Tea drinking

[french frank]

When I moved on from my small village primary school, my mother chose an antique silver caddy spoon to give to our 'headmistress' (only two teachers, but the head was the fixture). Mother suggested I should write a poem to accompany it, which I still remember:

When you make a cup of tea
I hope you'll always think of me

But I don't know what eventually happened to the caddy spoon. Probably inherited by a second cousin's daughter. I just use an ordinary teaspoon, though I do have a caddy.

[vinteuil]

Timely for us as my wife rediscovered a half pound of loose tea we bought in Cornwall ...

https://tregothnan.co.uk/

... Cornish tea - to re-use that Johnsonian quote employed by FrenchFrank recently - "... like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

[Padraig]

When you make a cup of tea
I hope you'll always think of me

Great minds, f f.

A Drink of Water . . .

Where I have dipped to drink again, to be
Faithful to the admonishment on her cup,
Remember the Giver, fading off the lip.

Seamus Heaney

from Field Work 1979

[french frank]

Great minds, f f.

A Drink of Water . . .

Where I have dipped to drink again, to be
Faithful to the admonishment on her cup,
Remember the Giver, fading off the lip.

Seamus Heaney

from Field Work 1979

Heaney was somewhat older than me, Padraig, but I got in first with that thought - 1952!

[oddoneout]

How are you to know your fortune if you use a tea strainer?

Make sure it's got big enough holes?
I don't use a caddy spoon as I have a selection of teas which stay in the pretty blue bags they are purchased in, in a tin, and need the longer handle of a teaspoon to reach the contents.

[Padraig]

Heaney was somewhat older than me, Padraig, but I got in first with that thought - 1952!

And it's the thought that counts, f f

( You'ld have to get up early to catch you out!)

[anorak]

I've been a tea fanatic for many years. Strictly loose leaf. And NO milk (sorry for shouting). Right now I'm sipping a cup of Keemun Mao Feng which is probably my favourite. I take tea as seriously as some people take malt whisky, which I used to take seriously but had to give up for a variety of health reasons, so tea has become my main beverage. I have about a dozen different varieties on the go, for different times of the day, for different moods.

[smittims]

I've recently changed my second (and last) coffee of each day for a herbal tea (currently camomile and limeflower, but I do like fennel too). For some reason I found I wasn't really enjoying the second coffee. Later in the day I have Earl Grey or Empress Grey and later still PG Tips with M.O-H.

[gradus]

Anyone for Redbush?

[cloughie]

I've recently changed my second (and last) coffee of each day for a herbal tea (currently camomile and limeflower, but I do like fennel too). For some reason I found I wasn't really enjoying the second coffee. Later in the day I have Earl Grey or Empress Grey and later still PG Tips with M.O-H.

Drink mostly tea, preferably loose leaf Yorkshire Gold, coffee 11am - full caffinated, decaff after evening meal. Last drink before bed is Water or a Twinings Sleep!

[cria]

I fairly recently took to Birchall's Great Rift loose Kenya tea. Really, really good - & goodbye Waitsose etc for now.