struggle. Saving Myanmar has been set up by a group of photographers who have lived in Myanmar over the past 8 years. They are selling limited editions of 10 prints of a beautiful selection of photographs.
Below are some of my favourites, but click the button at the bottom to see them all.
I can hardly believe I'm writing this, but our container finally left Yangon on Wednesday.
This is the third time I've had this feeling in the last year. The first was...
We want to turn the spotlight on the people without whom Kalinko would not exist. The people who enable us to do what we do. The people whose support means we can support all of our makers.
It's time to tell our customers' stories.
Starting with Sarah.
It's about to become hundreds and hundreds of bins. Bins and trays and bowls. Oh, and placemats, and planters, umbrella stands and side tables. And did we say laundry bins? Piles of laundry bins for piles of laundry.
We're making as many as we can, because we know you're waiting for them. In the meantime...
This is Digby.
Digby is Margie's dog.
Margie really loves Digby.
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I’ve been thinking a lot this week about people’s tolerance for bad news. There’s only so much people can take.
Yesterday marked 80 days since the military coup. 80 days of bad news. 80 days of people waking up in Myanmar and remembering what has happened. Twelve weeks of our emails focussing on what’s going on.
And we aren’t going to stop, partly because this isn’t the kind of situation where you can seek out silver linings, and also because it’s so important that people stay on top of what’s going on. But we’re going to allow some space for good news too...
“There are all kinds of bombs going off today,” said a friend in Yangon yesterday morning, the city under no less strain than it was last week. Some of these ‘bombs’ are grenades, some are noise bombs, some are unidentified. Whatever they are, the atmosphere is tense.
For those who have missed it in the news, Burma’s military took control of the country in a coup on February 1st.
We have been sending out weekly updates on the situation as it unfolds. Here is this week's.
