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  • . Commented on Gamini Salgado

    Gamini's position of Asst. Superintendent of Yoxford in 1947 and 1948, as shown above, could not be correct as Yoxford only had Superintendents till it was amalgamated with Holyrood as a division c.1970 and had its first Asst. Superintendent.

    August 21,2022 10:39pm

  • . Commented on Ceylon Tea: Top 8 Benefits + Side Effects + How To Make

    Been drinking decaffeinated Ceylon tea for just over a week and my resting heart rate is up by 5 beats per min... Cannot be because of caffeine!

    August 19,2022 07:24pm

  • . Commented on Dick Wilson

    The planter's name DICK WILSON above should read Richard (Dick) Reid-Wilson.

    August 17,2022 08:59pm

  • . Commented on Humbaswalana

    My mother was born in his estate in 1928 and her birth was announced by the Superindentant of the estate. Anybody has any records??

    August 15,2022 09:26pm

  • . Commented on Inorganic fertiliser, agrochemicals ban and fallacies of organic agriculture

    A very Sri Lankan type of article replete with obsolete scientific advocacy. The developed world (EU, USA, UK etc.) are now contradicting much of the scientific and economic merits of continuous inorganic fertiliser applications. Sri Lanka should follow the advice of such eminent global scientific research and advisory agencies such as Rothampstead Research in the UK who have been researching on inorganic fertiliser applications for over century. The new findings on "legacy" fertiliser as cumulative excess components used over decades in agricultural fiends and plantations, conclusively prove that anywhere such continuous applications have been done can skip applying anymore fertiliser between 5 to 16 years. This is because the legacy fertiliser in the soil is more than enough to supply the next few years of plant growth without adding any more. This proves that whoever took the decision to cease anymore imports of inorganic fertiliser for the forseeable future was justified in such decisions. The doom and gloom agents in Sri Lanka either do not know what is happening at the cutting edge of plant nutrient science or are deliberately covering up these facts as beneficieries of fertiliser importers. What a waste of billions of Forex from Sri Lanka which could have been saved for other expenses! C.f.i. The legacy effect of synthetic N fertiliser; https://bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ejss.13238; or https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/articles/kicking-habit-fertilisers

    August 10,2022 03:25pm

  • . Commented on Sandringham

    Vaithilingam Pillai from Madurai city of Madras presidency was working as an Apothecary in Sandringham tea estate in Talawakella, Nuwaraeliya during latter part of 19th Century. He used to travel by riding a horse.

    August 07,2022 10:27pm

  • . Commented on Listing of the Blackett, Wilson & Scott Family Planting History in Ceylon

    ANY INFORMATION REGARDING THE TINDALL FAMILY?

    July 21,2022 05:02am

  • . Commented on Tea Tasting Tales

    There were some legendry Tea Tasters of Sri Lanka, I am from Pakistan, Lucky to meet them back in 1980s

    July 20,2022 08:44am

  • . Commented on Ken Murray - Celebrating a Legend

    My parents knew his family very well indeed as my Father worked fairly near his which was in the Kegalle area in Ambanpiitya in the late 1930/s at a property owned by Willie Hermon in the late 1930's. I still have the telegram his Mother ,Aunty Eileen sent to my Mother after the birth of my sister in 1940. followed soon after by Ken. When they met.Ken and his parents stayed overnight so Ken in his cot and my sister Wendy in hers were placed together and Aunty Aileen looking at them lying peacefullY remarked."Mabel ",Just think, one day when they are grown they may even get married"?

    July 17,2022 09:05pm

  • . Commented on Listing of the Blackett, Wilson & Scott Family Planting History in Ceylon

    How very interesting. I am related to both the Blackett, and Scott families. And also to the George Benzie mentioned.

    July 05,2022 02:58pm

  • . Commented on C.H. Young

    C H Young was my father's (Malcolm Kevin Furlong) maternal grandfather. Young was killed by lightening whilst riding his horse on Udabage Estate on 12 March 1905 and is buried in St. Barnabas Church, Avisawella. He fathered 3 children, the youngest being my grandmother Alice Young who was born 7 months after his death. If anyone out there has any more information on my great-grandfather C H Young please make contact. I believe his first name was Charles but unsure about his middle name. Many thanks, Gina Francis (nee Furlong), Australia.

    June 24,2022 10:21pm

  • . Commented on Plans for statue to honour north-east father of Sri Lankan tea industry

    I am the Sculptor of this Bronze. Sarath Chandrajeewa, 18/B, Dummaladeniya west, Wennappuwa, 61170, Sri Lanka.

    June 23,2022 06:29am

  • . Commented on My Brother Travice

    1959, I was 12 years old at home in Badulla when Travis turned up there and introduced himself to my parents. His parents were family friends of my Grandmother. She used to always talk of Travis' father, known to them as Junior and his escapades of taking a small bottle of the good old stuff inside the violin case for his music lessons.

    June 11,2022 08:26am

  • . Commented on MALGOLLA TO MYSORE ‘WITHOUT REGRETS’

    Thank you so much for this! Love reading about the forgotten elements of Sri Lanka. Specially those connected to horses.

    June 09,2022 08:18am

  • . Commented on J D S Wickremesooriya & Co

    The "person making a speech" is Kenneth Morford, an estate Superintendent in the Dimbulla district in the mid nineteen hundreds and and one very active in planting associations/organisations.

    June 05,2022 11:26pm

  • . Commented on Tea Tasting Tales

    Tony was married to a cousin of mine but I don't think I knew him, as such, until we met when I was an estate manager and he a director of GS&Co when I would drop in to see him when I was in Colombo.

    June 05,2022 11:05pm

  • . Commented on Book Review – Wisdom in the Leaf – A Generation of tea inspired knowledge

    An excellent book in both information and compilation. The authors are to be complimented on both the quality of the information as well as it's expression and Dilmah for making it possible.

    June 05,2022 03:41am

  • . Commented on Tea Tasting Tales

    Tony Peiris was my Chairman at GS&Co .when I had to take 3 months off asa result of an ACL tear in my knee plying Rugger fro Dimbulla ,He gave me a desk in the Tea Department and trained me as a Tea Taster .The knowledhe I gained whils there subsequently served me very well ,and resulted in me being appointed Factory manger at Ury Group Passara and also Tea Manufacturing advisor to Nahavilla Estates company as well as being tasked to go to Estates with Manufacturing Problems to advise and report back toTony

    June 04,2022 05:22am

  • . Commented on Tea Tasting Tales

    Memories are triggered when a familiar name props up in an article. I remember the writer and some persons he mentions as great guys who helped me in my time at GS and H&C later.

    June 03,2022 06:37am

  • . Commented on Maithri Liyanage

    I always had a high regard for your father and I knew you as a good tea planter..

    June 01,2022 05:01am