Today's tea was a gushu pu'er from Zheng Jia Liang Zi, Yiwu. Its wild character…

Today's tea was a gushu pu'er from Zheng Jia Liang Zi, Yiwu. Its wild character originating from old tea trees growing in mixed forests, the taste slowly rounding out throughout the many steeps. It's the first time brewing from this 100g mini-cake I got from Zürich back in May this year. All while listening to records – the new Hermanos Gutiérrez album, BADBADNOTGOOD's III, and coming back to my old records with Poppy Ackroyd's Escapement and Hidden Orchestra's Archipelago. At the same time, I'm reading Helen Oyeyemi's Peaces, recently acquired at one of my new favourite bookstore in Berlin, Golda Books and more. V's sewing machine whirring behind me, she asked how I like the book, and 80-odd pages in, I can still only describe it as weird. After looking up the author and book on Wikipedia, the article pointing out that its critical reception was posivitely weird. We went back to the bookstore today, and couldn't help ourselves getting another couple of books. They have one shelf…