Release the Beasts

I created Beasts of Brewdom five years ago.

The idea was that it was to be a place for out-there tea blogging, specifically by male tea bloggers. Yes,  it’s a Gentleman’s  Club.

Not in the sense of hugely expensive meals and saucy goings-on, but as a counter to the overt feminisation of tea and tea-drinkers. A place to write silly and have fun at our own expense. Oh, and at the expense of everyone else.

At many an afternoon tea, I find myself the only male, or if there are others there, they look apologetic. It’s a female domain, it seems. And the Internet is much the same.

SIDEBAR: Are you a young man looking for female company and capable of maths? If so, why aren’t you attending as many afternoon teas as you can? 99% female and often sadly focused on champagne rather than tea. Stop reading now, Sonny, you have a social diary to plan.

So, I created this space for three bloggers: Geoff, Ken and myself to be louder, more obnoxious, more testosterone fuelled than usual. I mean more than is usual for us, because we’re not exactly Charles Atlas types. more ‘read an atlas’ types.

I look back over 2014 and there’s a few sarcastic poems by me, one article by Geoff, none by Ken and a few by latecomer Johnny Teacup. That’s a bit rubbish, isn’t it?

So, should we let it quietly die? I SAY “NAY” in a strident, yet not equine, way.

I’ve just updated the background to a sort of gentlemanly wood panelled affair, after the Tea Trade crash that caused many of the photos to disappear.

And I’m issuing a challenge. AND BECAUSE WE ARE RUGGED, TOUGH MEN*, it’s a CHALLENGE of CHALLENGES.

I call on Geoffrey Norman, Ken Macbeth Knowles, Johnny Teacup and myself to take on this challenge. Further more, if other men are named in the challenge, I call on them to man up, not slink away like a gelded ferret.

So, Dear Readers, CHALLENGE US: Here’s how it works!

  1. Be the first to name one of the Beasts.
  2. Challenge that beast to write a post on Beast of Brewdom
  3. Select a title from this 92-page list of Mills and Boon Romance titles and assign it to them.
  4. Hassle them every day until they wrote a non-fiction BoB post with that title..

Men who are not authorised to post here can contact me on Facebook/Twitter and I’ll make it happen.

Add your challenge to the comments. I’ll be adding one straight away.
Buckle on your sword belt, Beasts, and let’s take this challenge down.


 

*More or less

7 Comments

  1. I call on GARY D. ROBSON to take up the challenge. The Mills and Boon Title I select is: “The Dream and The Dancer”

  2. Ah, well maybe you didn’t realize that I am actually a man. (Jackie, long for Jack) so I want to apply to become one of the beasts. I love this challenge, The Gentle Surgeon sounds like an intriguing title to me.
    And yes, that @lahikmajoe should darn well scribble a line on here again. Every “Beast” should. It’s about time. Glad you’re beating on your chest to get this going again.

  3. From TeaHappiness on Twitter: ohh Beasts! I challenge @lahikmajoe to write with ‘My Beautiful Heathen’
    And from Jo Johnson on Facebook: I challenge you Robert Godden to write with the title Sugar Island

  4. I nominate @lazyliteratus to write “Nurse Rita of the Recovery Room”. That should be fun. He might have to undertake some extensive research with nurses.
    raisingacup

  5. Robert how about you write on “The Captain’s Table”