That first morning cup of tea.

Hot water and lemon rots your teeth

I like PG Tips loose tea brewed in a pot with an integral strainer.
Waking up has never been easy for me so I’m very grateful that my early bird husband brings me a cup in bed.

It would be interesting to hear about how Gransnetters feel about, and plan for, their future “twilight” years. Does anyone consider living in an annexe connected to a dear son or daughter’s home?

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It would be interesting to hear about how Gransnetters feel about, and plan for, their future “twilight” years. Does anyone consider living in an annexe connected to a dear son or daughter’s home?

May be you could start a new thread. I think you would get lots of replies to this.

Tea is my first drink and I have one before I do anything.,It has to be Yorkshire and not too strong,sugarless and hot.
Sometimes I'll have a biscuit with it .
Later , I'll have another tea with French toast.
Occasionally I'll have porridge with honey.

Gosh,yes.I need 2 cups of strong assam tea first before i can get moving.Assam teabag tea.Lovely.

I am a yorkshire lass but now live Lancashire But i cant stand yorkshire tea, i think its weak & wishy-washy.

Love an early morning cup of tea along with a couple rich tea lights…M&S gold teabags I have. Strong with a splash of milk.

I had a hysterectomy when I was 27 and when they started dishing tea out before bedtime it was weak. Fantastic for I but as we recovered I was moved down the ward and the tea became increasingly strong, bitter and disgusting. This was over 40 years ago and my tea has now, and has been since then, like dishwater.

stewaris That was around the time I had my first baby. It was a week in hospital then and we weren't allowed tea at bedtime. It was one of the many things that was supposed to be bad for the baby. We had hot chocolate instead, which I loathed. They made it with hot water instead of hot milk for me but I still hated it.

I now have tea made with Clipper Tea Bags and a slice of toast and marmalade in the morning. Until recently it was Yorkshire Tea. For Years i used to use PG Tips, but I don't like the taste of it now.

Cup of tea as soon as I come downstairs; say good morning to Alexa while the kettle is boiling.
Sainsbury's extra strong teabags, and just a splash of milk. Always make my tea in a pot, cannot bear teabag in a mug. Just doesn't taste right.
And I'm happy!

I love Sainsbury’s Red Label tea but also like Clipper. A nice big mug first thing and then more -probably too much -throughout the day. I loathe coffee but tea is the stuff of the gods.

Haven't drunk tea in 40 years, I'm a coffee girl

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I haven't drunk tea since I was 10 years old. To me it tastes like sucking copper pennies, I really don't know how anyone can even get it past their lips. Afraid my day starts with the first of a host of medications.

Perhaps your medications have affected your taste?

I can't face coffee in the morning, it has to be tea (Yorkshire) and coffee later at about 11 am.

No, it's definitely not that. I never liked it, as a child I always had to have it half and half milk, I had to have the first cup out of the pot so basically it was little more than hot water, and then I had to have lots of sugar in it, anything to try and mask the taste of the tea. When I was 10 my mum finally gave up and let me have coffee instead. Always black coffee with no sugar, I did lose the taste for coffee when I had chemo some years ago but I got over that, could never get over my distaste for te.

A small glass of orange, then some kind of cereal and a lovely cup of decaff tea usually Tetleys. I am not really a coffee drinker by choice but my husband adores coffee so have a couple of cups whilst catching up with the papers. Mornings wouldn't be the same without that first cuppa and it has to be in my blue mug which is years old.

I have tea first thing in the morning, strongish, but never when I’m away, then it’s always coffee. Unless I’m staying with my DD and she brings me a cup made just as I like it.

I get two mugs out of one teabag, with a bit of “mashing” and put a little honey in it for my singer’s throat.
Not keen on food first thing unless in an hotel, when I like everything that’s going.

Tea on an empty stomach makes me sick. First cup is usually at teatime 😃

I used to be addicted to coffee first thing- strong and black.

Now I'm on a health kick I start my day with a cup of warm water from the kettle.

I do a few jobs around the house before having breakfast with a cup of black tea.

This is followed by a cup of coffee, still strong and black but mid-morning- or I wait if I'm meeting someone.

I like the way this breaks up my morning. I do hate it when we run out of coffee though- so still addicted I suppose!

It’s the only time I really appreciate tea! And it has to be hot, if I am distracted, eg by GN and it cools down, it is usually left undrunk.

I'm am not a tea drinker, I drink black coffee But, I have been told I make an excellent cup of tea. Both of my sons and a work colleague drink 'builders tea'. The spoon can almost stand up on it's own it's so strong.

Clipper white tea, no milk, and a thick oatcake with thick cut marmalade. A filter coffee with hot milk mid morning, water at lunchtime, teatime and bedtime.

Never drink tea if I have a choice, have never really liked it. If I do have any it has to be strong.
I have a coffee at around 6am when I get up and another mid morning (just made one for today) and that's usually my lot. I then drink water during the day, may have a glass of wine in the evening.
My OH drinks tea, many cups through the day.

I love tea!
Gold teabags from M&S, black and strong, DH has his as strong with a splash of milk, the only way to start the day.

We usually have percolated coffee around 11, then tea for the rest of the day.

I too love my first cuppa (Tetley decaf) and a bowl of porridge with blueberries after my little diva has had her garden visit and her breakfast. I noticed on Youngerthanspringtime’s post she mentioned not having caffeinated drinks or anything to eat for an hour after taking Thyroxine. I take thyroxine and am interested to know if that is the norm or something she has been advised to do. I haven’t heard of this.
Also does anyone else have to sign in every time they want to post. I’ve ticked
‘Stay logged in’but I’m not.

The only tea I buy is M&S own-brand red label. I dislike Yorkshire tea, and any of the “gold” tea, I’ve never tried decaffeinated tea. I often get an opaque film on top of the mug, and remove the teabag with a tea strainer to get the film out as well. It doesn’t happen with any coffee, nor with fruit teas, and it doesn’t correlate to whether the kettle needs descaling, but it’s tiresome. Easier to make instant coffee instead (always M&S, red label, fantastic value at £1.20 a jar)!

I’ll drink coffee with any milk, but tea has to have skimmed or semi skimmed.