Tea in a pot with a teacosy anyone? (lighthearted thread)

I use the teapot when there`s more than one person for tea, otherwise it`s a teabag in the mug. I always used loose leaf tea until we moved into a touring caravan temporarily (it lasted 15 months!), so then teabags were more practical, but just never went back to loose tea. I used to use Hornimans and save the stamps off the packet.
When I got married, my grandma gave me a sort of double spoon thingy with a spring action, it had little holes in it and was for putting tea in and brewing in the cup, she used it a lot, but I never have, it`s still in my kitchen drawer though.

Tea bag in a mug here Mr P doesn't drink tea, and I only have I cup/mug a day, first thing in the morning.

But putting the milk in before the water that is wrong, wrong, wrong!

Regarding getting rid of tea leaves. I'm lucky enough to now have a garden, albeit a tiny one, so leaves go on the garden as a mulch or in the food waste bin if it's bucketting down outside. Before I had a garden they went down the loo, never the sink.

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My fairy house tea cosy. I made it to fit the bone China teapot that was part of a prize I won here on Gransnet

MamaCaz FANTASTIC! Well done and what creativity! I bet your grandchildren love it and want tea from the fairy pot.

I really wish I could take credit for the design, giulia, but I'm not that clever. It was someone else's pattern, with just a few twists of my own added here and there in the trimmings.

That’s beautiful Mama! ???

MamaCaz Well, I couldn't have done it in a month of Sundays.

" Well, I couldn't have done it in a month of Sundays. "

I love that expression, giulia - I still use it sometimes, but don't think I have ever heard the next generation using it

MamaCaz Well, we're a couple of old fogeys then, aren't we!

We were given a 1 pint Old Hall stainless steel teapot as a wedding present in 1962 and it has been in daily use since. It does perfectly for two (bone China) mugs. We have over the years acquired 1.5 and 2 pint versions of this wonderful design classic and they are in regular use. We also have two inherited silver pots which rarely see the light of day unless we are trying to look civilised - which we have rather given up.

These days tea bags of various flavours mean that family members’ disparate tastes can be catered for. It was much easier in the distant past when it was Typhoo or nothing!