Cutty Sark wind. The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns's 1791 poem "Tam o' Shanter". The ship's figurehead, the original of which has been attributed to carver Fredrick Hellyer of Blackwall, is a stark white carving of a bare-breasted Nannie Dee with long black hair holding a grey horse's tail in her hand. In the poem she wore a linen (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was "cutty", or in other words far too short. The erotic sight of her dancing
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