I drink tea. I drink it quite a lot. I never quite made the conversion to coffee. I enjoy a cup of coffee occasionally, but you can’t beat a good hot cup of tea. So, here are some tea facts for you:
Unpruned, a tea bush (actually a tree) can grow to 30 feet tall.
India is the worlds largest tea producer.
A wet teabag on an insect bite is said to relieve swelling and irritation.
Tea drinking has been shown to have cancer prevention properties, help fight cardiovascular disease, and regulate blood pressure.
The correct method for making tea (according to me): Warm a tea pot and put a spoonful of tea in for each cup, plus ‘one for the pot’. Pour on an appropriate amount of boiling (note boiling, not just hot, or even very hot, I mean boiling, meaning the kettle has just at that moment boiled, not a few minutes before). Put the lid on the pot, and a nice decorative tea cozy and let the tea steep for a few minutes. Finally, give the pot a quick stir and pour the tea into cups (fine china cups with handles you can’t fit your finger through on delicate saucers ideally). Add milk and sugar as desired.
Now, the quick method for making tea: Stick a teabag into a big mug that you can grip in a manly way, pour on boiling (yes it still has to be boiling) water, leave for a bit, stir for a bit, take out the teabag, add milk and sugar as desired.
If anybody in the UK wants to send me some McVities Digestives to enjoy with my tea I would be forever in their debt.
