Good cup of tea

Can't abide tea on the Continent where they bring you a cup of hot water and the tea bag is just placed in the saucer.
They have absolutely no idea.

I drink tea throughout the day, probably far too much of it. I might keep a count tomorrow - could well be in for a .
Mostly it's ordinary everyday tea, medium strength, no sugar, dash of milk. But I also drink Earl Grey and Lady Grey (the perfumier the better!), flavoured green teas (my favourites are green tea with echinacea or orange) and chamomile tea when I'm feeling a little stressed.
I wish I liked peppermint tea, because it is so good for the digestive system (and mine could do with some help ), but I just cannot stand the stuff.

Has to be loose leaf - I find that Sainsburys Gold is very good and nothing beats weak black tea with a slice of lemon on a hot summer day .

For me, timing is of the essence. First thing in the morning has to be tea, maybe 2 but there are other times of day when I move on to coffee-after breakfast, mid morning, after lunch. By 4 I am ready for tea again right up to before supper when of course the T is joined by a splash of G.
Tea is obviously what one drinks in a crisis, although a drop of the hard stuff is sometimes called for.
Finally, it always amuses me when my German friend collapse in a chair after a busy afternoon and announce they are "gasping for their coffee"!

I have just enjoyed my first cup of tea in weeks. Went right off tea and coffee when I started a virus, and have only just gone back on it. Waitrose Gold here. Teabags, due to laziness.

Still can't face coffee.

mrsmopp I agree! (about that lot on the continent )

We always take proper tea and a travel kettle with us when we go abroad. And though I rarely drink coffee at home, that's the only beverage I trust in them forrin cafés

Like Alea, my daily beverages follow a pattern....Tea in a very large black and white spotted mug first thing, followed by a smaller mug with breakfast which has Tea written down the side. Mid morning I have coffee in my 'chicken' mug. I am slightly OCD about my mugs!!

Afternoon tea is in a pink mug with 'Crisis management' written on the side and then it's a posh black mug for my coffee after dinner.

I also have fancy glasses for cappuccino and latte (weekend treat)

DH, as you may have guessed, loves to annoy me by sitting opposite me drinking coffee out of a mug marked TEA.

My mother has drunk vodka in her tea for many years. Maybe it should become a flavour for alcoholic mothers?

I drink decaff tea and coffee. Mostly tea, nothing like that first sip in a morning and the one before bed. Mmmm... lovely. I wonder what they drunk before tea?

There is a tally of cups of tea drunk in the UK count on UK Tea and Infusions website. It currently stands at over 110,288,000 up to now today.

The Chancellor can make changes, but don't he dare take our tea!!!

@NanKate -- "Feetlebaum you are a grandfather of refinement! I like your style." Not quite - I never got past being a step-father!

I didn't drink tea at all for many years. Then I contacted someone I had known when we were boys together, and schoolmates. It turned out "that his career had been working as that Imperial stereotype, a tea planter! Pshaw! Country's goin' to the demnition bow-wows..." Sort of thing.

Then I had some new windows, and I bought tea-bags and Jammy Dodgers for the horny-handed young toilers. When they had gone there were still quite a lot of bags - so I thought I would try them. OK That wasn't too bad... so let's try doing it properly. Ah! That's quite nice! And that's where I am today. I usually stick to the Assam, although I'll occasionally get all delicate and try Darjeeling again - but it doesn't have the robust flavour I prefer.

You are still very welcome here Feetlebaum.