I Like a Nice Cup of Tea ....

.... at any time of the day.  I always have a large mug of Earl Grey with my breakfast, one or two mugs of plain old 'monkey' tea during the afternoon, and another mug-ful in the course of the evening.  (I will confess at this juncture to having a couple of cups of coffee between 10.00 am and noon.)

P too is a keen tea drinker, and we have one (very small) kitchen cupboard dedicated solely to boxes of different tea bags (and a jar of coffee).

Most of the fruit tea-bags and the green tea-bags are purely for P's use, although occasionally I have been known to partake.  I do enjoy a Rooibos (Red Bush) tea sometimes, it's especially good for aiding digestion and being tannin free is good to drink late in the evening.

I find a mug of tea (I can't really be doing with a tea cup and saucer) wonderfully refreshing, and will drink it even on a blazing hot summers day.  It has wonderfully restorative powers and the concept of the British having a 'nice cup of tea' as the panacea for all ills is pretty much true.  Immediately after my father died in hospital one of the nursing staff offered to make us all a cup of tea, it was just what we all needed and although it didn't make a terrible time better, it did at least quench our thirsts and gave us all something to do whilst we gathered our thoughts.

What I really can't stomach, and indeed find quite an insult to a steaming hot cup of 'rosy lee', is iced tea - yukkity yuk yuk yuk!!  P always comes back from Switzerland with at least one bottle of this and then is amazed when I tell him I really couldn't drink it.

I don't want to offend anyone who thinks iced tea is wonderful, it's just that as far as I'm concerned nothing can beat a steaming hot mug of 'cha.'  And, yes, I have tried iced tea - bleugh!!

Comments

[Mary]

Iced "tea" in a bottle is terrible! I've tried a few and I agree with you. I like a good, hearty English Breakfast tea iced if it's *very* hot, but otherwise I'm with you - a hot cuppa is the best!

[Gill]

Iced tea...euuww, not nice! I'm a Yorkshire Tea girl myself, converted to it last year after years of drinking Sainsburys Red Lable or Tesco own brand,it's a proper cuppa!Have to have a coffee mid-morning though, I need that caffeine fix.