Cutty-sark (witch) Cutty-sark (witch) "Cutty sark" is 18th-century Scots for "short chemise" or "short undergarment". Hyphenated, Cutty-sark was a nickname given to the witch Nannie Dee, a fictional character created by Robert Burns in his "Tam o' Shanter", after the garment she wore. The figurehead of the tea clipper "Cutty Sark" is named after the character and a brand of Scotch whisky is named in turn for the ship. "Cutty" or "cuttie" (the diminutive form of "cuttit", from Early Middle English "cutte", "kutte", "cute" "ugly") is "short" or "stumpy". "Sark" or "serk" (from Old English "serc"; Old Norse "serk") is a "shift",
Clipper tea 95 varieties of tea with up to two million tea bags made per day. Clipper is the UK market leader in Fairtrade and organic tea. It was an ethical business from the start. Mike Brehme said "I was in tea already, and I realised there was child labour involved and I thought, "That's no way to make a living."" "When we first started" Lorraine says, "Fairtrade was very much in its infancy". Whilst out shopping one day she wandered into the Body Shop and picked up a book about how to shop with a conscience. She didn't buy it, but