just been on their site and there's no mention of 'lady londonderry' tea. I've dropped them a mail to see what's going on...

Dave, you rock! Thanks

I've never acquired a taste for tea (except 'lemon tea' when I'm suffering from a cold), and am apparently allergic to something (not the caffeine) in coffee... Cocoa, on the other hand...

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"Some days I diet, other days (including this one :-) they serve lasagne."

I started drinking coffee rather than tea because I didn't have to wait around in the kitchen for it to brew. I could go straight back upstairs to my bedroom with my coffee and cake/biscuits. About the only time I drink tea now is when I visit my friend, Iain Beswick, who doesn't have coffee in. Iain warms the teapot first and leaves the teabags to stew for about 10- 20 minutes while he talks.

Tried a couple of herbal teas and simply couldn't get on with them.

I like pretty much anything that can be brewed, strangely enough. I'll have instant coffee white with none, proper coffee black with none, Earl Grey tea has to be black with maybe a slight pinch of sugar, and normal black tea will be white with one. Everyone thinks I'm nuts for having sugar in tea but not in coffee, which I can't understand.

Green tea is nice from time to time (especially Twinings Iced Green Tea with Lemon).

I used to switch to herbal infusions for exam periods as caffeine makes you go all randomly-minded and doesn't help you concentrate. I can warn everyone off lemon and ginger, and camomile too - if I want to drink soap, I'll use fairy liquid. The best bit about herbal stuff was going back to quadrupal espressos as soon as the exams were over...



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I don't like regular tea, but I love the herbal ones - to be more precise, the fruity herbal ones. My favourite flavour is pear and guava, which I think is absolutely wonderful. PSD notwithstanding, I like lemon and ginger too, but one caveat about all these various teas is that to my mind they are no good without a spoonful of honey. I never sweeten any other drink (no, not even cocoa), so I think it may be safely said that herb teas on their own are pretty bitter.

I have now just about trained Minsky not to come miaowing passionately round my ankles every time I make a cup of herb tea ("gimme the honey, mummy"!)



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Yeah, but lemon and ginger? It's like swallowing emeryboards washed down with perfume...

Best bet is to sweeten it with honey. Recipe: Brew lemon and ginger tea. In sperate cup pour honey. Drink honey. Depart kitchen. Watch something good on TV. Return. See cup of vile liquid. Use vile liquid to unblock sink.

I sweeten herbal teas too, depending on the flavour. There's a really nice vanilla one with strawberry, I think. Elderflower and blackberry is also very nice.



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I love ginger in any form. In fact I tend to chew pieces of crystallised ginger on long car journeys to help prevent feelings of queasiness.



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I'm moderately allergic to ginger. It gives me a sore throat, itchy/stuffy nose and serious acid indigestion. Which is a bummer because I love gingerbread, gingersnaps and pumpkin pie with ginger. Oh well!

:-(

That's rough.



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I can just tolerate a bit of ginger, but the heat producing spices like chile, paprika and curry really burn me. Can't eat them at all

Tea has to be earl grey, strong enough to sing into and with lemon for me.
And also 4 spoons of sugar. That is nice tea, but it has to be drunk whilst one is eating toast with marmite (not a plug from the TMB)

Also, is Dave being accused of having granite tendancies? Or of being unstable, or of being a good dancer? I may have missed earlier elements to the statement; "Dave you rock"

*whap* Sounds of the keyboard attacking in self-defence. My mother's computer hates puns.

Sorry, I have to go now. The pun police are coming to take me away..



My reality check has just bounced again.......

OOOOOOK!!!!! She's back!! can it be? (Hi Ook!)

PS, Dave, you rock! means that he is the coolest, greatest, most wonderful person...but you probably really did know that. Just thought I'd play along! LOL

"I can just tolerate a bit of ginger..."

I know what you mean. I prefer Mary Ann or the Professor.

Regarding Earl Grey...

I know the Earl is from Newcastle way as Grey's monument is the same fella. However, does anyone (PSD perhaps) know if Grey college in Durham is anything to do with the tea chap ?

Yes, it is. He was Prime Minister when the University received its Charter, though the college itself wasn't built until the 1950s.

Cheers mate.

My esteemed colleague (Neville Chamberlain's nephew) is going to be the master there come Spetember. Hence my query.

I have my uses. Some of them are even legal.

Is it hometime yet? I've had enough of today already. It's cold, wet and miserable. And I'm hungry. Time for some chocolate.

Grey college is notable for at least two other things, too. One of them is the rather fine firework display they organise every year, and which legend has it has burnt down the college at least once. The other is for being the most militant Durham College. They passed a motion a couple of years ago that the JCR should invest in a tank...



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A fine idea. They could have a lovely display of tropical fish in it.



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