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Anyone for a cuppa? Tea lovers set to descend on Morpeth for popular festival Amelia Parrott
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t is that time of year again when hundreds of painstakingly handcrafted tea cosies, thousands of the world’s finest teapots and around tens of thousands of avid tea drinkers and collectors descend upon Morpeth for the annual Weird and Wonderful Novelty Teapot Exhibition and Tea Cosy Challenge. Now in its twenty-eighth year, the exhibition is thought to be the largest commercial collection of teapots in the country and attracts around 25,000 visitors to Morpeth over ten days. Exhibition coordinator, Kylie Richards, said tea drinking has undergone a bit of resurgence in recent years leading more people to indulge in a cuppa. “I think it’s a sort of therapy in a way – it’s relaxing,” she said. “You can sit down, take your time, have a nice cup of tea and of course the other part of it is just the quirkiness of the tea pots. “Some people want to be super traditional and they will have a beautiful floral English tea set and others are happy to drink tea out of a frog,” she joked. Around 270 tea cosies entered into the tea cosy challenge will also be on display with entries coming from as far away as Russia. Notable designs include a flower- topped jewellery box tea cosy, complete with wire crochet rings, fruit bowl, alien and animal shaped tea cosies and even a tea cosy likeness of former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard – knitted before the recent leadership
cctv for rutherford The familiar smear of spray paint may soon be a thing of the past at Rutherford shopping mall, after $80,000 in funding was secured to install CCTV in the precinct. It is estimated that eight cameras will be installed, which will complement Council’s fight against graffiti in the area. “We’ve been fighting for this for six years,” West Ward councillor Henry Meskauskas said.
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futsal kicks goals Campbell’s Store employee, Karla Featherstone, shows off designs from the Morpeth Weird and Wonderful Novelty Teapot Exhibition
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Exhibition and Tea Cosy Challenge runs from Thursday, August 22 to
Sunday, September 1 at Morpeth Gallery.
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