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Can never have too much tea!!

Two images of teat time in the Blitz.

Making tea in the trenches WW1

I have a horror of loose leaf tea. Being English we children were given tea in our feeding bottles as babies. Terribly unsmart now, but back in the day, parents drank tea and thought it normal to start little ones on tea from about 6 months old. I have a vague memory of how the loose leaves...

My reaction to my husband drinking my tea, well I think I was speechless really. I don't don't think I reacted at all. One would never make a scene, this is England after all!

I have always found that the birth celebrations and presents reduce proportionately to the number of children you have. With the first one it is all cards, roses and boxes of handmade chocs from a fabulously expensive and exclusive shop. By the last one it is carry your own suitcase to the car...

English breakfast tea reminds me of the birth of my youngest daughter. I was the midwife's last delivery before she went off duty and she was clearly on a mission. No sooner had she handed me the baby than she was scrubbing round my face with a wet flannel. Next she stuffed a toothbrush full of...

Camomile is certainly an aquired taste, one of those love it or hate it things. I agree, it is too 'herby' for me.

When I was a kid there was a soft drink sold in big glass bottles called dandelion and burdock. My cousin loved it. I can't remember the taste though? Just looked it up and it's still available it definitely isn't a tea though.

A company called Betjemen and Barton, in Paris sell this tea I think. They do export it all over the world.

I am getting a bit confused here. Tea should be just made of tea leaves, no additives. Clearly, mint tea is made of mint leaves etc., but the only thing added to tea leaves is the additions we ourselves make when we 'brew up'. If you have the chance, go along to a proper tea merchants where they...

I'm just sipping my scalding hot tea now. Nothing fancy, just a plain Indian blend. Indian tea has a more robust and less flowery note than China tea. It is what i think of as everyday tea. Chamomile tea is an acquired tasts and if you have been put off by trying it, do give other flavours a...

You can never have too much tea!!!

All plumbing was made of lead before the advent of plastics. I well remember seeing my father repair a lead water pipe which supplied the house. It was said that in hard water areas the pipes soon became lined with limescale that protected the supply to some extent. In areas of the country where...

To keep loose tea fresh you need to store in an airtight box. Traditionally, in England we use a tin. Often, at Christmas time you can buy loose tea, even tea bags in beautifully decorated tins. These are in most department stores in the gift department. Keep the tin as your 'tea caddy' when you...

Tto make tea using loose leaf do the following. Firstly you need a teapot, but at a pinch a coffee pot will do. Boil freshly drawn water and pour sufficient into the pot to warm it. Drain the pot and put into it a heaped teaspoon of tea for every person and one additional one (one for the...

I am English and tea is a central part of life. I have at least 8 cups a day. My day is punctuated by pauses to 'have a cuppa'. It the first thing one asks visitors, 'would you like some tea?' It is the first thing one turns to in a crisis. Having captured a group of German soldiers at El...