Are you fussy about your tea?
(or coffee).
First, what do you call your cup of tea? Just tea? Or are you like my mum, ‘Ooooh I need a cuppa,’ as she sits down after a trip to town.
Are you more northern, and need a ‘brew’ to perk you up for the rest of the day?
‘I can’t have anything sweet,’ a friend told me yesterday, ‘else I’ll need a brew with it.’
A brew, I mused, a brew. How homely does that sound!
I call my tea just plain tea. I am not from the south like my mum, because I grew up in another country. I am not from the north, I just live here. My accent is different; I say ‘dinner’ instead of ‘tea’ and ‘lunch’ instead of ‘dinner’. So I just have plain old tea.
My husband makes rubbish tea. Sometimes when he makes me tea I have to wait for him to disappear so I can pour it down the sink and make a fresh one.
Tea bag in, one teaspoon of sugar. Pour boiling water on top, let sit for a good 3-5 minutes to ‘brew’ (maybe Northerners call it ‘brew’ because like their tea strong?), then a glug of milk, a good stir, teabag out, another thorough stir and bob’s your second cousin.
My husband loves my tea. Says I make the best tea he has ever had. I don’t know if that is a ploy to keep me making him tea.
He has to have something sweet with his tea. His favourite biscuit is the chocolate chip shortbread. Mine is a viennese whirl. Yum. Or a viennese chocolate finger.
My mum likes to dunk chocolate digestives in tea.
When we were small, she would give us a biscuit and we could dunk it in her tea.
‘Can I dip my biscuit in your tea?’ we would ask, whenever we saw her sit down with a mug.
How do you like your tea? And do you have something to go with it? Do you like tea with company? Or a book? Or a scenic scene? Or just by yourself on a sunny afternoon or raining evening?
Ocean Bream 
I like my ‘brew’ in the quiet of the morning. Ahhhh. 🙂
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Sounds like the freshest time for a brew 🙂
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Too true. 🙂
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Tea is ‘best’ in many forms ;). I like early morning when no one else is awake. Simply brewed. No milk. I like evening, with a shortbread/hard cookie (biscuit). I have different teas for iced tea, feeling poorly, etc. But the best is a good cup of Irish Breakfast Tea. 🙂
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I love it, Colleen. A tea for every mood! I always view tea with no milk as being something very classy. My cousin who is a bit posh has earl grey, black, with a slice of lemon. I have never tried Irish breakfast, and now have to! Our favourite in my house is English breakfast, I wonder what the difference is between them. Thanks for sharing tea, your way 🙂
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You’re welcome OB. I can truthfully say I am the least posh person alive. I can tell the difference between English and Irish morning tea. But I couldn’t explain it. I love a good cuppa 😉
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Cheers to that! 🙂
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I just call it tea too, Lenora. And I doubt my tea is made properly since it never comes out the same way twice. We really only drink it in the winter to warm up on a cold afternoon or evening. Someday I’ll head to the UK and have a proper cup of tea. 🙂
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That made me chuckle, that its never come out the same way twice! They do say though that great cooks can never make a dish the same way twice 🙂 I hope you do head over to the UK to have a proper cup of tea. If you ever head up North, I would be very happy to welcome you for one 🙂
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Well, once we know what our plans are, it’s a date. ❤ It's a huge adventure for us, so lots of research and planning required. We're at the age where we're trying to make the most of each trip, because there's a good chance we won't be back for another.
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I can imagine it will be! I think it’s best policy to make the most of any trip. Best of luck, the UK and Europe in general have much to offer 🙂 Possibly not as rich as the vast and varied scenery of the US, but there is a charm here I think that I haven’t seen elsewhere.
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Of course there is. Europe has so much history pervading it’s scenery (including its villages and cities). I love that sense of the past in the present. And it has castles! Lol We don’t have castles here, Lenora. ❤ ❤
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YES! I was saying this to my husband recently. I adore the old ancient villages, especially in places like the Cotswolds and the Lake District… but then you go to cities like Manchester and London and you see all the old gothic architecture and behind, the sleek metallic buildings of the modern age. The past always pervades the present, and it does wonders to your brain. Ahh, yes castles 😀 Scotland is great for castles, I hear 🙂
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I plan to visit for at least 3 weeks. I want to see as much as I can since it may be my one chance. 🙂
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That sounds like a good amount of time, Diana! We traversed the North of the UK on a road trip in about 2.5 weeks. We did stay longer in certain areas, but I am pretty sure you could pop by all the most important sites in 3 weeks. 🙂
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What I really want to do is stay a couple of months! Lol
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That would be ideal 🙂
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I don’t drink tea as often as coffee I think because I like two sugars in tea but I don’t like sugar in coffee so I drink more of it because tea feels like a treat that I only have now and the. But anyway when I do drink it I like it strong, two teabags strong and a glug of milk and it must be nice and hot.
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Nice and hot! You nailed it with that. Nice, hot, sweet tea. It certainly is a treat. Thanks for stopping by and sharing how you like to have your tea 🙂
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