very week, it seems, there is a dire warning about food, drink or habits that are bad for you. One minute red wine and chocolate are good for your health, the next they’re not. It team and was blown away to find that I am not alone in my obsession. For Jude, tea is synonymous with her lovely late dad, Lawrence, who, during her teenage years, would wake her at 7.45am each day with a freshly made cuppa. Sarah’s first memory of tea drinking was having weak tea with milk and sugar in a sippy cup. ‘Tea is such a big part of our family life,’ she said, adding that they’re a ‘two tea bag family’, as one just isn’t strong enough. Which prompted Lisa to recall her mum-in-law trying to eke out two cups from the same bag. ‘And we call my mum, Val, a tea bag,’ she laughed. ‘When the pressure is on, mum is like a tea bag in boiling water – she flourishes.’ For all of us, a nice cup of tea is a catch cry for moving into a calmer state. It’s just one of those things that makes life better!
