Tea O'Mania

Bags or Leaves?

Our High Streets are being overrun - well I should say “have been”- with continental / US style “coffee shops”. I love them and I don’t really care if they originated in the States or europe. They have made our High Streets more vibrant. A few years ago I wouldn’t have sat outside and people watched - the opportunity just wasn’t there. Of course when visiting the continent there were, and still are, a multitude of places to sit and More

My Tea Destiny

I can remember the very first time I tried my first cup of ‘tea’. Actually, that’s a lie; I can’t remember where I was specifically—or how old I was, exactly—but I can remember how it made me feel. Writing this down is bringing it all back!

It was the week after I had finally agreed to try other kinds of margarine which were not St. Ivel Gold. This was a big deal. From birth I had refused any other margarine More

Make Proper Tea

Just off the top of my head I can think of several things which aren’t a criminal offence, but really need to be: one of them is people who say “At the end of the day” and “Not being funny or anything,” a lot—or even more than once every day, which is plenty enough to offend dozens of normal people—and the other has to be people who delight in making weak, pathetic, horrifyingly bad tea. Tea is a hallowed thing More

A Tea Break

So some people have called me obsessive but I don’t necessarily think that is fair, really I just like tea. Any kind of tea. Breakfast tea for the morning, PGTips for the rest of the day and a nice cuppa herbal to put me to be. Lovely. As you may have guessed this blog is really all about tea, me talking about how great tea is, and sometimes my friends talking about how great tea is. So next time you need a tea break then have no fear because we will be here to fill a cup.